ROUSH and Ford sued for making too many Blackjack Mustangs

http://www.autoblog.com/2008/08/05/ford-sued-for-making-too-many-roush-black-jack-mustangs/

ROUSH announced the Stage3 Blackjack Mustang back in 2006, and in 2007 said it would make 100 of them. New Yorker Drew Conner bought Blackjack number two, spending almost $59,000 for his slice of limited edition Mustang pie. Only the glossy black 'Stang wasn't so limited after all: according to a lawsuit Connor filed in New York, Ford and ROUSH made another 100 Blackjacks in 2008.

Both Ford and ROUSH are named in the suit, and Connor has been joined by "at least 100" other Blackjack buyers. The plaintiffs' complaint is, of course, that the Blackjack's "value from scarcity and as collectors' items were and are dramatically less than the buyers had been led to believe their value would be."

But to make everything all better, the plaintiffs are asking for class action status, a jury trial, and... ahem... more than $12 million. That sounds like a lot, but say there were just 100 plaintiffs, that would be $120,000 per person, and would get them their money back plus a 100-percent premium for being misled... which might sound more reasonable. Or not. For the moment, both Ford and ROUSH have no comment on the litigation. Thanks for the tip, iOrange!

UPDATE: One point of clarification that's been bothering us is why Ford has been included in this lawsuit. All it did was build the Mustangs then sold them to ROUSH, which developed, manufactured and distributed the run of limited-edition Blackjack Mustangs.

Because people are greedy assholes, that's why.

News Flash, Ford has no money.


YOu can't sue poor people and expect to get real money, what makes them think they would get money

If Lamborghini decided they were going to build 200 Reventons, then I'd be pissed if I bought one of the originals, as they were highly limited and ungodly expensive.

Having 100 more Roush Mustangs isn't going to wipe out $120,000 of the car's value. If the people in the suit think otherwise, they're completely delusional. But then, considering they couldn't think of a $60,000 car that's more worth buying than a Roush Mustang, we already knew that.

60k sounds cheap for a limited edition mustnang

well its not

Ascona wrote:60k sounds cheap for a limited edition mustnang

not in dollars its not.. 60k for any stang is retarded... Unless u old school it.. otherwise, ffffffuck outta here

american cars are cheap

milleniahead wrote:

Ascona wrote:60k sounds cheap for a limited edition mustnang

not in dollars its not.. 60k for any stang is retarded... Unless u old school it.. otherwise, ffffffuck outta here

that's less than 40K euro. those are upper middle class cars. .
i can get an opel astra more expencive than that. without having to go through too much troubles or having a really special edition shit.

if i'd want to buy a regular mustang, i'd at least be paying somewhere two, three times as much

why aren't all you fuckers driving one?

or two?

hell, that's just a little tad more than a civic type R with satnav over here

Yeah, but we live in America, where $60k is expensive for a Mustang. Hell, you can get a used C6 Z06 for about that much.

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JaysonAych wrote:That site has potential

i'm gonna sue belgium for not having cheap cars like you guys.

aaaaaahahahahahahahaha beautiful. I should forward that to Screamo.

Ascona wrote:

JaysonAych wrote:That site has potential

i'm gonna sue belgium for not having cheap cars like you guys.

In a word "Twingo".

Bluntman wrote:

Ascona wrote:

JaysonAych wrote:That site has potential

i'm gonna sue belgium for not having cheap cars like you guys.

In a word "Twingo".

my twingo, when it was new, (and it was a fully base twingo) was already 14K usd

Yeah, a Mustang GT starts a little over $29k USD.

The price for your Twingo brand new sounds about right, here in the US.

SBF wrote:Yeah, a Mustang GT starts a little over $29k USD.

The price for your Twingo brand new sounds about right, here in the US.

so for two twingos you can buy a mustang?



and, just out of interest, what's the cheapest car that's actually sold?

In the US, I think it's the Aveo.

xtine wrote:In the US, I think it's the Aveo.

they start at 13k over where you live.

it's 23k usd over here.

Actually, they start at $10,895 now.

got to love the dollar/euro exchange.

i'm thinking about picking up a brand-new chevy tahoe for about $8995 usd.

My buddy's 2005 Avalanche 2500 8.1L Vortec is up for sale somewhere.

He got it repo'd last week

xtine wrote:Actually, they start at $10,895 now.

I don't even want to pay THAT for an Aveo.

weird. i thought aveos were under 9k.

Aristotle wrote:i'm thinking about picking up a brand-new chevy tahoe for about $8995 usd.

My father-in-law is looking into a Tahoe hybrid for my MIL.