Ford pulls plug on Lightning and most of SVT!!!

I'm sure it's of interest to a lot of you to know that Ford has effectively scrapped most of their SVT program. Apparently is the decision of beancounters trying to improve the bottom line. Apparently the Cobra program will remain online but will be delayed, the Lighting program is as good as dead, and the SVT Focus is gone. Personally I'm mourning the death of the Lightning more than anything. There are enough boring cars and trucks in this world and finally when something exciting comes along, cost controllers want to kill it. SVT vehicles polish the Ford image and the positive comments given any of these vehicles do more for advertising than the hundreds of millions they spend on newpaper and TV ads. SVT's are the Bosses and Cobra Jets of the future. Imagine if Ford had pulled a move like this in the mid 60's and we didn't have Shelby's, CJ's and Bosses? There is however quite a movement taking place on various levels to swamp Ford with emails, petitions, faxes and letters, urging them to reconsider this move. This worked in the mid 80's with the Mustang and look where the Mustang is today, it very well could work again. I faxed SVT and gave them my phone number and they returned my call in less than an hour and assured me that it would be passed on to the appropriate people. I urge anybody with a interest in SVT vehicles to do something similar.

Contact Ford SVT

Mailing address:
Ford SVT Information Center
PO Box 490 Dearborn MI 48121

Ph: 1-800-FORD-SVT

Fax: 313-621-2500

Hours: Mon-Fri 8:30am-6:00pm


Websites and petition pages:

http://www.petitiononline.com/savesvt/petition.html

http://www.f150online.com/forums/sho...hreadid=172474
[addsig]

I recall talking to a Chevy dealer about the SS pickup and why it is not a short bed single cab. He said simply 100% of manufacturing is per the marketing wimps. "Whatever sells the most.....preriod." I think the insurance trashballs may have ahand in this as well. Slowly, but surely thay are legislating "fun" out of America. It's kinda like watching the death of a cowboy.

I saw on the show trucks on The mens network(formally TNN) that chevy had came up with the joe gibbs edition with a 4.7 supercharged v8
[addsig]

<TABLE BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER WIDTH=85%><TR><TD><font size=-1>Quote:</font><HR></TD></TR><TR><TD><FONT SIZE=-1><BLOCKQUOTE>
On 2004-12-10 12:56, fmdog44 wrote:
I recall talking to a Chevy dealer about the SS pickup and why it is not a short bed single cab. He said simply 100% of manufacturing is per the marketing wimps. "Whatever sells the most.....preriod." I think the insurance trashballs may have ahand in this as well. Slowly, but surely thay are legislating "fun" out of America. It's kinda like watching the death of a cowboy.
</BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></TD></TR><TR><TD><HR></TD></TR></TABLE>

I don't know, they are still making some of the fastest production cars, EVER.

Pickups have NEVER ran like they do now. They do everything the old ones did, better, except they are now a pain to work on.

Some of the new trucks are plusher then the luxery cars from the 70s-80s, and they'll outrun alot of the old 'muscle cars' to boot. That still blows my mind. Not to mention get the same or better milage while doing it.

Too bad for me that they quit making trucks after 1979...
[addsig]