Joel,
You're right about Pierce having the marketing side of things nailed like no other manufacturer does. A lot of people have said, "all the hype for this?" when it's nothing quite as big as the release of the Quantum or the Dash CF. But, it works! They hype it some, then it gets people taking about it on the forums and the Facebook pages, which translates into free advertising for them, and even though it's not a huge cab release, here we are still talking about it days later. This is the stuff that marketing firms dream of.
As for the Enforcer cab itself, it will provide you with the option for a big block, TAK4, and airbags, things that you won't find on the updated Saber.
All Saber products will come from Florida, and the Enforcers will be an Appleton product.
The Saber and Enforcer are 96" wide cabs whereas the Velocity and Impel are 100" cabs.
Piece is trying to address the fact that a lot of customers are asking for a traditional looking cab without sacrificing some of the features that are found on their other models.
The Enforcer will be competing with the Impel SLT and the Arrow XT, and I'd have to say that of those chassis, the Enforcer would be my choice. It's a more simplistic cab with more officer's room than the XT and more traditional looks than the Impel.
Let the speculation begin about what will be the next chassis axed. When you're offering the Saber, Impel SLT, Impel, Saber, Enforcer, Velocity, Arrow XT, Dash CF, and Quantum but only selling about 1600 rigs a year, something will have to give to keep the engineering and production costs down.
You're right about Pierce having the marketing side of things nailed like no other manufacturer does. A lot of people have said, "all the hype for this?" when it's nothing quite as big as the release of the Quantum or the Dash CF. But, it works! They hype it some, then it gets people taking about it on the forums and the Facebook pages, which translates into free advertising for them, and even though it's not a huge cab release, here we are still talking about it days later. This is the stuff that marketing firms dream of.
As for the Enforcer cab itself, it will provide you with the option for a big block, TAK4, and airbags, things that you won't find on the updated Saber.
All Saber products will come from Florida, and the Enforcers will be an Appleton product.
The Saber and Enforcer are 96" wide cabs whereas the Velocity and Impel are 100" cabs.
Piece is trying to address the fact that a lot of customers are asking for a traditional looking cab without sacrificing some of the features that are found on their other models.
The Enforcer will be competing with the Impel SLT and the Arrow XT, and I'd have to say that of those chassis, the Enforcer would be my choice. It's a more simplistic cab with more officer's room than the XT and more traditional looks than the Impel.
Let the speculation begin about what will be the next chassis axed. When you're offering the Saber, Impel SLT, Impel, Saber, Enforcer, Velocity, Arrow XT, Dash CF, and Quantum but only selling about 1600 rigs a year, something will have to give to keep the engineering and production costs down.
Taylor Goodman
Captain - Henrico County (VA) Division of Fire
Fire Chief - Huguenot VFD, Powhatan, VA
Captain - Henrico County (VA) Division of Fire
Fire Chief - Huguenot VFD, Powhatan, VA
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