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	HWH Public Relations - Malcolm Bricklin Speaker
		Malcolm Bricklin claims humble beginnings as the son of a working class Philadelphia family, but from an early age he displayed the ambition and business acumen to rise to success.
		Bricklin's charisma, leadership and persistence were the deciding factors that convinced the reluctant Fuji company to contract to bring Subaru cars to the USA.
		Only 2875 Bricklins were ever made, but the car still boasts a devoted fan base of owners who swap photos, exchange stories and drive their vintage “Bricks” to meets across the United States.
	www.hwhpr.com /speakers_bricklin.html (997 words)

	First Chinese cars to hit U.S. shores - 1/2/05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Malcolm Bricklin, the man behind the Yugo, to lead new import wave in 2007.
		Bricklin, known best for bringing the ultra-cheap Yugo car to the U.S. market in the 1980s, is expected to announce the agreement today between New York-based Visionary Vehicles LLC and Chery Automobile Co., one of the fastest-growing players in the fledgling Chinese auto industry.
		Bricklin expects the automotive world to be skeptical of Chinese imports in the United States, just as it was when he brought in Subarus and Yugos.
	www.detnews.com /2005/autosinsider/0501/02/A01-47455.htm (2401 words)

	Malcolm Bricklin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Malcolm Bricklin born January 9, 1939 (age 67) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an automotive entrepreneur from Phoenix, Arizona.
		Bricklin realized that the 360's light weight (under 454 kg) allowed it to slip under the United States government's safety regulations, and he and his partner, Harvey Lamm, formed Subaru of America, Inc. to sell Subaru franchises.
		Bricklin went on to import Fiat X1/9s (rebadged as Bertones) followed by his far more infamous importation of Yugo cars, priced at a competitive $3995.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Malcolm_Bricklin (897 words)

	CanadianDriver: Motor Memories - Bricklin
		The similarities between Malcolm Bricklin and John DeLorean are inescapable.
		By the time he was 25, Bricklin had parleyed the family building supply business into a chain of franchised Handyman Hardware stores in the U.S. He sold out in 1964 amid a flurry of lawsuits, claiming to have made a million dollars.
		Bricklin convinced Fuji that he and a partner, Harvey Lamm, could market the car in the U.S. Since the 360 weighed less than 454 kg (1000 lb), he knew it was immune from automobile safety regulations.
	www.canadiandriver.com /articles/bv/bricklin.htm (796 words)

	Would You Buy a Chinese Car from This Man?
		Bricklin began to see the fragments of his up-and-down career fitting together in a new way and producing something better than he had ever accomplished in the past.
		Bricklin says he already has tentative agreements with the 14 dealers he brought with him to tour China this past April and that he's still on track to line up 250 by the end of the year.
		GM has also warned Bricklin in a letter that, as far as its lawyers are concerned, the Chery name is too close to its Chevy brand to be sold in the U.S. GM has warned Bricklin in a letter that, as far as it is concerned, the Chery name is too close to Chevy.
	www.inc.com /magazine/20050701/test3.html (3467 words)

	Bricklin International (Bottom) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Bricklin is a gull-wing sports car that was manufactured primarily from Detroit parts in 1974 through early 1976 in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada for exclusive sale in the United States.
		Like the DeLorean which came after it, the Bricklin was a futuristic vehicle which was well liked by owners and the automotive press, but was never produced in large enough numbers to be profitable.
		Bricklin owners have a club which publishes a quarterly magazine and sponsors yearly meets on the east and west coasts.
	bricklin.org /indexFBot.htm (297 words)

	He's back - Malcolm Bricklin, chief executive officer of the Electric Bicycle Co - The Bottom Line - Column Ward's ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		You trivia buffs have already thought "Bricklin SV-1." The "Bricklin" was the brain child of Malcolm Bricklin, the man who brought Subaru and Yugo to the U.S. market.
		My last contact with Bricklin was in the late 1980s when he tried to start a national chain of retail automobile dealerships.
		Malcolm Currie, former Chairman and CEO of Hughes Aircraft, joins Bricklin as Electric Bicycles' Chairman of the Board (Bricklin is President).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FJN/is_n4_v30/ai_18728453 (727 words)

