[DeTomaso] New Detomasos to be built in China

Ed Mendez edducati at mac.com
Mon May 11 12:33:50 EDT 2015


Apparently this purchase was only for the newer DeTomaso cars that were built, post Pantera. I talked with Steve Wilkinson and he owns the DeTomaso name for Pantera and Mangusta, from what I understand.

Ed

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> On May 11, 2015, at 08:48, Boyd Casey <boyd411 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>   Personally I would not consider purchasing a car made in China. I saw
>   an episode of "Top Gear" where the three Brits went to China and
>   sampled a number of Cars manufactured in China. Some of the older ones
>   were a complete joke. The newer ones were all Knock offs (in
>   appearance) and while the quality was light years ahead of the older
>   cars A but still seemed to fall short of U.S. or European standards. I
>   have had my share of ChineseA Pantera parts A sold by one of our
>   vendors that were total crap A . One example was a clutch master
>   cylinder. It was represented as "made in Italy" but it was a very poor
>   copy that appeared to be made from a sand casting of an original. The
>   lettering was not crisp and clear (like an authentic one) and it
>   wouldn't work until I rebuilt it using some of the parts from the MC I
>   was replacing. So if that's any indication of the quality I don't think
>   you would even be able to get it up to US federal standards (DOT & EPA)
>   so if the new DeTomaso automobiles are made in China that may be the
>   only place you will see them.
>   A Bob Levitt travels to China on business fairly often. If DeTomaso
>   A production does ever come to fruition and they are manufactured in
>   China we will be able to get a first hand report on there quality from
>   Bob. A A
>   This is only speculation and my personal opinion.
>   Boyd
> 
>   On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 2:32 PM, Pantdino via DeTomaso
>   <[1]detomaso at poca.com> wrote:
> 
>     A  A I don't think they were actually working.
>     A  A Probably on unemployment until the new factory opened, but now
>     it never
>     A  A will so all hope is lost for them.
>     A  A Jim
>     A  A -----Original Message-----
>     A  A From: Carguy60 via DeTomaso <[2]detomaso at poca.com>
>     A  A To: Charles McCall <[3]charlesmccall at gmail.com>
>     A  A Cc: DeTomaso Mail List <[4]DeTomaso at poca.com>
>     A  A Sent: Sat, May 9, 2015 9:25 am
>     A  A Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] New Detomasos to be built in China
>     So what was the current workforce producing?A  Just curious.
>     Dennis Valdez
>     On May 9, 2015, at 5:56 AM, Charles McCall
>     <[1][5]charlesmccall at gmail.com> wrote:
>     I've read a few articles that implied the same - apparently the only
>     business
>     plan that was presented that involved maintaining the workforce and
>     production
>     in Italy was that presented by the Swiss, and that didn't come
>     through. This
>     implies that the other plans included delocalization.
>> 
>> IMO, delocalization
>     to China would be a huge mistake. I can understand buying the
>     DeTomaso name for
>     a million dollars, euros, whatever. To a certain extent, it is
>     somewhat
>     philosophical whose capital is behind a well-known name. As Julian
>     (I think)
>     said, Jaguar is owned by Indians,A  and while they may call the
>     shots the cars
>     are built in the same factories as before and are infused with
>     English culture.
>     Therefore they maintain much of the value of the name.
>> 
>> Designing and
>     manufacturing a supercar in China will also infuse the car with
>     Chinese culture.
>     Not sure how many customers they can lure away from Corvette,
>     Ferrari,
>     Lamborghini, etc to buy an all-Chinese car instead. It will have to
>     be very,
>     very, very good to overcome that stigma and partially defeats the
>     benefit gained
>     from buying an Italian name.
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: DeTomaso
>     [[2]mailto:[6]detomaso-bounces at poca.com] On Behalf Of Rob Dumoulin
>> Sent: sA!bado, 9
>     de mayo de 2015 11:45
>> To: DeTomaso Mail List
>> Subject: [DeTomaso] New
>     Detomasos to be built in China
>> 
>> Or so the article states
>     [3][7]http://europe.autonews.com/article/20150507/ANE/150509893?temp
>     late=mobile02
>> 
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