Talk:Renaissance Tropica

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Did you know... that actor Don Johnson and other investors reportedly planned to restart production of the Renaissance Tropica, an electric car which appeared in an episode of Nash Bridges?

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The result was: promoted by MeegsC (talk) 13:29, 29 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that actor Don Johnson and other investors reportedly planned to restart production of the Renaissance Tropica, an electric car which appeared in an episode of Nash Bridges? Source 1: San Francisco Business Times, 1999: "Actor Don Johnson has teamed up with a group of Chinese venture capitalists and American investment bankers to buy Zebra Motors Inc., electric vehicle manufacturer at the former Alameda Naval Air Station. The new owners have renamed the company Xebra Motors Inc., to avoid potential trademark infringement, and plan to begin limited production of the electric Model Z Roadster as early as September." Then: "While most of the parties involved were bound by nondisclosure agreements, inside sources confirmed Johnson's participation in the deal." Source 2: IMCDb. 1, 2

Created by Periwinklewrinkles (talk). Self-nominated at 03:33, 18 March 2021 (UTC).[reply]

"The Tropica Roadster was designed by Jim Muir." along with where a citation needed tag has been placed needs to be referenced. The first reference is self-published, the 10th reference is a forum post, the 11th reference is an unreliable WordPress blog, and the 12th reference is self-published (which also makes its five other uses as references unreliable). This needs a lot of work with only three usable references. SL93 (talk) 05:50, 11 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Periwinklewrinkles: Will you be working on this? SL93 (talk) 05:28, 24 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@SL93: I edited the article a bit. Added references where "citation needed" tags were (and about Jim Muir). The first reference is not self-published but actually a Car and Driver article, the site simply copied it - I changed the reference to make it clear. That forum post is actually an IMCDb site (but it has comments under it, including one by the owner of the car) - it depends whether IMCDb in general can pass for a source; if it cannot, I added another source that the car was on Nash Bridges, just in case. The WordPress blog is a website for an electric car museum, it only sources the sentence that this particular museum has this car so - so it can go if it's not reliable. Steve Bischoff's ad - it contains information about how well the car fares after some time.

Now, the important part: the nogas.org site (it was the 12th reference you mentioned) is a trove of information about this largely forgotten car. It contains product brochures, technical data, materials from the manufacturer not found anywhere else, photos, plus copies of 15 different newspaper/magazine articles describing the car. This is a source I want to keep.

But I don't plan to add to this Wiki article further. Periwinklewrinkles (talk) 21:14, 24 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for clarifying about the sources. This is ready to go. SL93 (talk) 01:15, 25 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Periwinklewrinkles, the article says Johnson was an investor in a subsequent company, but not that they tried ever to restart production of this model. Can you please add that (sourced) info or modify the hook, and ping me when you've done so? Thanks. MeegsC (talk) 09:37, 26 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

MeegsC I thought that I saw something in that source that could help out when I reviewed the nomination, but now the source says that I hit my reading limit even though that is the only article from them that I have ever read in my life. SL93 (talk) 14:30, 26 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

MeegsC, SL93 I changed the hook, please take a look at it. The San Francisco Business Times article says they planned to restart production. The Model Z was just a renamed Tropica. I changed the link to the article to an archived form, which should be viewable. Periwinklewrinkles (talk) 19:04, 27 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@MeegsC: Are you able to verify the hook now? The San Francisco Business Times article says this for me - "You’ve reached your article limit for this 30 day period. Want to keep reading? Create a FREE account." I'm not going to register just to verify one fact. SL93 (talk) 15:26, 28 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Periwinklewrinkles: The two bare link references need to be formatted. SL93 (talk) 15:26, 28 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The hook is verified, but the "no series production" sentence in the article needs a citation. MeegsC (talk) 16:20, 28 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

MeegsC Fixed. Periwinklewrinkles (talk) 20:41, 28 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]