[DeTomaso] My solution to the automaker problems

[Ed Pike]

This might be a dumb question and a little off topic but how does that Insight do in about 8 inches of snow?

Ed...




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From: "wkooiman at earthlink.net" <wkooiman at earthlink.net>
To: Kerry Maguire <kmaguire at landrovermiramar.com>; detomaso at realbig.com
Sent: Tuesday, December 9, 2008 6:44:50 PM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] My solution to the automaker problems

My Honda Insight was $20K.

The design is pretty simple.  It's basically a 3-cylinder with electric boost.

I have a hard time believing they're not making money on this car.  It is cheap cheap cheap.  The dash looks nice.  The rest looks like major econo-box.  It's well built, don't get me wrong.  It's just that if it weren't a hybrid, it would be a $12K car.

(still getting 70+mpg on the highway)

-----Original Message-----
>From: Kerry Maguire <kmaguire at landrovermiramar.com>
>Sent: Dec 8, 2008 8:00 PM
>To: detomaso at realbig.com
>Subject: [DeTomaso]  My solution to the automaker problems
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>I read that at a suggested MSRP of $40K, GM would still lose money on
>the Volt. 
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>It has recently come to light from an ex Toyota executive that the
>Japanese Government secretly paid several hundreds of millions of
>dollars of development costs of the Prius.
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>Hybrid cars just do not pencil financially and I say this as a Prius
>owner.
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>Regards,
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>Kerry M. Maguire
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