Mr. Owen,
I understand your conerns about this being a "non supportive" forum. However, what support or input has AC provided to it up to the point of your posting?
I must admit upfront that I have "issues" with AC as it currently exists and I agree that you should not indulge in a discourse with someone who does not want to hear what you say. If requested by yourself or the administrator, I will refrain from any future posting on this subject, I think that is fair enough. Please don't deprive others here of your input due to my views.
While I have met you, and had limited interaction with yourself, you were a gentleman and I understand that your hands were tied at the time so that many communications to yourself went unanswered.
However, to come to this site and state that you will not publiclly post information is a dis-service to the many who frequent this site as well as giving the image that AC has "something to hide."
Is there a certain level of doubt here (and on several other related boards)...for sure! The press releases of the previous years (ranging from the Swiss business school that was to make AC a graduate project to the Conn. "factory" announcement) have caused most to look at any information coming from AC with a grain of salt at best, with laughter and derision at worst. Perhaps this is an opportunity to reverse some of that image.
Going through three US distributors in the last two years without ever really getting any product out in the field has not helped the image. Perhaps the best business model would be to, as JBottini taught me many years ago, "underpromise and overdeliver."
I hope the firm will survive to keep parts available for years to come, I just question if AC will ever really be an auto manufacturer ever again.
Again, please don't let me keep you off this site...just say the word and I shall cease posting.
Regards,
Rick