Ford Hurricane engine program has been discontinued
 

04 February 2005
Robert LaneContact the author of this article here.

BlueOvalNews was told by Ford employees that the Ford Hurricane engine program has been discontinued primarily due to financial concerns. The Hurricane engine program was launched to fight Chrysler's venerable Hemi engine.

An article published in Ward's "Ford Shelves Hurricane Engine Program" by John D. Stoll said that Ford sent a memo to Ford employees working on the Hurricane program that is was being discontinued.

The engine cancellation is attributed to a shortfall in available funding from Ford, the belief that the appetite for large engines is a temporary fad, and resources are needed for the continued development of Ford's next generation V6 engine.

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I find it hard to believe that they would go through such a large project, spend money setting it up and then saying that they now thing it's a fad and they have no money.

Any professional company would never have started a project without seeing if it was feasible first. But then to go and even list 2 completely different reasons for shutting down the project just stinks of BS too.

Regardless, it's just what they say in public, people never know the real reasons about this kind of stuff.

it could be the truth. from an economics standpoint a company will do what is best for itself at any given point in time. if it suddenly feels that scapping the program is in its best interrest it will. it would be cool to have this hurricane engine though :)