Originally Posted by LEADERS EDGE:
Keith......didn't you at one time toward the end of your involvement start putting out indications the focus motors were going by the wayside and that there was a new and more expensive motor that would eventually be implemented? Wasn't the original cost $75 or $7900 and it was near $10 or over $10 by the time you got out?
When we started the program I charged $7400 for a complete, new engine. Toward the end I raised that to $7900 because of increasing component costs. Whatever Roush later did with the remaining inventory I built, I had no control over. As far as my stating that motors were "going by the wayside"… what I said was that the Zetec was going out of production (which it was) and that, at the time, Ford had expressed an interest in going to the 2.3 Duratec. That never happened.