	USATODAY.com - Dealers wanting to sell China cars get a break (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Bricklin said in an interview that the $15 million was "false information that I allowed to get out" to scare off the merely curious.
		Bricklin had said he would have 25 by the time he takes the group to China later this month to see the Chery facilities.
		Bricklin's moves are being closely watched by the auto industry, which believes that Chinese cars surely will be sold in the USA but isn't sure when, how or by whom.
	www.usatoday.com /money/autos/2005-04-06-china-cars-usat_x.htm (498 words)

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		Bricklin: We’re trying as much as we can to change the way cars are sold—both from the standpoint of dealers and factories, as well as dealers and their customers.
		Bricklin: In the old world, when you wanted to be in the car business as an importer, you needed to set up a huge warehouse and tie up millions to store tens of thousands of parts to make sure you had enough parts to service your vehicles.
		Bricklin’s dealer-focused approach is just one of the appealing factors that has spurred about 50 dealers to sign up for a Visionary franchise.
	www.dealer-magazine.com /index.asp?article=467 (2279 words)

	History Of Bricklin
		Malcolm Bricklin made his first million in hardware/plumbing supply franchising in Florida before he was 25.
		Bricklin's initial intention was to sell the cars for $4000.
		Bricklin went into receivership in Sept of 1975 with 12 cars left on the line that had VIN plates issued as 1976's.
	bricklin.org /BI_HistoryOfBricklin.htm (411 words)

	Bricklin/Chery/Visionary \| Leftlane News - Car News For Enthusiasts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Report: Bricklin abandons plans to bring Chery to U.S. For the past two years, investor Malcolm Bricklin has touted a plan to bring ultra-affordable cars made by China's Chery Automobile to the United States.
		Bricklin, who is credited with bringing Subaru to America, is now believed to be drawing up plans for an original model line.
		Bricklin originally set a target of of January 2007 for the first sales of the cars, and later moved that date to summer of 2007.
	www.leftlanenews.com /category/bricklin (1091 words)

	Coming to America on carlist.com
		Malcolm and I had a verbal-handshake agreement and I had signed the papers to work with him and got paid for one month.
		According to Bricklin, "Walmart was really interested in selling cars and contacted me personally, but I said no; cars are too personalized." According to Peter Butterfield, CEO of KIA motors, says that the distribution method for any start-up is the key to success.
		Bricklin is supposed to announce the first 25 dealers he has signed up in two weeks in a full-page ad.
	www.carlist.com /autonews/2005/autonews_152.html (1923 words)

	USATODAY.com - Yugo importer now wants to bring Chinese cars to USA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Malcolm Bricklin's Visionary Vehicles has signed a deal with China's Chery Automobile, one of the fastest-growing players in the fledgling Chinese auto industry with the goal of selling 250,000 vehicles in the first year and 1 million units by the fifth year, according to a statement Sunday.
		While Bricklin is chief executive officer of Visionary Vehicles, its management board is chaired by William vanden Heuvel, a senior advisor to Allen and Co. and former deputy U.S. representative to the United Nations.
		Bricklin moved on in 1972, founding his own auto manufacturing company with financing from the Canadian government and the province of New Brunswick.
	www.usatoday.com /money/autos/2005-01-03-china-cars_x.htm (2214 words)

	TIME.com: The Bricklin Bombs -- Oct. 20, 1975 -- Page 1
		Bricklin himself proclaimed last week at a press conference in Toronto that "the Bricklin car will continue to be built in New Brunswick." That sounded like whistling in the dark—especially since Bricklin had already gone into a Scottsdale, Ariz., court to declare himself personally bankrupt.
		The Bricklin had retractable bumpers designed to absorb collisions without damage at speeds up to ten miles per hour, roll bars that made the passenger compartment a kind of safety cage, and gull-wing doors that opened by swinging up and out of the way of oncoming traffic.
		Malcolm Bricklin is facing the harsh reality that his car is turning out to be something like a new Edsel, which cynics always thought it would be.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,946592,00.html (696 words)

