w3rkn
Well-Known Member
Of course it is very different.
In the GT350 - Ford's Halo Performance Car - they *** KNEW*** that a a cooling package was needed for track work. And they deliberately left it off a the two most popular configuration (Base and Tech Pack), and even made it impossible to get it with the very popular Tech Pack config.
That is knowingly leaving off a cooling package that is required for enjoying a performance car on track.
The other examples you cited (vibration, stop sales, etc) are quality/design escapes, not previously known to the manufacture, and not deliberate.
Listen. There is no need to debate this as it relates to the GT350. Ford recognized its mistake and in 2017 made the minimum needed cooling package standard.
The *** only question *** in my mind is: Why are they doing it again with the PP2? Why leave the cooling package off, not offer it even as an option, and hide behind a statement in the owner's manual?
Makes no sense to me, particularly when the competition imposes no such drama on buyers.
I don't know why you are purposely trying to conflate two different things.
First off, Ford Performance did know, that is why the more expensive GT350R had a cooler. It was just a bad marketing decision to leave it off the rest of the Voodoo engines. Ford remedied that.
Secondly, what does the 2016 GT350 w/voodoo... have to do with the 2018 GT with a brand new Coyote ..?
Lastly, are you aware that Ford Performance races their engines on the weekends and there is a performance book full of parts...?
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