New Ford 5.0 On The Books

[ALMACK]

Originally Posted by kdanner

.... I just don't understand why cars like this can't be in the guide. Instead nothing but the paper cars since 2008.

I wonder why that is ?
A marketing strategy ?
And if so, was it designed so as to sell more CJs ?

Are they (Ford) afraid that the 2011 -2012 GT will hurt CJ sales ?
There is a huge difference between a CJ buyer and a GT buyer.

Personally, I would also like to see the '11-'12 V-6 Mustang compete in Stock. Now that would be cool.

[BlueOval Ralph]

Maybe they are? As the Sales Data in Automotive News shows the Camaro is out selling the Mustangs again this year (and they don't even have a race package and not sure they can even build one like the CJ's) more interesting will be if Ford can continue building package cars if they shutter the Flat Rock Assembly plant. With Mazda pulling the plug on the Mazda 6 that plant is in real trouble. Ithas to build some where around 220,000 to break even, Mustang is not even close to those numbers (somewhere around 80,000 units) so only time will tell not sure that Ford has a Vehicle in the 120,000 units a year to move there.

Ralph

Originally Posted by ALMACK

I wonder why that is ?
A marketing strategy ?
And if so, was it designed so as to sell more CJs ?

Are they (Ford) afraid that the 2011 -2012 GT will hurt CJ sales ?
There is a huge difference between a CJ buyer and a GT buyer.

Personally, I would also like to see the '11-'12 V-6 Mustang compete in Stock. Now that would be cool.