The Thailand Special Thread - New Developments/News

[Franco Cozzo]

Originally Posted by XR Martin

If they did that it's more than $6k worth.

Double that figure and that's conservative

Probably somewhere around 2.5x is accurate if you were getting it all done through the dealership, it costs me around $8,000 just in parts alone to buy a complete injector kit for a 1VD-FTV.

Saw a pantech Mercedes sprinter cab chassis fridge van today, this is a market the new Ranger Super Duty could cut into.

I wonder if Ford Australia is going to partner up with second stage manufacturers locally to deliver 'out the box' solutions to the services and trades industry, like Isuzu Truck does:

https://www.isuzu.com.au/our-range/ready-to-work/

You can walk in and order a couple different configurations of the base vehicle and it's delivered as a kitted out vehicle, rather than taking delivery of a cab chassis vehicle then organising with a second stage manufacturer to turn it into what you need.

I've done a bit of work with Isuzu truck in the past, they have an in house engineering team that partners with local industry to deliver their customers OEM quality out the box solutions for their new vehicle orders.