They should have offered me that plan and been proactive, not reactive. Fix is confident that the third-party supply problems have been resolved. OMC brought back teams of retirees and former employees to the vendors plants to restore the flow of crankshafts, prop shafts, flywheels and other parts needed to deliver its engines, according to Fix. Engine production in August, September and October was at a rate almost double that of July, he adds. Reliability and endurance has been excellent, Fix says of the 2000 and 2001 model-year engines.
Performance seems to be a real home run.
It s exciting. We have to give OMC a good report on what we see, says Bentz, who was a vice president at OMC from 1986-96. But, he notes, there s an issue of consumer confidence that needs to be overcome. And Merrill Lynch analyst Hayley Kissel says it s going to be tough for OMC to recapture the market share it lost. But Fix is determined to get OMC back on track.