Malcolm Bricklin
#1
Posted 10 September 2007 - 12:05
Here's an excerpt from a story in Autoweek by Kevin Wilson, writing about Malcolm:
"At 68, by his own admission, Malcolm Bricklin isn’t getting any younger. But his adventurous entrepreneurial spirit doesn’t seem to be aging. The man who first imported Subarus (the turtle-like 360) to America, produced a safety/sports car with gullwing doors in Canada, and brought us the Yugo, now pledges to build a 100-mpg plug-in hybrid car by 2010 and intends to win the Automotive X-Prize with a production model.
"In a joint teleconference call with X-Prize Foundation chairman Peter Diamandis, Bricklin explained that his Visionary Vehicles operation, originally created to import cars from China, has morphed from an “LLC” to an “Inc.,” and retains 26 of its original 28 dealer partners as investors. Another $50 million capital investment, he said, would be announced by the end of this month.
"Bricklin says he’s still in conversation with potential Chinese partners, but that he hopes his hybrid car can be built in the United States, perhaps in one of the factories recently closed by domestic automakers. This would fit in with Visionary’s low-cost production goals, he suggested, because it might be possible to get the factory “for free” and because the beleaguered United Auto Workers union is “willing to talk in sensible terms now.”
"Leaving an opening to build the car anywhere in the world, he said Visionary would select the production location for the as-yet unnamed vehicle by mid-2008."
http://blogs.orlando...-boy-brick.html
Read the rest of Kevin's story at
http://www.autoweek....07001/1530/FREE.
Advertisement
#2
Posted 02 May 2015 - 07:30
#3
Posted 03 May 2015 - 16:11
Bricklin is less than fondly regarded in New Brunswick Can, where he left taxpayers holding the bag for at least $25 M when his Bricklin gullwing venture finally ran out of other people's money. Not the first or last entrepreneur to attract gullible government backing, but any people dealing with him should invest very cautiously.
Edited by D28, 03 May 2015 - 23:49.
#4
Posted 03 May 2015 - 22:52
Bricklin is less than fondly regarded in New Brunswick Can, where he left taxpayers holding the bag for at least $25 M when his Bricklin
gullwing venture finally ran out of other people's money. Not the first or last entrepreneur to attract gullible government backing, but any people dealing with him should invest very cautiously.
Ohhhh Dear...so it looks like he snowbirded down to Florida to escape the heat! Another Delorean debacle!
Thanks for letting us know...as always, a pity that a nice engineering exercise was been soured by greed or incompetance
#5
Posted 04 May 2015 - 01:25
Anyone would almost assume plagurism.
#6
Posted 04 May 2015 - 05:12