When all the senior writers of motortrend are popping wood under the table over one of your vehicles - you don't stop production
When:
* You have the only vehicle of its type in the industry and
* You sell as many Raptors as you make and
* You make significant profits on the vehicle
You keep making them.
When you have a new version of the truck used to make the vehicle coming out in 2015 you keep making them. Because:
* You have the only vehicle of its type in the industry and
* You sell as many Raptors as you make and
* You make significant profits on the vehicle
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That video defines every reason why svt is the greatest performance division of any of the manufacturers
If you're talking of the "Big 3" I'd agree with you.
They are doing a great job. They are making much better products. But they still have a ways to go before they are the best performance division in all of automotive land.
And they need to make the Focus SVT available in all wheel drive (enough of jamming power through front wheel drive. FRONT WHEEL DRIVE is, no matter what your white-sticky-food-you-eat-with-chopsticks-friends say, NOT the way you design a performance oriented vehicle! Either RWD or AWD. Furthermore, the new Golf GTI coming out later this year in the US has already surpassed the Focus SVT according to the car magazines. It was a very brief moment on the podium for Ford in that challenge. Ford can do better with that car and they need to come out with an AWD RS or whatever they want to call it.
And let's see Ford's new Mustang. That car needs to have the body updated in a big way. The retro look is dead - get over it. But some of these are Ford issues not SVT issues.