Re: Conversion Concept Ideas

[billglic@juno.com]

Except the Force only has about a 40 mile range.
Not worth $ 30K, maybe $ 15K if that.

On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 01:58:20 -0400 "David Roden (Akron OH USA)"
<roden@ald.net> writes:
> On 22 Sep 2002 at 19:39, Dave Davidson wrote:
> 
> >  I believe that an
> > initial run of 1000 or so cars could sell at around $30,000 each 
> and would be
> > snapped up in a heartbeat.  
> 
> If that were the case, Solectria would have sold thousands of Forces 
> (which 
> sold at slightly over that price for part of the production run).  
> IMHO, 
> either the car has to be ~very~ nice at that price, or the price has 
> to be 
> lower.
> 
> Sheer writes:
> 
> > We need a small, ailing automaker which already sells a
> > chassis that is crash-spec'd for the US..
> 
> Daewoo might be a good choice.  GM has bought a controlling share, 
> but they 
> are still in trouble for several reasons.  Should GM cause problems 
> (not 
> likely at this stage), there's still an option -- I'm pretty sure 
> that GM 
> elected to NOT purchase their assembly plant in Poland.  (I'd have 
> to review 
> my news archives to make sure of that, though, so don't quote me.)
> 
> 
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