RAPTOR...slowly dying....!????
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From what I've heard parts are already beginning production for it, so I doubt it will be shelved this late in the game.
Rumblings from a certain someone who no longer posts here say we're gonna see it ;-):burnout:
I'm just waiting to see when, NOT if...
To my knowledge the BOSS engine isn't what was in the Raptor to begin with.
6.2 is still on the go. Also have been seeing parts for the raptor at work.
Heard one on hines dr. yesterday. The guy jumped on it and it sounded great.
We'll see who's laughing after sema;-)
do you have any idea what your talking about?
ford needs to clear 08 inventory before the brand new 09 show up!
oke:do you have any idea what your talking about?
ford needs to clear 08 inventory before the brand new 09 show up!
production is waaayy down across the board on ford pickups. When the 09 is released it WILL NOT have the sales figures as the previous models. :read: That being said, the less sales volume there is the less chance there will be specialty models which will require unique tooling/parts/processes. :read:
Maybe but when the truck is already done and 90% of the way through it's testing they aren't going to axe it. If they don't premier it at SEMA and announce that they are indeed going to sell it, I will eat my words:beer:
This will probably be a very short production run. With the way things are going in this country, I can't think of a worse time than now to be launching a gas guzzling, off road truck. At first they'll probably sell ok, but drop off REAL fast. In a year, it'll be like a Hummer, nobody will want one. Hell, 99% of the people that buy one will probably never see a dirt road.
Talk about bad timing.
Talk about bad timing.
the f150 will still outsell every other truck on the road! true sales will look more like they did in the 80's when the workers/contractors were the only ones that purchased them. the truck is not going away, and ford will still make a ton of money on both their f series lines!
i do believe their is a 10k unit market for this truck. hell i see it every weekend when 100's of voyagers head out of town to the dunes. they are mostly driving their lifted 50k crew cabs and towing the 100k sand rails and other toys. the money is out there for a limited run of a specialized high speed off road vehicle! no they will not sell 100k of these trucks in a 5 year run but thats not in the business plan either!
I'm betting the Hummer audience won't overlap entirely with the Raptor, if at all. You wouldn't understand because you're from Michigan (not to be taken offensively, you couldn't know cause there's no desert in Michigan).
The popularity and recognition of the Raptor will probably be more evident in southern California, Nevada, Arizona and Crandon, Wisconson then the rest of the US.
Don't forget new england.
Wheeling around here is scarce, but really the nastiest...
we have it wall, water, rocks, sand mud, trees, mountains, cliffs, you name it!
Wheeling around here is scarce, but really the nastiest...
we have it wall, water, rocks, sand mud, trees, mountains, cliffs, you name it!
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