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Originally posted by Mulv
Oh and AGRO, you are obviuosly unfamiliar with the manufacturing capabilities of SA. They are capable of very high quality products that last a long time. Heard of DeBeer's? Don't forget theywere cut off by the rest of the world and managed to keep a modern society going for years..... I guess you have the unfortunate misconception that the only people capable of making high quality products are from the northern hemisphere. One last shot - 500 horsepower is not really all that much in a light car, my previous commuter car had this much and weighed 3500 pounds. I never snapped the frame on that one either. I don't think of the frame as part of the drivelne, old chap.....
Mulv [/b]
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Mulv - pull your head out of your a$$ "chap". Just about any country IS "capable" of manufacturing high quality products - most do not. Don't get me wrong, SPF's are great. However, as FRANKYM stated, there are great design features and characteristics under the skin of the SPF; but there are also many places they use "poor choice hardware, or spotty welding or inferior guage steel etc."...So, yeah they CAN make a high quality product otherwise I wouldn't have bought one - but IMO they skimp on stuff they shouldn't - like dif. mounting...Kind of an inportant component don't ya think ?
Also, here in the US, we have higher standards for manufacturing and welding and use of certain quality steel componets - in SA they do not. That is why they can build a Cobra replica at the price point they do and still make money. If it were built in the US, it would cost as much as probably an ERA or a Shelby, or somewhere in between.
One more thing, remember WHY SA was cut off from the rest of the world buddy, it wasn't because they were a freedom loving nation like us here in North America...And furthermore, DeBeers mines diamonds and sends them to Israel to be cut, they don't manufacture anything smartguy. Good old Mother Earth produces those "high quality" diamonds you referred to, the DeBeers group just plucks them out...Get your facts straight.
