Ron, I had the opportunity, almost a decade ago at the National BusCon Show in Chicago and LasVegas to meet with the owners and management of a new emerging company. I think they were based in Washington State and later moved to Florida as they developed engineering ideas for a new type of vehicle.... a Taxi Cab for the commercial market. Back then, they were pushing the idea to have new skins for the fenders and doors making damaged pieces easy to change out. Over the years I saw and touched several proto-types and then the choice to built the vehicles in SouthBend -AMC Plant. All they would discuss, back then were taxi and the taxi market. When the suggestion of making the vehicle available to the consumer market, it wasn't discussed or thought of. Later the idea of also addressing the para-transist market was considered as they tried to use the consumers to demand to their taxi providers to purchase the MV1. When they released that the taxi market was more then they could handle and their vehicle was not accepted, they began looking elsewhere into other markets. They consumer market was their very last resort and their finale. Best Wishes In a message dated 5/21/2013 7:53:37 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
I wanted to see how durable these vehicles were over the years. They needed more adaptation to be made as a wheelchair driver vehicle, but could of easily been done. I cant imagine who will buy the company. ron ____________________________________ From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected]; [email protected] Sent: Tue, May 21, 2013 7:32:48 AM Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] mv-1 mobilty vehicle is no more Ron, actually the company is up for sale and yes has stopped making the MV-1 in SouthBend, IN. The investment group that owned the company was not making money and many of the original investors chose to take their investment to other ventures. The original principals of the business left. The company lost its perspective, when it didn't get the Taxi Contracts they had hoped for. I hope for the best for VMI, for attempting to take on the task of servicing vehicles from a failed company. Best Wishes In a message dated 5/21/2013 3:22:00 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: i received an email stating that the company that makes mv-1 is out of business.........hopefully noone on the list has one but if you do vmi is going to manage the ones that alreasy have been sold ron
