<VV> "3 More Years of Corvair"

[Charles Lee at Proper Pro Per]

So, therefore GM kept producing Corvairs so as not to appear as though they 
were capitulating to
Nadir. (Pun intended.)

... and to avoid the litigious unwashed from using it against GM, to boot.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Murphy" <m.j.murphy at comcast.net>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 8:10 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> "3 More Years of Corvair"


> Five-year depreciation/amortization of the tooling.  Has to be in use to
> be depreciated.
>
> Jeff Clark wrote:
>
>> The cost of losing those lawsuits (and the resultant
>> bad publicity) would have been far more than the money
>> GM was losing by continuing Corvair production,
>> so...........  The only logical conclusion as to why
>> GM continued to build it well past any "point of least
>> return" is to withold that
>> "see-we-TOLD-you-it-was-unsafe!" claim from the
>> plaintiffs.  I just can't come up with any better
>> reason than that- can you?
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