Ford kills off SVT

[Dimitrios]

Did a search, didn't see anything:

http://www.autoblog.com/2006/03/08/ford-kills-svt-2007-shelby-cobra-mustang-to-be-performance-div/

Ford kills SVT - 2007 Shelby Cobra Mustang to be performance division's swan song

Posted Mar 8th 2006 7:00AM by Erin Mays (http://www.autoblog.com/bloggers/erin-mays)
Filed under: Motorsports (http://www.autoblog.com/category/motorsports/), Sports/GTs (http://www.autoblog.com/category/sports/)

http://www.autoblog.com/media/2006/03/07FordShelby-RIP.jpg
(http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/Columns/articleId=109512)


Inside Line has the skinny on something that will bring tears to the eyes of many a high-performance enthusiast... the end of SVT as we know it is close at hand. Stephen Cole Smith of Inside Line predicted such a fate for Ford's in-house skunkworks, and on on April 1, 2006 he'll be proven right.



According to Cole, as of this moment SVT's PR/marketing staff, engineering staff, dealer network, press fleet and events trailer (all exclusively dedicated to the division) have been dismantled. The 2007 Shelby Cobra-badged Mustang will be the last vehicle to be developed, start to finish, by the SVT program. If anything, Cole says, we might get a vehicle with an SVT-tuned suspension. Maybe.

RIP SVT

(Thanks to Hank for the tip)

[mikeyb]

It is a repost. But its from a different source.

http://www.msprotege.com/forum/showthread.php?t=123628065

[Dimitrios]

Thanks...

[tunersteve]

This might be a long shot, but all of this is supposed to go down on April 1, and there is a small possibility that they're trying some sick sort of joke. Not sure, but there is a possibility.