I believe at the time Jim said that, Chrysler was owned by the Germans. They were not going to change all of the tooling for major component production because of a tiny R&D company. Never going to happen. We can see that and fault Torvec for not planning for that, but considering how the Benz/Chrysler 'partnership' ended it is understandable.
At .19 cents a share and after months of some sort of 'final' negotiations, the most cynical view of this company and all its strategies, certainly seem justified. I can only hope that after all the testing and years of development that the pump is effective. I hope that it is the perfect moment for a pump that is easier to make, smaller, lighter and most important much more effective. IF it can do all that at a time when industry is ready to actually change the status quo. Then I think the optimists might finally see the success we have been waiting for these past 2 decades.
I am numb to any more promises, any grand plans, anymore dead ends. Right now this is either a death watch or something will break and a truly different tech will blossom. Not Jello, not even Kodak, but more like Haloid Photographic Company and Xerox. Or Rocky. The whole Rocky saga still doesn't make sense, but numbers don't lie and I guess Stallone is a great director where it counts.
If this doesn't flame out and all of us somehow actually get above water on this, there has to be some kind of celebration for the worlds longest suffering common stockholders.EOM
