Love trucks or hate 'em, Lightning is at the very least interesting. Plenty of $30,000 trucks have comparably feeble performance and only a bit more utility than the Lightning. Value? A similarly equipped F-150 Lariat costs nearly $24,000. The look, the muscle-car feel and the supercharger whine all move the Lightning further away from an ordinary F-150 than is the case with a Cobra or an SVT Contour compared to their standard-production counterparts. The 1999 Lightning is as close as SVT has come to achieving its mission. There are high-level bean counters who would gleefully pull the plug on Ford's Special Vehicle Team. In volume and profit potential, SVT represents a speck in the Ford universe, whether or not it has had the image-building impact Ford hoped for eight years ago. The Lightning will account for just 4000 of some 900,000 F-Series pickups built, and only 590 of the 4300 Ford dealerships are certified to sell SVT products. If SVT has a good year, it will move a total of 14,000 Mustang Cobras, SVT Contours and F-150 Lightnings. will sell roughly seven million cars and trucks in 1999. Irrespective of SVT's success or failure, give Ford credit for sticking with the concept. It goes on sale this month with a suggested retail price of $29,995, including destination charge.įord's Special Vehicle Team was created in late 1991 to build cars with "Performance, Substance, Exclusivity and Value." Inherent in that mission, according to current SVT marketing chief Tom Scarpello, is a desire to create cars that appeal to enthusiast drivers, or buyers who might otherwise find nothing to like in Ford's model line. It's different, of course, but no less striking, and it comes with the utility of an 800-pound payload and 5000-pound towing capacity. The Lightning has at least as much visual impact as any of those cars. Those numbers would make it quicker than a Porsche Boxster, and put it within range of BMW's M3. Experience suggests the Lightning will break the six-second 0-to-60-mph bar-rier, with quarter-mile runs in the mid-14s. If the engineers are correct (we found no reason to doubt them), then the Lightning is faster than autobahn blasters such as the Audi A8 4.2 quattro, the BMW M coupe and the Mercedes-Benz E430. 71 overdrive top-gear ratio, the 1999 F-150 Lightning reaches a drag-limited top speed of 140 mph. SVT engineers say that, with 360 horsepower, 440 lb-ft of torque and a. Either way, you might be left with the impression that the best car from Ford's Special Vehicle Team is a truck. Call the 1999 Ford SVT Lightning the logical next step in the truck craze, or the "personal-use pickup" gone mad. Odd images, maybe, but not out of character with the times.
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Inside the cabs, as the pickups wheeled onto the main straight, weight shifting rearward and engines at full song, there might be visions of big-block muscle cars of yore, if not for the loud, almost harsh whine from the Eaton superchargers. These F-150s seem small from 30 feet away-low, and sleek out of proportion to their true heft. The trucks would look tiny from the paid seats. Trucks behaving like 4700-pound speed sleds, tires screeching, tails sliding, front wheels cocked opposite the direction of the curves. A couple of driving school instructors and some automotive hacks were throwing Ford F-150s around the infield course at speeds hard to envision with pickups.
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