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<blockquote data-quote="Fastlane Cobra" data-source="post: 10344022" data-attributes="member: 3212"><p><strong>"One Ford" and fuel economy may prevent future SVT vehicles</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Well the anniversary model represented 10 years of SVT not 10 years of the SVT cobra. SVT built a Contour, Focus, Lightning, worked on the Ford GT, Raptor, GT500 powertrain, and the SVT Performance Package for the GT500. Shelby or not, the car says "Powered by SVT" on the motor. That means that this specialty team of engineers and developers will have been around for 20 years in 2013 as an entity or division within Ford. Let's see one last example of their passion and capabilities. After 2013 the "World Ford" engineers will be fully integrated into Dearborn and who knows what will be next.</p><p></p><p>I can see it now, the German, Austraillian, Brazilian, Asian, and British Ford Engineers will have a say so and influence in future high performance vehicles. I can hear them asking in their own respective accent......Who is SVT?? And then singing together: We Are ONE FORD.....We are Ford's Children. Laugh now, cry later. They will never be on the same sheet of music for developing high performance vehicles. I hope I am wrong. But each represent their own design philosophy in the high performance arena and this may cut against the grain when it comes to future SVT products. Aussies - 5.8L Falcon, Europe - Focus RS and Focus ST, Asians tend to turbocharge and China's market will influence heavily, Brazil is heavily into Flex Fuel. Research Research Research and see where this is all headed. One last hurrah for SVT before it is to late.</p><p></p><p>A good read: <a href="http://www.economist.com/node/17673258" target="_blank">Ford: Epiphany in Dearborn | The Economist</a></p><p></p><p>Ford of Brazil: <a href="http://media.fordvehicles.com/article_print.cfm?article_id=23555" target="_blank">http://media.fordvehicles.com/article_print.cfm?article_id=23555</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fastlane Cobra, post: 10344022, member: 3212"] [b]"One Ford" and fuel economy may prevent future SVT vehicles[/b] Well the anniversary model represented 10 years of SVT not 10 years of the SVT cobra. SVT built a Contour, Focus, Lightning, worked on the Ford GT, Raptor, GT500 powertrain, and the SVT Performance Package for the GT500. Shelby or not, the car says "Powered by SVT" on the motor. That means that this specialty team of engineers and developers will have been around for 20 years in 2013 as an entity or division within Ford. Let's see one last example of their passion and capabilities. After 2013 the "World Ford" engineers will be fully integrated into Dearborn and who knows what will be next. I can see it now, the German, Austraillian, Brazilian, Asian, and British Ford Engineers will have a say so and influence in future high performance vehicles. I can hear them asking in their own respective accent......Who is SVT?? And then singing together: We Are ONE FORD.....We are Ford's Children. Laugh now, cry later. They will never be on the same sheet of music for developing high performance vehicles. I hope I am wrong. But each represent their own design philosophy in the high performance arena and this may cut against the grain when it comes to future SVT products. Aussies - 5.8L Falcon, Europe - Focus RS and Focus ST, Asians tend to turbocharge and China's market will influence heavily, Brazil is heavily into Flex Fuel. Research Research Research and see where this is all headed. One last hurrah for SVT before it is to late. A good read: [url=http://www.economist.com/node/17673258]Ford: Epiphany in Dearborn | The Economist[/url] Ford of Brazil: [url]http://media.fordvehicles.com/article_print.cfm?article_id=23555[/url] [/QUOTE]
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