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SilverTurtle · 11-21-2007, 09:07 PM

While racing in the SCCA and following the sport after my 1994 season, I had seen your cars on the track and watched them dominate, at times, in their class. I was glad to see the S7 come to fruition becuase it showed that there was, in fact, still some really great talent in the American auto industry and that there was another American car capable of being called a "supercar." But the days of me admiring you and your products have come to an end. To lie so blatantly is not a way of "kidding" or "rubbing" the competition. Its borderline on slander. Your PR people are probably scrambling to their posts as I type this looking for ways to cover up your words as nothing more than "playful" and to distance the company from your comments.

Have you ever even driven GM's competition to your cars, Mr. Saleen? I have a 2002 Z28 that handily beat down one of your supercharged S281 cars while my Z28 was in bone stock trim. Yes, Mr. Saleen, that is correct. Your cars are not nearly as fast in the hands of John Q. Public as they are in your overqualified testers' hands. Have you ever actually seen any of your supercharged cars race against other cars on the streets? Because I see alot of them from the front but really dont know what the rear ends look like in person. Could that be because those cars were burdened with starting off with an engine that was too small for the weight it was pulling?

Mr. Saleen, what do you have to say for yourself? You were given the opportunity to put together a great car for a major motion picture and you did it. And, in the process, you won the hearts of quite a few of the people who have laughed at your name in the past. Now you have gone and upset the masses. You've lied about what you did, you've lied about the way GM got their cars into the "Transformers" movie, you've made a public spectacle of yourself by pandering to a crowd like a pathetic politician and you've embarassed the company that you used to head. (yes, Mr. Saleen, we do know that you no longer head the company that you founded and that produces the S281 cars) So the question really is, "what do you have to say for yourself?"

11-21-2007, 09:07 PM	#16
SilverTurtle Reality Check Specialist Drives: '02 Z28, 2012 45th SS Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: ATX Posts: 1,730	While racing in the SCCA and following the sport after my 1994 season, I had seen your cars on the track and watched them dominate, at times, in their class. I was glad to see the S7 come to fruition becuase it showed that there was, in fact, still some really great talent in the American auto industry and that there was another American car capable of being called a "supercar." But the days of me admiring you and your products have come to an end. To lie so blatantly is not a way of "kidding" or "rubbing" the competition. Its borderline on slander. Your PR people are probably scrambling to their posts as I type this looking for ways to cover up your words as nothing more than "playful" and to distance the company from your comments. Have you ever even driven GM's competition to your cars, Mr. Saleen? I have a 2002 Z28 that handily beat down one of your supercharged S281 cars while my Z28 was in bone stock trim. Yes, Mr. Saleen, that is correct. Your cars are not nearly as fast in the hands of John Q. Public as they are in your overqualified testers' hands. Have you ever actually seen any of your supercharged cars race against other cars on the streets? Because I see alot of them from the front but really dont know what the rear ends look like in person. Could that be because those cars were burdened with starting off with an engine that was too small for the weight it was pulling? Mr. Saleen, what do you have to say for yourself? You were given the opportunity to put together a great car for a major motion picture and you did it. And, in the process, you won the hearts of quite a few of the people who have laughed at your name in the past. Now you have gone and upset the masses. You've lied about what you did, you've lied about the way GM got their cars into the "Transformers" movie, you've made a public spectacle of yourself by pandering to a crowd like a pathetic politician and you've embarassed the company that you used to head. (yes, Mr. Saleen, we do know that you no longer head the company that you founded and that produces the S281 cars) So the question really is, "what do you have to say for yourself?" __________________ got tequila?