Re: [DML] Detroit, US government, and DeLorean

[Jake Kamphoefner <jakekamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Marc, 
 
Those are good points, and I should probably clarify.  I don't deny the pressures you mention below (regardless of who paid for them), but the cars were not selling as quickly as their production rate by 1982.  I attribute this to a bad market, and it's not John's fault.
 
I think we can all agree that what happened after it was all over is a shame.
 
For those whose feathers were ruffled by that sentence in my last post, go back an re-read the last paragraph of what I wrote as that was the point I was really making.
 
Jake
(Gotta monitor the list closely after making a post to keep the flames at a smolder)
 


Marc Levy <malevy_nj@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


This is a matter of opinion.

JZD had a lot of forces working against him. Most of
it was financed by Detroit (IMHO).

Thatcher pulled the British funding, and Thatcher was
good buddies with Regan, who was funded by Detroit.

Similar political pressure was likely used to entrap
JZD in the drug deal.

The shame is, thousands of jobs were lost and the
man's (JZD) reputation was destroyed all in the
interest of profit for a group of private companies
with a lot of money in Washington.... Meanwhile the
American *AND* British taxpayers had to foot the bill
all to protect the profits of Detroit.

--- Jake Kamphoefner wrote:
> 
> -Detroit and the US government had nothing to do
> with putting DMC out of business. The market did.
>


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