[mrmustang]

Gary,

As one of the people who visited SCOF last month, I did not imply anything, I read a few threads in which people where discussing quality issues with the SPF vs others, and made my own observations based on the comments of a few "groupies". I read some other threads at SCOF, and saw other people acting the same way. I did not imply anything evil, I stated facts. Nothing more, nothing less. If you would like me to quote a few things from SCOF, allow me temporary access (you can set up a guest account for a day), and I'll go back in and be more than happy to point out the particulars of each thread and their original authors. I have nothing against SPF owners, their cars, or SCOF. I happen to like the SPF, and the way I go through cars, perhaps I'll own one in the next year or so....However, as stated in my past posts, I call it like I see it, and in this case, the new South African Shelby product has the SPF owners running scared, as quite a few of them bought their cars as investments (read my sig line), and now they are complaining and attacking the "new kid on the block" without ever seeing the product (not that any of us actually have in person). Posturing by a select few SPF dealers and customers over the recent weeks has driven quite a few of us here and elsewhere over the edge with their "ours are better then theirs" rhetoric. As a company SPF is a wonderful thing, having a dealer and support network set up the way they do to keep things in order. As a dealer network though, some business people need to learn to not try to put down other peoples products to make their look better, as it does have a way of backfiring on them (as you can see here). yes, SAI has done the same type of advertising in the past, and they learned their lesson. Now that they learned that they cannot beat the competition in the courts, or on paper, they are doing the next, most logical thihng they could do, try beating them in the marketplace. As for Superformance not being associated with SCOF, yes, they made a wise decision to stave off dealing with discussions such as this. In closing, again I'll say it, I like SPF's, have nothing against SCOF, just some of the people who's posturing is getting out of hand.................


Sincerely,

Bill S.