The stripes, The 18 inch wheels, The engine cover, The "short" shifter, The mythical handling package...Usually Ford waits until a car is actually out, before they start cutting corners and decontenting things.
You may buy the "SVT wanted them story", but I sure don't. I think Ford bit WAY more off than they could chew, and now they are realing at the 11th hour, to get this car back under the sticker they promised. Face it, you simply cant build a car with the same build quality as a foreign competitor car (nissan Z, etc), paying union american workers, and price it thousands less. The math simply doesnt work out. Corners HAVE TO be cut somewhere, and I think we are seeing them now. They pulled the same thing with the Thunderbird, cutting the V6 and manual option at the last second, and constantly fiddling with it to save a penny here and there until it came out. I mean this si supposed to be an ***ALL NEW***, ground up design, and yet they still want to stick us with those hideous torque thrust wheels that are what now? 4 years old? And i can only imagine what those upgrade wheels must weigh. They are a really sharp design, but woudl have been even nice at 18inches with a decent set of tires wrapped around them. The ammount of pure BS that has surrounded this car since it started making appearances at the auto shows is mind boggling. But not new from ford. They pulled the same thing with the Focus, showing everyone the Euro spec ones built in germany at the auto shows and getting everyones hopes up, and then releasing a half assed version of it to the US. It's just sad, why cant these companies just be honest with us from day one.
You may buy the "SVT wanted them story", but I sure don't. I think Ford bit WAY more off than they could chew, and now they are realing at the 11th hour, to get this car back under the sticker they promised. Face it, you simply cant build a car with the same build quality as a foreign competitor car (nissan Z, etc), paying union american workers, and price it thousands less. The math simply doesnt work out. Corners HAVE TO be cut somewhere, and I think we are seeing them now. They pulled the same thing with the Thunderbird, cutting the V6 and manual option at the last second, and constantly fiddling with it to save a penny here and there until it came out. I mean this si supposed to be an ***ALL NEW***, ground up design, and yet they still want to stick us with those hideous torque thrust wheels that are what now? 4 years old? And i can only imagine what those upgrade wheels must weigh. They are a really sharp design, but woudl have been even nice at 18inches with a decent set of tires wrapped around them. The ammount of pure BS that has surrounded this car since it started making appearances at the auto shows is mind boggling. But not new from ford. They pulled the same thing with the Focus, showing everyone the Euro spec ones built in germany at the auto shows and getting everyones hopes up, and then releasing a half assed version of it to the US. It's just sad, why cant these companies just be honest with us from day one.