pufferfish
Supporting Vendor
I think they are getting nickel and dimed to death on warranty. sure, they probably had plenty of budget for any mechanical issues, but it think its the phantom issues, such as the P03XX and the clutch sticking, that have the bean counters up at night.
I had not thought about the fact that ford was already working on the boss program prior to the 2010 gt/cs release. it very well may be the other way around...the cs may have received boss parts bin?
you couldn't get closer to the boss options in 2011 than my base brembo with 3.73's, but yes, you could base at under 28k forgoing the brembos and gears. which place to start the price differential is a toss up. if I were to take a close look at the parts swapping (ie: cost of a pair of cloth gt seats at 50,000 quantity vs cloth recaros at 6,000 quantity), there might have actually been a tidy profit in there for ford.
it was DEFINITELY a PR win for the ford loyalists and anti-M3 folks, but that darn Randy Pobst just gave it all back, when he whined about how much harder it is to drive at the limit than the Camaro. Seriously? put your big boy pants on Randy!
I had not thought about the fact that ford was already working on the boss program prior to the 2010 gt/cs release. it very well may be the other way around...the cs may have received boss parts bin?
you couldn't get closer to the boss options in 2011 than my base brembo with 3.73's, but yes, you could base at under 28k forgoing the brembos and gears. which place to start the price differential is a toss up. if I were to take a close look at the parts swapping (ie: cost of a pair of cloth gt seats at 50,000 quantity vs cloth recaros at 6,000 quantity), there might have actually been a tidy profit in there for ford.
it was DEFINITELY a PR win for the ford loyalists and anti-M3 folks, but that darn Randy Pobst just gave it all back, when he whined about how much harder it is to drive at the limit than the Camaro. Seriously? put your big boy pants on Randy!