Re: [DML] John Delorean is not a failure???

[Bob Brandys <oehcs@xxxx>]

JZD challenged big business in America, Just like Tucker did. They got rid of
Tucker the same way they got rid of John, by false legal charges. They
litigated both men into bankruptcy.

John tried to avoid the easy corruption and collution that got Tucker by
producing the car abroad. BUT by the 80s, big business in America had finally
been able to control the American president. (Reagan) (they have even more
control now over Bush).


Reagan had England and Thatcher change the laws to force DMC into bankruptcy.
They changed the law only for the DMC company so that they could no longer book
the value of cars sold to dealers, they had to be sold to private parties.
They went from $5,000,000 in the black to $15,000,000 in the red just by passing
a single new law to destroy DMC.

Worse yet, It cost the British tax payers more money to put 8000 workers on
unemployment than to keep DMC open. Did this make any sense other than
corruption of politicians by big business.

John's idea of a 25 year warranteed vehicle scared the @$&* out of Detroit.
They conducted a study of what it would cost to produce a 20 year car (See
article in Popular Science) and found out that the manufacturing cost would
double. (The major reason cars cost so much today, is that Detroit now builds
cars that easily last 20 years, but you pay the extra money, with the DMC you
would not have had to do this. )

John built a 25 year car for the same price. as Detroit's 10 year cars cost. He
would have killed them in the market place.

America is no longer a free enterprise system and has not been since 1980.

Bob

PS, If you think the free enterprise system let Bill Gates get rich, remember
who his first contract was with that let him control the PC operating system
IBM!!!