Understood Claude, this does make total sense. But it would still mean that no exact system would be in place to prevent these cars from comming to market. Which if this was the same situation that DMC was in at the time, it makes everything click. Keep these cars around for employees to use, so they wouldn't need to dip into the production line, so they could start filling those dealer orders. And if DMC would have had any concerns about these cars beeing as reliable/safe as the production line models, that may be why a memo exists stating that these vehicles are to have no warranty coverage what so ever. Just a thought... -Robert vin 6585 "X" --- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "fivetwofive" <CBL302@xxxx> wrote: > What stops the car manuf.from selling off those cars is Lialibity > lawsuits,That is the reason Ferrari has a huge Ferrari junkyard of > perfect(and very expensive)Ferrari's piled one on top of the > other.They will NOT even sell a shifter nob off any of those pre- > production cars.It is a combination of not wanting to put in the > hands of the general public a car that Might have unengineered > problems,that could cause a major problem.and the FACT that those > cars are put into EXTREME testing,that could make those cars unsafe > for general public use,and if, one of those cars got into the general > public,and caused a major accident---well guess who would be involved > in a major ligitation/lawsuit.Mostly the courts would award a > judgement award and a major pumitive damage award,knowing,the the car > manufaucturing company released a "unsafe car". > > Claude 00570