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Originally Posted by LOWDOWN
First of all, and this is a KEY point, "they" did NOT say "BOSS LS"...Dave said "BOSS". And where's the data to back the rhetoric, which this not-ready-for-prime-time launch has been full of...? They also said 200-300 lbs, but fail to release a HINT of Curb Weight specs on ANY version to ANYONE. Why?
KEY point is, every time a Ford fan, and employee, talks PRICE it's the BOSS, and when they talk performance metrics vs. "competition" (but NOT against themselves!) it's the BOSS LS. Why?
Because THAT answers the same question you keep repeating in thinly disguised format, time-after-time.
Ford built TWO BOSSES...one for VOLUME, and therefore the price leader, named BOSS (NO GM engine suffix!) and the other named BOSS LS which, built in numbers pretty equal to what we'll actually see for the Z/28, is the ONLY one that Ford authorized for track-testing. And it was "handled by the le$$-than-BOSS (NO suffix) 1LE.
Without the Hertz Rental-version BOSS (NO suffix) to counter development costs of the 444 hp BOSS engine, what might the ACTUAL selling price of those roughly-1500-only BOSS LS (WITH suffix) be? $55,000? $60,000?
Go ask Dave...and quote him CORRECTLY...
BTW, I find it charming that FORD would sell a halo Mustang with a GM ENGINE FAMILY designation on it...kinda like a Camaro with a "Coyote" badge... NOT!
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Sorry but I have to correct you, as "they" did say Boss 302 LAGUNA SECA. Please see below:
"Now, we have one more for all of you: The V-8-powered 2015 Mustang GT with the Track Pack will be even quicker and better-performing than the vaunted Mustang Boss 302 Laguna Seca edition. According to Ford Mustang communications representative Brian Cotter, the new muscle car is being aimed at exceeding the lofty benchmarks set by the stripped-out, pared-down Boss 302 Laguna Seca, a model that doesn't even come with a back seat. Although Cotter wasn't at liberty to give us specific times and figures, he said that the car would sweep the Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca bends at a time that would come under its predecessor's blistering 1:39.5 pace."
Also note, the Boss Laguna Seca engine was a direct port from the Ford's race car program. The same engine as that powering Conti Challenge Mustangs. So not unlike GM taking the existing z06 engine and plunking it down into z28, Ford did the same with theirs.