Also from an economics and accounting standpoint you van run into diseconomies of scale fairly rapidly... especially on a product originally designed for limited production... I a sure if ford really wanted to ramp up they would want to feel the fiberglass parts of the truck in metal... fiberglass costs less in small batches but metal is better in large ones... the middle ground is very murky...
You also run into supplier problems... if fox was originally tapped for 25k shocks per year (6250 trucks) and you then up it to 120k a year they may not be able to keep up. If they do quality control will suffer.
On that subject, I guarantee the Raptor is going to have more problems per unit than a regular f150. The limited number units means that these problems will be lesser burden to ford financially and will be restricted to bleeding edge customers, who are more likely to accept a few rough edges to have the best of the breed.
More trucks also meandering more dealer inventories, which means more incentives, which means less profit per truck... it means less prestige... which means dealers are.not going to get. Sri let for heir units, which hurts our resale... it means higher required parts inventories which amounts to higher overhead...
More is generally not better... more is just more... it is the problem that Chrysler especially is having, as is GM to a lesser extent. If you build them they will come, but will expect 10k off of sticker... hell I waited a few months to order mine and my price went from thousands over sticker to hundreds over invoice, and that is with the relatively low production.
The secret to in inventory management for a luxury product is to have a steady supply and just enough on hand below actual real demand to have people hungry enough to wait but not have to wait so long they buy their toys elsewhere. Dearborn seems to have this well on hand. With this truck at least.
