[Elantra GT] Elantra_gt Digest, Vol 28, Issue 5

[Mark S. Hankins]

 >>  wmoses at houston.rr.com wrote:

 >>  It sounds like vintage Malcom Bricklin alright. Considering the wild 
 >>  claims he made for his last two automotive ventures and 
 >>  how...umm...successful...<cough> they turned out, I'm not holding my 
 >>  breath that any of it will actually happen. The amazing thing is that he 
 >>  actually conned the Chinese into letting him become their importer!

Bricklin first brought Subaru to the U.S., then he actually produced his own high-
tech gullwing sports car years before deLorean did so. Then he brought in the Yugo,
which despite the derision with which it was met did not fail in the marketplace (which largely accepted the disposable sh*tbox as acceptable value for the money), but was waylaid by war (its factory having been converted to munitions production). Then he maintained U.S. availability of the Fiat 124 Spyder and the X 1/9, both popular models, as the Pininfarina Azura and the Bertone XL for several years after Fiat pulled out. Finally, he was involved in an unsuccessful effort
to reintroduce to the U.S. cars produced by Zastava (the erstwhile maker of the Yugo) as "ZMW"s. The man's been doing a credible job at uphill battles all his life. Chery looks like a 2-foot putt.