Originally posted by RogerB:
Originally posted by Rara:
Originally posted by RogerB:

There are quite a few people taking care of Merkur owners, actually, and let's face it. They're just Fords.




I would hardly consider BAT and Rapido and OPMD "quite a few people". All three of which charge ridiculously high prices for everything, and none keep very much in stock.


Some of you guys need to grow up and realize that supply and demand actually works, and as demand drops (from a level that wasn't terribly high to begin with) supply must drop too. The $$$ just isn't in contour performance parts anymore (not that it was ever a very lucrative business)



Some people also need to grow up and realize that one vendor leaving doesn't mean they ought to sell their car.

Three major vendors for a car that hasn't been sold here since 1989, is basically ugly and unknown except to the most staunch enthusiast, and of which far fewer examples ever existed in the US.

Supply and demand? I'd say the Contour has plenty of demand. I'm not whining about the small aftermarket. I'm saying the herd is being culled. And maybe that's a good thing. The mass-market chasers will leave. The niche-marketers will stay. That's how supply and demand works in the real world.



It does when one of the MAJOR vendors leave. I mean you set up a group buy and you have 100 people screaming they want something. When it is time to pay you may get 10% at best. How is a company to survive?

Now I hate America? That is a new one to me.