Superformance Design Problem

[Hal Copple]

Auto manufacturers have talented teams of engineers and fabricators working for years on the design and production of their cars, and test drive them millions of miles before they are put into production.

Then they quickly find a vareity of things that need to be changed, or "recalled", and go forth to do that.

So a company as small as Superformance, "ie", Hi Tech in SA, also finds things along the way that need to be changed on their cars.

Every new car i have bought in the past decade has had recalls for one thing or another. If you want to read a litany of problems with cars, go read the Porsche forums, or the BMW forums.

The exhaust manifold fell off my daugher's Wrangler, the cylinder head cracked on my Chrysler minivan, the tranny failed, the Liberty was found to roll over too easily, and if i want, i can spend a lot of my money having the suspension lowered. The Nissan's torsion bars have sagged past all possible adjustment, i am on my third (my cost) fuel pump in the Wrangler, just put ANOTHER $2k in the minivan's tranny, and so forth.

On the other hand, my simple SPF, #673, with about 60K hard hard miles on it, has required minimal adjustments and changes thru its life.

I never have had such a reliable car, nor such service as i have from my regional dealer.

What other manufacturer would meet me at his shop at midnight, when i stripped a gear on my distributor speedshifting recently, and had my car flatbedded to his shop, and have it fixed by 8AM the next morning, like a month ago? Or drive the 77 miles to my house when i had mal-adjusted my Holley so badly it would not run at all, tune it, advise me to be more careful next time, and not charge me a cent.

Or when i had my recent 50K service done, and have since found a number of modifications and upgrades to my car, that i did not even know about, or was even asked to pay for.

Saw a Diablo on a flatbed up in Charlotte last week, i am sure its owner is frustrated too.

I will be off this forum for a week, going to the beach in the AM.

My son and I flipped a coin, take my SPF or his Boxster.

We are taking the German car. But you better be sure i am exceedingly pleased with my car, and its service and reliability, even when my life depends on it at 150+ mph down the straight at VIR.