Is the new Ford GT already a busted flush?
Discussion
I have hinted at this subject on other threads but wanted to open it out to a wider audience.
The Ford GT has been around in prototype form for about 3 years now. We know it famously won its class at LeMans last year, a great achievement. But Ford have yet to deliver a single customer car and if I am not mistaken customers are still not sure when they will get their cars.
Fords initial allocation of cars was assigned in my opinion to an odd bunch of people, the fact that you owned an original GT40 and a few of the last generation Ford GT’s did not guarantee you a slot, but a YouTube channel might???
Ford recently published lap times were the Ford was recorded only one second faster than a McLaren 675LT over a long lap (2mins 08 secs), a time not verified by anyone else. Hardly ground breaking considering the Mac is a last generation car and the new 720S is being reported as being quicker series production car. Plus a street/track version of the 488 will appear soon, likely to be very quick.
So my question is this. Is the Ford GT too late to the party, is its Ecoboost V6 the wrong engine (not exotic enough) and will it be too expensive at well over a predicted £400K to justify its price even if it is limited edition (saying that Ford have not said how many they will build)?
The Ford GT has been around in prototype form for about 3 years now. We know it famously won its class at LeMans last year, a great achievement. But Ford have yet to deliver a single customer car and if I am not mistaken customers are still not sure when they will get their cars.
Fords initial allocation of cars was assigned in my opinion to an odd bunch of people, the fact that you owned an original GT40 and a few of the last generation Ford GT’s did not guarantee you a slot, but a YouTube channel might???
Ford recently published lap times were the Ford was recorded only one second faster than a McLaren 675LT over a long lap (2mins 08 secs), a time not verified by anyone else. Hardly ground breaking considering the Mac is a last generation car and the new 720S is being reported as being quicker series production car. Plus a street/track version of the 488 will appear soon, likely to be very quick.
So my question is this. Is the Ford GT too late to the party, is its Ecoboost V6 the wrong engine (not exotic enough) and will it be too expensive at well over a predicted £400K to justify its price even if it is limited edition (saying that Ford have not said how many they will build)?
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