[MERLIN]

Jack, thanks for starting this; you have done a great job. There is one element of the structure of your questionnaire that will be misleading if anyone wants to use it to analyze time sequences in the ordering, shipping, delivery process.

Those of us who ordered a car, but were going to be caught up in the MSRP increase, who opted to take a car at the old MSRP that was passed, will show an artificially reduced order to delivery time. I suggest you capture this factor on the questionnaire with a question that asks whether a switch was made to a car in production earlier than the one ordered.

I'd also be interested to know whether you plan to maintain the registry as a permanent, official record and, if so, how? It would also be nice if you could indicate how the information will be used: made available to vendors, secured if personal information is collected, entrusted to a club or other organization to preserve it when individuals more on, etc.?