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dcdoug, YMMV is netspeak: Your Mileage May Vary. Meaning you might have a totally different, equally valid take on something.

There's an interesting parallel in the news today. Roger Penske was negotiating to pick up Saturn from GM. Last I heard, GM was going to continue to build the cars for the "new" maker until they got their own facilities in place, three or four years down the road. Now Penske has thrown in the towel because some OTHER maker declined to make a deal to build the cars for him. So... exactly what would Penske/Saturn have been, if Penske is just a manager and some hired factory (GM at first, then probably someone like Daewoo or Cherry) builds the cars? Call me really old fashioned, but I think cars are one thing that need to be built by whoever sells them, not shopped out like contract computers.

And, um, that goes double for exotics like "Shelbys." IMHO. YMMV.