I am also impressed with stock pads, but 400 miles of track are hard on them. Really hard before I turned the nannies off after first 100, had to replace rears after 200 track miles.
Tried to get more, but Ford has the fronts back-ordered, first 300 sets to arrive supposedly are already spoken for and not even in Country yet.
Other searches lead me to believe fronts are made in Europe, maybe a Ford spokesperson can pick this thread up and answer our queries?