Why has the SVT Enthusiast magazine been discontinued to current SVT owners?
many who purchased 2000 SVT's and are supposed to get the SVT Enthusiast for a year receive their latest issue w/ a note telling them this will be their last one unless they join the SVTOA
I think I can answer these two together. We have all along told our customers that we would give them a year of the Enthusiast. I apologize for anyone that didn?t get his or her Certificate and Enthusiasts. I have recently completely replaced the database system to make sure that doesn?t happen any longer. If anyone is interested in getting the issues they missed, e-mail me your VIN, name, and address and I will send them to you.
Rarely are there mentions of the car in the SVT enthusiast mag
We are limited by the number of articles that are in each Enthusiast. Usually there is one larger article that highlights the most recent vehicle (which is generally the cover). There are then articles from both Tom Scarpello and John Coletti, which they generally talk about what?s up in marketing and engineering respectively. Then there is an article about an owner in the front of the magazine which we usually get from the mail (Volume 3 issue 3 has a Contour owner). We are always looking for ideas. What would you like to see written about? Keep in mind we can?t write articles about modifications and such.
why is it that there are no performance parts offered for the SVT Contour? By this I mean why have you (SVT) not helped with securing sources or suppliers?
Because we mainly deal with the development of the vehicle itself, we don?t usually get involved with aftermarket parts. But we have been trying to improve that. Our first efforts were with the ShoShop and I think they have done well with supporting the SVT Contour. It is very hard to convince a company to dedicate themselves to a vehicle with such a low production number.
I am led to believe that you have direct contact with SVE which is out of Europe, so why did we not get acess to the european goods?[/qoute]
I?m not really sure what you?re referring to here e-mail me some more specific information and I?ll have someone pursue it.
[quote] why is this your first visit? why has nobody come to this site to ask this before?
Technically I have been for a while but only monitoring the site. Posting to a board is a new to us here at SVT, and I personally believe we should have started a long time ago. I am doing this here on my own and without any instruction to do so.
It appears that a couple of you are asking about apparel as well. We did have specific apparel for the SVT Contour, for almost two years. It wasn?t removed until recently and we don?t now because it didn?t sell. That doesn?t mean I can?t get something. What are you all interested in? Maybe we can get something made up if there is enough interest.
We are also working on an SVT history on the website. So, hopefully the SVT Contour will be back up there soon. Actually it never went anywhere if you know where to look
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