Hi All 80 Mill would be about 640 mill in todays money. I paid tax in 1980 and it was monet well spent...... look at what the white elephants the goverment is spending money on today!!!!!!! Like the Dome, how much was that. Thet delorean factory did not have railway built to get workers there. Kevin #5959 -----Original Message----- From: Dan [mailto:danielpwillis@xxxx] Sent: 17 September 2003 15:24 To: doc-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [doc] Re: Ammunition for shows?? ..to which some would retort that that is "today" money.. what would the £80 million be today? AND even if you could retort with this they'd no doubt turn round and say... "Well JZD is still in prison so it's different" Because they don't listen. Ever. ;oP Dan Porsche 911 "claire_usher71" <claire@xxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > I dont know about you, but I get really fed up at shows of people > going on about the amount of money the government of the time poured > into to DeLorean project and trying to justify the cars existence. > > I often quote 'and what about British Leyland' when people say this, > but I've done some research this afternoon and come up with the > following which you can feel free to quote when you get jibes about > taxpayers money: > > Railtrack - £2 billion + > > Channel Tunnel and Rail-link - £9 billion + > > Millennium Dome - £940 million > > British Aerospace - £500 million > > I'm sure there are plenty more, but it doesnt make the money invested > into DeLorean look too significant now, does it? > > Smug Claire > #2292 'Flopsy' Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT DOC UK Website: www.delorean.co.uk Unsubscribe: doc-uk-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ** Unless otherwise stated, all messages posted to the group are assumed public and may be printed in the club magazine ** Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]