why was it stopped?

[Grims_Puma]

Why oh why did they stop production on the ford puma? and when was it for that matter? I recon and up to date ford puma with all this days mod cons would wipe everything of the books

 

[jacko]

i heard ford used 'soft' tooling that was only designed to last a production run of x amount of cars. prob cheaper as they werent expecting to sell as many pumas as say a fiesta....

glad they didnt make a mk2 tho.... its kept the puma 'original' and classic in waiting

 

[batman]

why do things normally get discontinued ?

they didnt sell enough

 

[YOG]

Well, that's where you're wrong, it was because it was soft tooling as Jacko said.

 

[pumapilot]

The Puma was the ONLY Ford ever made that had a waiting list

 

[Dal]

As well as the soft tooling, the production line in Cologne was needed to make another car at the end of 2001 / beginning of 2002.

And out of the 140,000 ish sold, Ford only had a contract with yamaha for 100,000 1.7 engines for which the Puma was adapted from the Fiesta for originally.

Apparently.

 

[natch97]

the gt40 had a waiting list.

 

[Qwertben]

well arnt they redoing the puma in to that ugly thing, theres a post about it sumwhere

 

[batman]

do yahama still make engines for any recent cars

 

[XIIVVX]

A good friend of mine was the finance supremo at Ford who signed off the Puma project to production.

It's one of the things of which he remains proud (now retired)

As has been said the Puma maintained a waiting list through most of its product life and was discontinued when the Fiesta floorpan on which it was built went out of production

 

[Grims_Puma]

i am not a big fan of the Festers i think they look ugly as sin they should have just kept going with the puma I would be interested to see if they had thought about a MK2 puma

A good friend of mine was the finance supremo at Ford who signed off the Puma project to production.

It's one of the things of which he remains proud (now retired)

As has been said the Puma maintained a waiting list through most of its product life and was discontinued when the Fiesta floorpan on which it was built went out of production

i would like to read up on this anyone know where the topic is?

well arnt they redoing the puma in to that ugly thing, theres a post about it sumwhere

 

[XIIVVX]

The Puma was tied into the Yamaha contract, Ford had to use the engine in something.

Once that imperative had gone the launch of a new version of such a tiny niche product would have been of little interest to Ford, who were at that time struggling with massive problems across the world

 

[Grims_Puma]

ahh i see, even so it would have been nice to see a MK2

Mod edit - no need to quote above post

 

[XIIVVX]

As you are interested it might be worth keeping your eyes open for Ford's

"Puma - The Inside Story"

on e-Bay.

New owners were given this I think when they signed up for the official Owners Club (I certainly have a copy)

 

[Grims_Puma]

make me a copy and send it to me
How much do these go for on ebay?

MOD EDIT - NO NEED TO QUOTE ABOVE POST

 

[Dal]

make me a copy and send it to me
How much do these go for on ebay?

http://shop.ebay.co.uk/i.html?_nkw=puma+inside+story&_sacat=0&_trksid=p3286.m270.l1313&_odkw=puma+book&_osacat=0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

 

[batman]

As you are interested it might be worth keeping your eyes open for Ford's

"Puma - The Inside Story"

on e-Bay.

New owners were given this I think when they signed up for the official Owners Club (I certainly have a copy)

what does it include?

is it worth the £17 ebay price?

 

[spike.]

its a book...

 

[batman]

its a book...

never i thought it was a house

have you read it or not?

what does it include?

 

[Grims_Puma]

ill take a look at home, my work computer wont let me access ebay thanks though

make me a copy and send it to me
How much do these go for on ebay?

http://shop.ebay.co.uk/i.html?_nkw=puma+inside+story&_sacat=0&_trksid=p3286.m270.l1313&_odkw=puma+book&_osacat=0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;