After seeing the first cars roll off the ship in Melbourne last week made me wonder what would happen if a car was damaged, written off or stolen before it was delivered to the dealer what would Ford do?
I remember back in the early '90s my old man was national service manager for LNC who were the importers of Subaru, Fiat, Audi, Lancia & Renault - they had imported 4 RX sedans (4wd turbo) which were the predecessors to the WRX.
Two were for Possum Bourne and the other 2 were for evaluation - the latter two were given to a major motoring magazine for a test article. The journos doing the test stopped for lunch - came back and the cars were gone.
I was in my mid 20's and had a VW that I went to a wreckers in sydney to get parts for - whilst there I noticed for sale was a set of wheels that were of an RX sedan (very distinctive). Went home and told the old man, he sent me back to ask if they had any high performance subaru engines for my (imaginary) rally car.
He showed me a turbo motor that had just come in - police were called and a major car theft ring was broken.
I'm so glad that I got to test drive my dad's company car before it went to those journo's
Cheers
J
