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 Posted: 10-18-2006 07:02 pm
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Greg Fletcher



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 Stop with the "poor quality" already! When you look at the garbage being produced world wide at that time by major auto makers, it's a wonder the JH was as good as it was. Didn't any of you guys drive a Fiat or Lanica or Truimph or whatever from that era? Parts literally fell off these brand new cars from a test drive. The very first Lotus engines caused the bad press and continues to this day. Most of those early problems where quickly sorted out. The whole "poor quality" thing on this car is overblown and way out of proportion. I say forget parroting the press from 1973 and focus on what's good about the car.

I think unrealistic labor demands from the unions and out-of-control inflation had more to bankrupt Jensen Motors than anything else. Demand for the roadsters exceeded production toward the end (quality was very good at this time). The entire Jensen Healey project was a great vision to "mass market" cars by an extremely tiny company that was always undercapitalized and still assembled everything by hand. It's astonishing what Jensen Motors accomplished in a few short years.