The second part of your question is to do with politics, time and funds.
You know when Detroit had to sign off on the ride night of T3? Well something similar occurred with Miami. It had an approval number stuck to it.
The black concept car was to produce 3 models.
The black as we saw was an immediate production model
The Rspec followed and focused on the suspension as depicted by the concept
The 3rd was to be.............
Prodrive and Ford parted ways. Not because of any argument over product funding but rather a very large elephant called closure.
Ford invested considerable funds in acquiring the FPV business and relocating shops.
From that point in however Ford was all about saving money. We saw some FPV models retired, process streamlined to return higher profits but no product advancement.
This brings us up to the FPV end announcement with a time line and a dream to go out in the best way possible.
The approval for GTF power didn’t come from Australia. It wasn’t an easy thing to get in but it’s the start of a beautiful story
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