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2020+ Shelby GT500 Mustang
Who approves final decisions on FORD vehicles?
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<blockquote data-quote="Tob" data-source="post: 16105350" data-attributes="member: 83412"><p>You can't please everyone. For decades now Ford has catered their top dog Mustang to those interested in only one transmission. They are doing the same thing now only this time a different crowd is getting deference.</p><p></p><p>All three transmissions are expensive to develop. Cost for the 10-speed is being spread fairly wide. Ford has no 6 or 7 speed manual in current use in a RWD V8 passenger car that can handle the kind of power the GT500 puts out. Any transmission they decide upon has to be uniquely tailored to work in this specific application. Regardless of any of the three choices, cost for a given unit is going to be "expensive" due to the low volume nature of the car. So to your original statement - if you cut the production of one transmission type in half so that you can introduce another you raise the cost of each significantly, hence why Ford has chosen to stick with only one for all these years.</p><p></p><p>The sense that a DCT is always more expensive than say, an automatic, is not always necessarily true. While I suspect you won't, I suggest you read the following all the way to the end to gain a better understanding. There is much to be learned from it and you'll gain a better understanding as to manufacturing costs of manual, automatic, and DCT transmissions.</p><p><a href="https://www.nap.edu/read/21744/chapter/7" target="_blank">https://www.nap.edu/read/21744/chapter/7</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tob, post: 16105350, member: 83412"] You can't please everyone. For decades now Ford has catered their top dog Mustang to those interested in only one transmission. They are doing the same thing now only this time a different crowd is getting deference. All three transmissions are expensive to develop. Cost for the 10-speed is being spread fairly wide. Ford has no 6 or 7 speed manual in current use in a RWD V8 passenger car that can handle the kind of power the GT500 puts out. Any transmission they decide upon has to be uniquely tailored to work in this specific application. Regardless of any of the three choices, cost for a given unit is going to be "expensive" due to the low volume nature of the car. So to your original statement - if you cut the production of one transmission type in half so that you can introduce another you raise the cost of each significantly, hence why Ford has chosen to stick with only one for all these years. The sense that a DCT is always more expensive than say, an automatic, is not always necessarily true. While I suspect you won't, I suggest you read the following all the way to the end to gain a better understanding. There is much to be learned from it and you'll gain a better understanding as to manufacturing costs of manual, automatic, and DCT transmissions. [URL]https://www.nap.edu/read/21744/chapter/7[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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