Re: Perception

[adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Sandwich Maker)]

" From: "Mahoney, John" <jmahoney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
" 
" Perception is reality, in the sale of autos.  Perception can take up to ten
" years to change.  The question is, can American motors survive that long
" without, like Chrysler in the '80s or American Motors in the '60s, some sort
" of "outside" help.  Uncle Sam guaranteed loans to Lido; USPS bought
" Ambassadors: can GM and Ford avoid a repeat performance of Mopar and AMC?
" 
" (snip)
" And nobody noted the Detnews/Gohsn rewrite of AMC history?
" 
" "In 1987, Renault sold American Motors cheaply to Chrysler - which used the
" company to develop the hugely successful Jeep Cherokee, creating the new
" category of sport-utility vehicle."
" 
" Develop?  Cherokee?  Creating?  New?
" 
" 
" 
" Or maybe that's good enough for AMC. 

sigh.

that is rather bald-faced, claiming creation of something already in
its fourth year of production.

" From: "Jim Blair" <carnuck@xxxxxxxxxxx>
" 
" A: The claims I get all the time is that AMC ran the 4 cyl and crappy 
" underpowered V6, but Chryco put the 4.0L into the Jeep to make it successful 
" (since they didn't take over until after '87 model year, how would that be 
" true?)

yeah, this is stupid on the face of it.  didn't dc already have their
own 3.9 dakota v6 by then, or at least in the works?  why would they
pour $$ into reviving the amc inline and more money reengineering the
xj to cram it in when the 3.9 would be a drop kick?  and how could
they do all this anyway, the same year they took over?  even minimal
engineering has a lead time.

but i suppose those 'experts' are the same ones who 'know' amc got
their 360s from ford, or mopar...
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