Ford GT production will be ending soon. In fact, there's a Ford GT Rally that will have over 100 GT owners driving (okay, some will be trailering) their Blue Oval Exotics back to Dearborn in mid-August. We'll be there as well and capture the festivies for a feature story (should make for quite a Woodward Cruise). The absence of a Ford GT follow-up, either in the form of the sleek GR-1 or even the comic-book-like Cobra concept, means this will be the last Ford supercar for awhile...
The good news is that after amost two years of production the car still causes a stir wherever it goes. The dark blue color has aged well; we're not sure how we'd have felt about yellow, or even the Gulf livery, after several months. And while we can't exactly run this one through the local Chevron automated car wash it is relatively easy (and very rewarding) to wash it ourselves. Finally, at 4,500 miles there are no major -- or minor -- mechanical issues to report. We know there were some teething problems when production first started, but Ford should have kept the spirit of the GT alive rather than killing it and neutering SVT. Oh well...
Karl Brauer, Editor in Chief, Edmunds.com @ 4,579 miles
frontier2k7 says:
02:50 PM, 09/ 3/06
Any of you Ford GT owners who nitpick your machine can gladly pass theirs over to me. I'll even take over the payments providing it's not over $300 a month... :)