RE: Ford Shelby GR-1

[wedgepilot]

Very, very nice

Not sure how much it can be based on the Ford GT though, engine is in a different place for a start. Based on something Aston/Jag, perhaps?

[dinkel]

Cheetah-ish, and therefor typical American.

I like these bold no-nonsense cars.

[klassiekerrally]

ultimarobert said:

Wish they would have put the GT90 into production and dropped the new GT40 and this as well. American-retro, all of it.

Are you really serious???
That 'thing' was different just to be different, not to be beautiful or purposeful.

IMHO this concept is drop dead gorgeous!
For the first time in decades Americans are designing beautiful cars!

[Lotusacbc]

AWESOME!! GIVE ME ONE!!

Sort of distinct Jag/Aston however.

And why no rear shots. Who just takes pics of everything else but the rear?

[Marki]

It is very long nosed as you say , i see i little SLR Mac in it and as others have said more than a splash of Maserati

>> Edited by Marki on Friday 13th August 16:32

[Stin Hambo]

Looks like a Bristol Fighter to me...

[Twin Turbo]

Another one for the dream garage

C'mon Ford, build it! (and in RHD so we can enjoy it too).

[Twin Turbo]

....also meant to say:

1 - It doesn't look live a TVR
2 - In the 2nd photo down it looks like that Mercury concept car that did the rounds a year or so ago.
3 - The rear 3/4 shot does have overtones of Bristol Fighter.
4 - I still want one

[windandwave]

Mmmmm... snouty!

[kryton86]

I'm just pretty impressed that an American company managed to stick a decent engine in a car, almost 100bhp/ltr, rather than the crappy 50 that is normally managed.

And it is pretty sexy.

>> Edited by kryton86 on Saturday 14th August 00:56

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Stin Hambo said:

Looks like a Bristol Fighter to me...

seconded...but lacking the doors. Plus their making a Bristol Fighter S now ( www.bristolcars.co.uk/BristolFighter.htm ) I think we'll ignore the price difference

[D-Angle]

Dunno about all this "We just sketched it and put it straight into clay" stuff, the pics look very CGI to me...

I could be wrong, it's just the background in some of them looks a bit false.

[Twin Turbo]

Nah, that's just perfect Californian sun

[robbo64]

Wow. More muscle that Arnold Schw-can't spell his second name.

As mentioned, bits of Mustang and Aston in there.
Fantastic!

[John Nowak]

Hooboy!

[SXS]

Speechless!

[campbell]

Not a bad effort form Ford and made all the better by Shelby

Lets see if the build it next

Campbell

[PetrolTed]

some journo said:

GR-1 To Replace Ford GT? Senior Ford Motor Co. officials will be meeting in a matter of weeks to decide if and how to replace the automaker’s $150,000 supercar, the Ford GT. There are two likely contenders: the modern remake of the Shelby Cobra, which debuted in Detroit last January, and the Shelby-influenced GR-1, which was unveiled in Pebble Beach this past weekend. “The meeting’s set up and we should decide soon,” Ford’s director of design, J Mays, explained to TheCarConnection.com. The shoot-out comes down to an issue of design and marketability, Mays revealed, since both cars share the same platform and a sizable amount of componentry. The GR-1 simply “slides right over the Cobra Roadster chassis,” he pointed out. That doesn’t mean the choice will be easy, however. The GR-1 “wins the beauty contest, but the Cobra is the emotional favorite,” noted a senior product official, asking not to be named. Whichever design gets the nod, another top official suggested that it would most likely hit the roa! d in two years, about a year before the Ford GT goes out of production. The supercar was always planned to get a limited run and the same would be true for either the Cobra or GR-1. —Paul A. Eisenstein New Shelby Concept Wowing Pebble (8/12/2004) A far sleeker homage to the Cobra — but will Ford build this one? www.thecarconnection.com/index.asp?article=7411

[Twin Turbo]

Memo to Ford:

"GR-1 please. You know it makes sense."

[billy no mates]

how about one of these??

www.channel4.com/4car/feature/features-2004/superformance-le-mans-coupe/cobra.html

and there is another being built in kent and the first one is nearly finished around the 45k mark
the one above is around the 88k mark
bill