DeTomaso Mailing List: July 98, Message #187

Item Subject: cool job; funny lambo story
     I'll let you know how true this story is.  We actually have a 
     Lamborghini Diablo Roadster signed up for our July 26th track event at 
     Thunderhill.  We'll see what he does compared to the Panteras.
     
     Ed
     
     
     
     
     
Lamborghini draws attention for all the wrong reasons
     
Man sues over alleged defects
     
June 22, 1998 
     
WEST PALM BEACH,
Florida (AP) -- John Martin just wasn't satisfied with his 1997 red Ferrari. 
     
He craved something hotter, something flashier, something to make him the 
envy of perfect strangers: a quarter-million-dollar Lamborghini Diablo 
Roadster. A purple one. 
     
Now, one year after buying the car of his boyhood dreams, Martin says in a 
lawsuit that the Diablo is a big-ticket lemon. 
     
The roof leaks so badly, he can't drive when it rains.  The battery quits 
without notice. The sunroof latches detach when he drives over a bump, 
bonking him on the head, he says. 
     
And perhaps most galling, the doors and windows jam, and he has to bang 
on the windows until a stranger helps him get out. 
     
"It's very embarrassing," said Martin, 31, of Fort Lauderdale. "You want to 
get the Lamborghini to get to be the center of attention. But now you're the 
center of attention because you're some fool locked in a purple car." 
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