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I have been a dealer since 1992 I believe and at the present time Ford Performance seems like a ghost ship just floating around lost. They use Ford Performance to train engineers and managers and have a constant turnover. Over at GM it seems that you hear the same names forever running the performance business. They work until they can no longer operate their walker safely and are then put out to pasture. It is difficult to beat experience with trainees. It appears to me that the CJ program is falling further behind every race. I don't see the extra 12 cubic inches of the next CJ engine solving the problem. I have had little contact with Mike but he was pleasant to deal with. I believe that they need to put a younger person in the job that does not have as many other interests as Mike. Someone with some fire in his gut who want to work seven days a week trying to outrun the competition.

Roland