Buh Bye Ford GT

As I said in an earlier post with the announcement of Ford’s Wixom Assembly Plant the demise of the GT would not be far off. Well it is official now.
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060203/AUTO01/602030367/1148

i knew it was only gonna be a couple years when they released it though, that was always the plan for it.

Yep that is true but there will be no replacement for it now. The GT500 will be the new top of the line "performance" :rolleyes: car from Ford.

that sux

I knew this would happen and I'm ok with it. The GT had a nice little run there and really gave Chevy a kick in the ass to step things up with its ZO6.

Who knows, maybe this thing is more than just flashy eye candy?

http://after-image.net/cars/images/gr1concept.jpg

I knew this would happen and I'm ok with it. The GT had a nice little run there and really gave Chevy a kick in the ass to step things up with its ZO6.[/img]

how?
GT: 140k 11.6(1/4) 3468lbs 1.0g skidpad Motortrend (gt vs ferarri shoot out)
z06: 66k 11.5(1/4) 3147lb 1.2g skidpad Motortrend (z06 1st drive)

the z06 already does a nice job of competing w/ 100K+cars before the GT came out.

Personaly i'd rather have the z06...same performance for 1/2 the money. :)

^ motortrend is the only one i saw that didnt have the gt being faster than the z06. it has been faster in every other test ive seen, besides i think muscletang was saying that the ford gt is what caused chevy to make the new z06 that fast. ive seen timeslips on the internet of stock gts running 10.9s...

Who knows, maybe this thing is more than just flashy eye candy?

http://after-image.net/cars/images/gr1concept.jpg
The Shelby GR-1 is not going to be built. Ford is still having issues with its V10 and with the way things are at Ford right now its not cost effective.

too bad. those gt's are gonna be really expensive in about 20 years.