AC to Build Cars in Connecticut

derek — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 09:40:25 EST

heard this on the radio this morning. I would love to see them succeed (and let those 141 people in CT get to keep those new jobs) but how does it make sense that a $20k car convinced them that selling $90-150k cars was a good idea. good luck. Then again, my father does have a new mini and a cobra (replica) so I could be wrong.

derek

AC to Build Cars in Connecticut

Robert Farago — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 08:41:59 EST

I haven't checked in with AC for a while, but the last time I looked they were busy going out of business. It might have had something to do with their overpriced, under-engineered carbon fiber replicas; or the LNG Cobra coupe (!), or Caroll Shelby's lawsuit, or the fact that they couldn't compete with themselves (i.e. the dozens of top notch US Cobra replica companies). The US website (www.accarsus.com) has no news of this development, and takes great pains to point out that they don't sell completed cars. [NB: Having driven a Mustang-engined, Cobra CRS, I heartily recommend that you don't go there.] I wonder if this new venture will continue to use bodies made in South Africa, and how they convinced Connecticut to cut them so much slack with such a checkered financial past... As the Brits say, this one is bound to end in tears.

Robert Farago

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AC to Build Cars in Connecticut

AC to Build Cars in Connecticut