Bob,
Hopefully we're not drifting so far as to have hijacked this thread...
Ford addressed the suspension issue with the GT promptly and openly. I believe the President of the company tod the press he was disgusted that anyone who paid $160,000 or more for a car should have their purchase subject to a recall. As best I've learned, the dealers followed through with their share of the responsibility.
I don't know of any business that is subject to the intensity of unforgiving criticism we are comfortable directing at auto manufacturers, dealers and auto repair shops. I don't deny that cars have been poorly designed and built or that dealers have behaved unprofessionally and shops have taken advantage of customers' ignorance of their specialty. But I think our quickness to anger when dealing with any portion of the industry is also a reflection of how much we depend on the car to support how we live. Having a car is not worth comment until something goes wrong and then the criticism is severe and almost unredeemable. Cars should be listed with clean air, electricity and water as basic to survival and so treated as a public utility rather than an opportunity for profit.
Now that I've typed that last line I realize I'm on a tangent so I'll stop.
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A beautiful car, precisely assembled. Unfortunately I don't fit. Sold it after four hundred miles. Well, at least now I know a Cobra is not a car I can own.
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