	The Truth About Cars \| Outta Sight: Malcolm Bricklin’s Visionary Vehicles
		Entrepreneur Malcolm Bricklin is leading the charge, establishing Visionary Vehicles LLC to import a line of “aggressively priced, beautifully styled, high-quality vehicles” built in China.
		Bricklin’s never been anything but a con man. Anyone who hands him a $2MM “franchise fee” is an idiot and deserving of whatever they get.
		Malcolm Bricklin’s plan to be the first U.S. importer of Chinese autos hit a snag as his Visionary Vehicles LLC said it ended a joint venture with the company that was to build the vehicles.
	www.thetruthaboutcars.com /?p=2329 (3512 words)

	Sympatico / MSN - Autos : Breaking News - No Chery for Malcolm Bricklin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Malcolm Bricklin’s plans of importing a quarter million Chinese-built automobiles now have a big, wooden clog stuck in the gears.
		Bricklin has said that it’ll still be importing vehicles.
		Chery nevertheless still appears to be in contention to build Bricklin’s vehicles, as well as FAW Group (links with Toyota and Volkswagen) and Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp (SAIC), the folks that are currently building Rover’s 75 and the 3.4-litre V6 that goes into the Chevy Equinox and Pontiac Torrent.
	news.en.autos.sympatico.msn.ca /article.aspx?cp-documentid=1325801 (515 words)

	Bricklin, ex-Hughes chief set electric bike venture - businessman Malcolm Bricklin; ex-Hughes Aircraft Chmn. Malcolm ...
		Bricklin's checkered business history has led to two personal bankruptices and extended litigation involving his 1980s venture to import Italian sports cars.
		Bricklin and Currie, along with novelist Sydney Sheldon, Rams football team owner Georgia Frontiere and several other partners, have invested millions of dollars into the project.
		Bricklin, who is president of Malibu-based Electric Bicycle Co. (Currie is chairman), is seeking an inexpensive way to bridge the gap between combustion automobiles and the coming mass-production of electric models.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m5072/is_n21_v17/ai_17036914 (891 words)

	NPR : Bricklin Hopes to Pave Way for Chinese Cars in U.S.
		One is Malcolm Bricklin, who helped bring the Subaru to the United States in the 1960s.
		Bricklin says that after visiting plants in Eastern Europe and India, he stumbled upon a company called Chery in Wuhu, China.
		Bricklin is certain that the Chinese are coming, and he thinks that their price advantage over competitors will ensure their success in the U.S. market.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=5506964 (557 words)

	Malcolm In The Middle
		Bricklin began his auto career in the late 1960s by importing Fuji's tiny, Beetle-shaped Subaru 360, which initially sold well at the cut-rate price of $1,300, but tanked in the market after Consumer Reports magazine dubbed it "unacceptably hazardous.
		Malcolm used this payoff money to fund his gullwinged, Bricklin SV-1 sports car introduced in 1974 and manufactured in the Province of New Brunswick in Eastern Canada.
		The Detroit News reported that Malcolm Bricklin's plan to be the first U.S. importer of Chinese autos hit a snag as his Visionary Vehicles LLC said it ended a joint venture with Chery Automobile Co., the company that was to build the vehicles.
	www.joesherlock.com /Bricklin.html (896 words)

	Bricklin
		The Bricklin stands alone as a car that was truly ahead of its time and still evokes the most response from people on the street.
		Malcolm Bricklin had the dream, but he had no money, engineering experience, or any concept of what it took to build a car.
		My job for the Bricklin was to establish the functional feasibility (will it work?), the process feasibility (can we build it?), manpower cost (can we afford to build it?) and last, but not least, service engineering (can the dealer cope with it?).
	www.brooklands-books.com /pages/bricklinack.html (2590 words)

