Talking Fiesta ST, Ford vs Chevy, GT500 & SVT Raptor with Ford SVT's Jamal Hameedi!

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Great stuff. Loved the part where he said he was shocked a competitor hasn't built a raptor clone cause they are having a field day with the only game in town. I like jameel.
 

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Well, looks like in going to be getting the next gen truck. I can't wait to see what kind of "gold" they have to get out of the Raptor.
 

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That video defines every reason why svt is the greatest performance division of any of the manufacturers
 

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"There's still a lot of gold to be mined with that solution" - Jamal Hameedi on the Raptor

Looks like the Raptor is here to stay, boys!
From overseeing the Ford GT to Shelby Mustangs to the Raptor, Jamal's been absolutely genius as chief engineer of SVT. Can't wait to see what he does next!
 

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Yeah... That awesome Blue 2012 Raptor at the end of the video!


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All raptors are almost equally amazing, the molten orange ones being slightly better than all the rest, let's just leave it at that
 

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When all the senior writers of motortrend are popping wood under the table over one of your vehicles - you don't stop production.

Was there any doubt that they loved the raptor? First question was "who here has caught air in a raptor"? Everyone.
 

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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.
 
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