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Old 03-19-2013, 09:48 PM   #157
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I mentioned this in the other thread, but just to clarify things, this is not intended for consumers to buy. It is for racing teams only. Here is a Ford Mustang Boss 302 for $132,000 for Grand Am racing. There is also one on the site for the Pirelli Series, but it doesn't have a price. Scion Racing doesn't sell bodies in white like this, but they are offering the supercharger to teams that want to run an FR-S in the series per the rules. If you want to race a Mustang in this series, you can buy this one from Ford for $130,000. If you want to race a Scion, you can buy one and strip it and put in the supercharger for $26,000 (among lots of other expenses that will probably end up making it cost more to run than the Ford, as evidenced by the fact that there are 7 Mustangs in the series and 1 Scion). Racing isn't cheap, hate to break it to you. According to the logic in this thread, Ford sells these for this much because they are trying to get people not to buy it

http://www.fordracingparts.com/parts...KeyField=13517

The good news is that car companies have these racing development arms for a reason. They are almost certainly looking to develop this into a production ready package at some point, where the real money is. Unless they start winning a lot of races and the FR-S becomes the hot car to run (unlikely in an American series with Americans making the rules), I doubt they'll make any money selling the competition kit.
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