It's sad that I have zero trouble believing this ...
My coworker/mentor has a friend (Larry) that use to own 100 acres in Ocotillo Wells, CA (recently retired) where Ford and suspension companies such as Bilstein would do their testing. He had guests suites setup so engineers and such could stay on the property for weeks on ends. To give you an idea, Ocotillo Wells is 85,000 acres of open land (Some of it BLM) and is where everyone goes to off-road their vehicle here in Southern California. The reason why these manufactures tested on his property is because no one could see what was going on his private land.
Well, my coworker would help Larry cater these guys as it usually takes a team to cook, clean, provide information about the land and etc. Well early on in the developing stages, the Ford marketing team and some engineers were against the SVT engineers on manufacturing the "Raptor". They said it was overpriced, does not fit the consumer demands and so on. Booyyyyy were they wrong haha.