Re: [DML] DMC to be in a new PS2 game

["alex morgan" <mauibarber@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

So if I understand what your saying, then we would now consider Dodge and 
Chrysler to be European cars?  Because they are owned by Daimler Chrysler, 
they would be manufactured by a British company and as such be considered 
European cars?
Weren't there DMC offices in Europe as well?  I am also curious why you 
discount the funding source. I thought something like 3/4 of the money came 
from the British governement.  And it wasn't the U.S. that shut down the 
company, it was the brits.  Maybe I dont have my facts straight but I 
thought for sure that the british goverment owned a clear majority of the 
Delorean motor company.  I know that towards the end of 1982 JZD tried to 
hand over all his remaining rights to the DMC and they (brit gov) wouldnt 
take it.  If its an American company why would he hand over the remaing 
stock to the british goverment?  I believe if DMC was based in the US but a 
foreign entity owned the majority of the company it would not make it 
american.  The question is WHO IS THE DELOREAN MOTOR COMPANY?

""DeLorean Motor Company (or at least some reflexive affiliate)
>manufactured the car, and DMC was based in the US, so the car is an
>American car, by all standards.""

I would love to hear some more opinions about this.  I don't believe it to 
be an open and shut case.

>From: Jon Heese <dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [DML] DMC to be in a new PS2 game
>Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 02:37:32 -0500
>
>
>
>It really isn't a matter of opinion.  If a car is manufactured by an
>American company, it is an American car.  It really has nothing to do
>with where it is assembled or sourced, and even less to do with where
>the founder of the company resided or where the profits "went" to.
>
>You make a logical fallacy by discounting the Toyota comparison.  No one
>said that Toyotas are Japanese because they are built in America or that
>all of them are built in America. They said that they are Japanese *in
>spite* of the fact that some were built in America.
>
>DeLorean Motor Company (or at least some reflexive affiliate)
>manufactured the car, and DMC was based in the US, so the car is an
>American car, by all standards.
>
>Regards,
>Jon Heese
>
>alex morgan wrote:
> >
> > In my opinion I would consider it a british car.  Built in Ireland, 
>Funded
> > by Europe, European engine, and Italian designed.  Because JZD lived in 
>the
> > USA and had his main office there to me doesn't make it an American car. 
>  I
> > don't think the toyota argument stands up.  Because toyotas are ALSO 
>made in
> > Japan and Canada (and were exclusivly built in Japan for the first 20 
>years
> > or so.)  The cars were imported from Europe and the majority of 
>wholesale
> > profits went (or were supposed to go) to the Irish government. Just my
> > opinion.
> > Alex
> >
> >>From: Murray Fisher <murrayfw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>Reply-To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>Subject: Re: [DML] DMC to be in a new PS2 game
> >>Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 16:08:25 -0800
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>I have a hardback book entitled "Motor Makers in Ireland" by John
> >>Moore.   From Page 93 to page 103, they all claim the car was made in

>







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