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Originally posted by GASPowered:
Ford saves a lot of dough by using the four bolt pattern. Let's see, 1 bolt and lug nut per wheel X 4 wheels per car X cars sold... LOL, I have no clue why.
You'd probably be surprised at how close you are to the real answer. That's pretyt much it exactly. Ford makes THOUSANDS of cars each year. Plus another couple thousand replacement parts, plus when they cross platforms.

So you have THOUSANDS of cars, times 4 wheels. All those nickels and dimes add up to bigger bonuses for the brass. It's all standard business. Just like the anecdote about Delta removing one olive from their martini's served in first class. Supposedly saved them $44K in one year... you get the point...


I love my Contour to death, but my 'vette is still my #1 baby.
There's money to be made in racing. I should know. I put a lot of it there.
You can make a small fortune in racing. Start with a large one.
How fast do you want to go...how much money do you have?
You can fix a lot of things, but you can't fix stupid!