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Originally Posted by Bhobbs
Do you honestly believe the GT500 was sold at a loss? How about the BOSS 302? It had a low production, specialty engine.
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No...but you're getting some "insight" as to just how inexpensive a Mustang was to produce after being unchanged (relatively) from MY '05 through '12-'13-'14. 10 years of tooling amortization benefitted the MSRP of the BOSS and the 500. THAT'S how they could "afford" (no pun) to splurge on a couple of engines.
Did the Base V6 and GT prices drop? No. They subsidized a relative handful of "haloes". FACT.
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Originally Posted by Bhobbs
I get those parts are expensive but it doesn't change the fact that Ford was able to put a similarly expensive engine in the GT500 and not price it around the Z06.
The BOSS 302 got a fully forged bottom end, CNC ported heads and a deep breathing intake in a mid $40s car.
Why is Ford capable of doing that and GM isn't?
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