Out With The Modular, In With The Boss

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This whole thing was reading great up until that last sentence. Then the air just went out of the balloon.

Finally back to 5.0 liters standard. It's about freakin' time. Screw next year's Boss that nobody will be able to buy anyway. We can wait for the '08 that will hopefully be tweakable to reach the Boss' specs.

Sounds good to me!

Patrick, stop drooling. ;) These stories are nothing but bait. Wait until some actual product shows up. The interesting thing is the news about the Boss/Hurricane motor. It's a necessity if Ford will be competitive with DC and GM in the next few years.

Joe Calypso Green '93 5.0 LX AOD hatch with a few goodies Black '03 Dakota 5.9 R/T CC

I know! The car the hard-core enthusiast would die for and they're only planning on building 1000. C'mon Ford! Build as many as you can sell.

The return of the LX 5.0!!

IMO, the Detroit-3 could really get some great publicity but more importantly respect from younger buyers if they do this.

I read the bit about the stripped-down Boss, and could almost see your eyes glaze over.

Not only the return of the LX 5.0, but the return of the No Option LX 5.0 (w/ AC delete).

:()

They also launched a newer 5.0 Boss pushrod engine in the Ford Racing catalog. They are really pushing the Boss name.

As per the post I am also upset about the 1,000 limited production Boss run. With all these specialty cars I guess they are afraid to dilute any one of them. IMO what really made the Mustang was the fact it is an affordable sports car for the masses. They should sell as many as they possibly can and remember the market segment that want these cars.

There ya go... for those who want the engine, buy ya a used BOL V6, 2nd mortgage on house and a Discount at the Mustang aftermarket store....

I can understand that. But 20 years from now... if you buy one... will you STILL be upset about that?

I DO think 3,000 would be better.

And damn right! Worst thing they could do is build more than they can sell.

And WHAT does THAT have to do with this issue? Think about what you're saying there.

Helll yeh! Screw the mod, shitcan the V6, make 'em all firebreathin' dragons, like the last of the Camabirds... now THERE was a car line didnt take no market/demographic bullshit into account!!!!!

Idiot!

Who knows what it will be worth in 20 years... It's not like most Boss

So build to order. Meet demand exactly.

It has it's own manufacturing challenges, but it's not like it couldn't be done with a little risk of having a few spare engines and suspension parts, which if ford was smart, they would be selling as aftermarket upgrades anyway. Didn't make enough to use up the inventory of special parts? Sell them as upgrades at a goodly profit.

Then that rules out building them at Ford... unless the buyer is willing to wait 3 or 6 months. The lines arent run the same as they were when they built the SVO.

Could have Roush, or Saleen build them.

Considering this appears to be one of the few niches Ford has to exploit at the moment, they'll need to figure out how to do it in order to maximize it's profits rather than the dealerships'.

Obviously they understand to get the most out of the Mustang market they know they need to have a variety of Mustangs as everyone doesn't want the same car as everyone else. It's a question of exploiting that to maximum profit. Flexible manufacturing could really help there.

Assuming as you do its meant for a newer car, sigh... These Boss blocks are cheaper then their racing R302 blocks. I personally like the idea of Ford creating a stronger 302 block that is affordable for tuner cars, kit cars, or whatever your heart desires.

What makes you think this will be affordable to own now? Especially since this is about 10x harder to own then a Shelby GT500? Perhaps the mark up on these cars will be well over $40k? And 20 years from now when anything can be reproduced for far less then ever before, cars perform even better in all aspects, and newer fuel sources that make cars 20 years old obsolete and taxed to get off the road. I dont think cars will be as collectable in the future unless for the mere aspect of art.

Who said anything about building more then they can sell? If there is a huge mark up on specialty cars that means the supply is not meeting the demand! I am saying from present experience if 10k specialty cars are extremely hard to get and marked up, what do you think 1,000 would do? Come on even you can figure this out Krusty. :)

What's your point here? Mine is if they continue to piss off the consumer they wont have any buyers. The Mustang's specialty cars should be embraced by those who made the cars a success in the first place.

Huh? The Camaro Firebird also sold a v6. Part of GM's problem was competing within with the Camaro, Firebird, and Corvette. Their quality was horrible, manual trannies were very limited, and pricing a tad over. Not to mention the cars were produced in Canada not America.