	Malcolm Bricklin Bio: The Bricklin: Heritage Resources Saint John
		Malcolm Bricklin's first franchises, which sold in the early 1960's, got him into trouble; so would some of his later franchises.
		Malcolm was being sued for $153,000 plus court costs.
		Malcolm replaced Meyers with Marshall Hobart in early 1972.
	www.saintjohn.nbcc.nb.ca /~Heritage/bricklin/Malcolm_bio.htm (274 words)

	Malcolm in the Middle of It All
		Bricklin, 65, unsuccessfully tries to get a hotel staffer to turn off the background music, lest it interfere with the audio portion of John recording his father being interviewed.
		Bricklin says General Motors Corp.'s Saturn subsidiary “was the only company, outside of ourselves, that had the guts to change the retail process.
		Bricklin vows that won't happen with the cars he plans to import from China.
	wardsdealer.com /ar/auto_malcolm_middle_2 (940 words)

	The Bricklin - Scooters to Subarus
		Malcolm Bricklin dropped out of college at the age of 19, his reasoning being that the time could be better spent.
		Bricklin told the team that he wanted a sporty car that would have a fixed-barrier crashworthiness of 25 mph, an unheard-of safety specification.
		Malcolm's father was replaced as president, his mother was no longer the service manager and American Motors stopped delivering engines.
	www.secondchancegarage.com /public/286.cfm (892 words)

	USNews.com: Update: Automotive chimera Malcolm Bricklin
		Bricklin, the automotive chimera who successfully brought Subaru to the United States in the 1960s and the Yugo in the 1980s, has been on a quest for the next great--or at least tolerable--cheap car.
		Bricklin's odyssey might sound like a whimsical entrepreneurial adventure--except that virtually every U.S. auto executive believes it' inevitable that Chinese-made cars will land on U.S. shores, just as Korean and Japanese cars have.
		Bricklin's timetable would be extremely aggressive even for a proven manufacturer.
	www.usnews.com /usnews/biztech/articles/050131/31eewhere.htm (325 words)

	The Bricklin SV-1
		The Bricklin SV-1 (Safety Vehicle) was produced in the province of New Brunswick, Canada from mid 1974 to late 1975 by the Bricklin Vehicle Corporation.
		The Bricklin SV-1 was the 'brainchild' of Malcolm Bricklin, and substantially financed by the province of New Brunswick.
		The Bricklin was well received by the public, despite the poor quality of the cars produced.
	clubs.hemmings.com /clubsites/mbo/TheCar.htm (714 words)

	Inside Line: Bricklin's China Policy Q&A with Automotive Maven Malcolm Bricklin - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Malcolm Bricklin is founder and CEO of Visionary Vehicles, the firm that intends to import Chinese vehicles made by Chevrolet to the United States by 2007.
		Bricklin left Subaru in 1971 to build his own gull-winged sports car, named the Bricklin.
		Bricklin began importing the Yugo — a much ridiculed discount automobile — in 1985; it was discontinued in 1992.
	www.edmunds.com /insideline/do/Features/articleId=104800 (1360 words)

	Malcolm Bricklin To Speak at JPMorgan/Harbour Auto Conference
		NEW YORK, July 28 -- Malcolm Bricklin, Founder and CEO of Visionary Vehicles will be speaking at the 2005 JPMorgan/Harbour Auto Conference on Tuesday, August 2, in Dearborn, Michigan.
		Bricklin's presentation is scheduled to begin at 9:30 AM, Eastern Standard Time, and will last for approximately 1.5 hours.
		Automotive entrepreneur, Malcolm Bricklin, and his team of experienced professionals established Visionary Vehicles as an international automobile company with the mission to bring an exciting new brand of aggressively priced, beautifully styled, high quality vehicles into North America.
	www.theautochannel.com /news/2005/07/28/138616.html (320 words)

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