Post by Redforever on Jun 21, 2012 21:06:09 GMT 10
Talk about throwing good money after bad. With sales of the Falcon falling and no hero V8 Ford model. FPV the part Prodrive owned fast Falcon company invested a mind boggling $30 million on the new supercharged Miami V8. And that investment has paid off how you may wonder?
Check out the link below and apart from sacking a substantial number of senior staff (for the second time in 5 years), including their recently returned from cancer treatment general manager. FPV have managed to fire up their sales to the point where up until April this year and despite the huge investment in a new engine they are now being outsold by HSV at the staggering rate of more than three cars to one.
Exactly why they didn't just do a tune on the Miami V8 and get around 320kw's instead of the huge investment in supercharging it and then screwing the boost back to the point where it makes a poultry 10kw's more than a HSV GTS is anyone's guess.
I would have liked to have seen the business case that approved $30 million in investment in a new engine in a declining sales environment that produces a whole 10kw's more than your opposition and in base supercharged form actually makes less power than your oppositions base engine.
And now they're in financial trouble.
Well no **** Sherlock!!!!!
www.carsguide.com.au/site/news-and-reviews/car-news/fpv_in_crisis_after_mass_firing?from=ms
Check out the link below and apart from sacking a substantial number of senior staff (for the second time in 5 years), including their recently returned from cancer treatment general manager. FPV have managed to fire up their sales to the point where up until April this year and despite the huge investment in a new engine they are now being outsold by HSV at the staggering rate of more than three cars to one.
Exactly why they didn't just do a tune on the Miami V8 and get around 320kw's instead of the huge investment in supercharging it and then screwing the boost back to the point where it makes a poultry 10kw's more than a HSV GTS is anyone's guess.
I would have liked to have seen the business case that approved $30 million in investment in a new engine in a declining sales environment that produces a whole 10kw's more than your opposition and in base supercharged form actually makes less power than your oppositions base engine.
And now they're in financial trouble.
Well no **** Sherlock!!!!!
www.carsguide.com.au/site/news-and-reviews/car-news/fpv_in_crisis_after_mass_firing?from=ms
