[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
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>> Sent: sA!bado, 9
> de mayo de 2015 11:45
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>> 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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