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How was the Lightning not a success? It was a low volume SVT vehicle from the start and they sold everyone they could make. They were quick and handled well, were fun to drive, and could haul what you need in the bed and tow 6000 pounds.
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I liked the thing, but they did it all wrong. They should have never made it convertible, they should have had the LS2 from the beginning, had a real bed that could actually stuff, they needed to be able to actually tow something, and they should have been 10k cheaper.
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06-28-2013, 10:29 AM | #45 |
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All show and no go? At least compared to other upgraded Ford trucks. Will the new Ford SVT F-150 be call the "Quake" if this is just a little "Tremor?"
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I think some people are slightly missing the point of this truck, its not meant to be a performance truck like the Lightning was. Its supposed to be a sporty looking truck with decent performance.
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I was watching a youtube channel Tfl car did a quick vid of it and one of the people that I guess was a ford engineer quoted saying 6.5 to 60 in the tremor im guessing 2wd version but who knows that might be a lil bit of a sand bag number.
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I hope that is a sandbagged number. motor trend ran the 2009 Ram R/T 0-60 in 5.7 and the 1/4 mile in 14.4@93.4. That was with the 5 speed, not even the 6 speed, automatic and it will have the 8 speed auto for 14, not to mention the 5.7 Hemi has picked up a little power. |
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They may have been quick in a straight line, but they were heavy, inefficient, handled nothing like sports car, and didn't have near the capability of a regular truck. They were in all categories a compromise...a quintessential example of trying to do all things at the same time, and ending up doing no single thing particularly well. I restate my earlier argument. Trucks do not make good sports cars. Ford had the right idea with the SVT Raptor. If you are going to make a high performance truck, make it excel specifically at doing truck things, not mediocre at doing sports car things.
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Tremor huh?? Do big worms chase it all the time or something?
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Raptor does truck things? Flying across bumps is not a truck thing that is a Baja thing. The Raptor sucks at towing I had to endure the bounces of that "truck" suspension for over 500 miles one trip and never again. |
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You just did. Your every comment will be permanently saved in a 100 zetta-byte data center in Utah.
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That was my point. If you want the driving characteristics of a car, you don't want a truck.
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The slower 99 model from motor trend. 0-60 5.6, 1/4 mile in 14.1@96, 131 ft 60-0 (remember it is 99 and this is inline with a lot of cars), No handling numbers in this test though. 2001 0-50 5.5, .87g on the skidpad (eclipsing a number of performance cars of the day, 59.2 skidpad, again comparable to cars of the time. The thing is, being a truck, it did ride rough to get those times. http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/...g/viewall.html Finally they had an 03 Lightning do 0-60 in 5.2 and the 1/4 mile in 13.7, unfortunaltly the short paragragh on Motor Trends website didn't go ino anymore detail. For it's time it was right in line with performance cars, hauled and towed like a light truck, and they sold everyone they could. Also just because you don't see many on the roads now does not mean they weren't a success, when they were on the market they were everywhere. I don't see many early 90s Tauruses on the road either, but i know they sold as many of them in a few months as the lightning did it's whole production run. |
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