favorite american sports car

[Misundaztood]

Saleen S7.

[Moppie]

Originally posted by ac427cpe
i would like to know whcih country you would deem the Ford GT40 belonging to.

It dosn't belong to any country.
You could credit the Ford Motor group with its creation, but the car itself had input into its development from so many differnt place's that I dont think you can say it comes from just one place.

Part of the cars success came from the mixing of differnt schools of thought; a light weight British chassis design draped in a body design enfluenced by the knowledge in Aerodynamics coming out of Europe, then fitted with a great big, bigger is better American V8 and the whole lot made to work useing the creativity and ingenuity of New Zealand and Australias best enginers who grew up making race cars out of what ever they could find.

Its a true international car.

[ac427cpe]

ok, then i'll keep Ford's GT40 as my favorite american car, and Lola's GT prototype as one of my favorites from england

[Neutrino]

Originally posted by Misundaztood
Saleen S7.

[Moppie]

Originally posted by ac427cpe
ok, then i'll keep Ford's GT40 as my favorite american car,

No, it should be your favorite FORD car. Not American. (ford at the time was an International company, as it is now)

[FYRHWK1]

For it to be an American sports car it has to be have been designed and built by Americans in America.

right, it wasnt solely designed by ford nor was it built by them, if thats the case the bulk of volkswagens we get in the US aren't VW's either, they're built in mexico.

Wrong, designed by Eric Broadley as the Lola GT

One man doesn't design a car, the lola design aerodynamic cues were taken and put into th GT-40, the MK4 still did not share the same build as the others nor the same build plant.

[SuPeRcAr_MaN]

Ford is an international company based in the U.S. therefor it is a U.S. company.

[ac427cpe]

ford bought the rights to the prototype Lola GT, and from that point on it became a ford, now... being built ouside of a country doesn't necessarily make it foreign. i just feel that where the parent company is, is where the car should be classified from. because... in that case we should add some bmw's, as well as most hondas, toyotas, and nissans, seing as they are built here. i'm done arguing though, someone post the special olympics internet arguing.. thing.. pic, there's no right answer to this, and when u get into the technicalities... everything goes to shit. you are arguing on the origins of the car not being american to make the claim that the car isn't. its a lot like the fact that almost none of the people that live here are origonally (through ancestry) from america, yet still are american. i just put that same logic to the car. ... i dunno... i've stopped making sense to myself...

[Moppie]

Originally posted by FYRHWK1
right, it wasnt solely designed by ford nor was it built by them, if thats the case the bulk of volkswagens we get in the US aren't VW's either, they're built in mexico.

:huh: :huh:

That makes no sense at all in relation to this discussion?
Thier still VW's thier just Mexican assembled VW's.



The US is one of the few countries in the world that has cars built on its shores that are never exported to other countries. It creates a false sense of Nationalism about the Motor Industry that is totaly meaningless to the rest of the world.

The badge a car wears no longer has relationship with the country it was designed and built in.
Its been this way on a small scale since Ford set up itself up in Europe and started designing and building cars for the world Market that were Never seen in the US. GM soon followed them, but did it on a much larger scale.
Honda and Nissan have been building cars in the US that are not sold anywhere else in the world, not even in Japan.
And of course all the large Manufactors now have US design offices that work along side design offices in the home country.
The result is truely international cars. Being designed and assembled all over the world useing people and parts from all over the world.

A car does not have to have a country of origin.
The GT40 was one of the first examples of a truely Internaional car, and its one of the reasons for its huge success.

[Scott 02]

What kind of sports car? High end or your regular Sports car like the mustang or camaro?

[Deakins]

Originally posted by Neutrino

What are you talking about? Dodge made the viper long before it was part of Daimer-Crysler.

Wasn't the RT/10 concept designed at Chrysler's "Advanced Styling Studio". And seeing how the production car used the Lamborghini V10 block, he was correct when he said Dodge was a division of DaimlerChrysler at thet time. Chrysler bought Dodge in 1928.

[FYRHWK1]

Originally posted by Moppie



:huh: :huh:

That makes no sense at all in relation to this discussion?
Thier still VW's thier just Mexican assembled VW's.



The US is one of the few countries in the world that has cars built on its shores that are never exported to other countries. It creates a false sense of Nationalism about the Motor Industry that is totaly meaningless to the rest of the world.

The badge a car wears no longer has relationship with the country it was designed and built in.
Its been this way on a small scale since Ford set up itself up in Europe and started designing and building cars for the world Market that were Never seen in the US. GM soon followed them, but did it on a much larger scale.
Honda and Nissan have been building cars in the US that are not sold anywhere else in the world, not even in Japan.
And of course all the large Manufactors now have US design offices that work along side design offices in the home country.
The result is truely international cars. Being designed and assembled all over the world useing people and parts from all over the world.

A car does not have to have a country of origin.
The GT40 was one of the first examples of a truely Internaional car, and its one of the reasons for its huge success.

It has nothing to do with this discussion? you claimed the GT-40 wasnt american because its design had influence taken from a lola GT and was built in britain, meaning the GT-40 was still designed by fords engineers. So the only thing truly un-american was the build location, which is exactly related to VW's designing the USDM cars and having them built in mexico.

[NISSANSPDR]

Viper GTS-R

[YogsVR4]

Favorite American car would have to be the 67 Cobra

[DMC12]

Vector W8 :ylsuper