John wrote:

<snip>they told me today that the 70 cars are all preproduction versions
and will go back to the factory in Hungary to be CRUSHED.

Honest solicitors do not be offended. BUT what kind of lawyerese junk is fed
into auto company heads that has them destroying these kinds of cars? Build
them, just to destroy them?

They build them in Hungary, ship them all the way to Hawaii to show them,
then ship them all the way back to Hungary to crush them? That sounds like
economical and "sound" business practice!?!  I say ship'em to my town to
show them, and leave the rest to me. I can't stand to see such waste. Can
you imagine those beautiful things being crushed? Just let me have one
drivetrain and one interior, please. Oh, just make it a rolling chassis w/
complete drivetrain. Well, now distraught and bewildered,  I'm going out
into the cold to change the points on my bug.

DougJ (in shock)