Yeah, that’s been my issue. Schedule me or don’t. If Ford didn’t send me a “you’re scheduled” email in December for January, I’d have no expectation for my Bronco to be built. Moving it back 4 months, a few weeks at a time is a terrible customer experience. Still, it’s better than my Bronco...
Well it should fit and probably bolt up to 10R. But everything else is hard. It’ll be easier to do a 5.0L V8 swap. There is way more support for such a swap in the US.
My source is two people from Ford that I trust and would have knowledge of the situation. I don't have any internal e-mails or anything, but I have good Ford insiders. I suppose I have enough to write about it for an automotive site, but it'd prefer to see some sort of documentation to write...
There won't be a base 4-door 7-speed and there won't be a 2.7TT with the 7-speed. The former is because Ford wants you to go to the next trim. The latter is because the 2.7TT kept blowing up the 7-speed crawler gear during testing.
Raptor was the right choice because Ford will eventually have a stable of Raptor vehicles in North America. They are leaning into the following brands: Bronco, F-Series, Mustang, Explorer, Raptor, etc. They know what sells and continue to hit those notes. NO ONE is going to say, "I don't want...