What's there to complain about when it looks fine and is the baddest truck on the market.
It will be the same thing for the GT500, this car is going to put a hurting on the street and track.
It is supposed to be a GT350R on steroids, it's design has been done for quite some time. Think evolution vs revolution in terms of aesthetics.
Heck it was pretty much just stickers that differentiated a 67 GT350 from the 500
That is not necessarily the case.
I have been in more than a few Mplate vehicles that have inert airbags.
Cars have different purposes, so various aspects of them may be live for various reasons.
This is true, but your timing it a little off. It was much more recent that Ford and Magna had developed the CFPP subframe with actual production feasibility.
It's all about cost. Even in the sedan slump Ford sells over 3x as many fusions as they do Mustangs. Furthermore electrification gets...
You can find S550 Body in whites from $1 to like $10k, some times companies or shops have them, and they just want to unload them.
Mildly hit GT350s seems to hovers around 30K.
I can see it being advantageous from a cost perspective, as generally most of the components you would be swapping...
The body comprises most of that, and are obviously identical. The rad support is CFRP, and is alot closer than most people think. Build fixtures and the assembly process want to be a similar as possible.
I think you could get away with fenders & fender brackets, hood, fascia components.
Most...
I will say this, both my brother and sister have bought Ford's from Fred Beans Ford and had a very good experiences. Brother had an engine failure in his fusion, which may have been to a oil filter improperly installed by him.
They where pretty good and worked with him and Ford to get...
You can't just think of it as scraping it. Tooling only lasts so long, so you can by another set of the same, tweak it for material type, thickness, or completely change it, for example hood tools for the 18' MCA.
There is a financial point where buying a whole other set of tools versus...