It's not uncommon for an exotic -- or any sports car, really -- to have front end clearance issues when pulling into driveways or going over speed bumps. If you've driven a C5/C6 Corvette, or a Viper, or just about any European exotic, you already know this. One of the more surprising elements of the Ford GT is its lack of front clearance issues under all but the most extreme circumstances. We didn't scrape the GT's lower front air splitter for several weeks after taking possesion, and even then it was on a very extreme driveway dip that immediately lead onto a newly paved (read: freshly elevated) street...
That scrape was minimal, and we've maybe scraped the front splitter two more times in the past 11 months (and always very slight scrapes, versus the bone-jarring jolts we've felt in other exotics). We did have one healthy scrape of the undercarriage, between the front and rear wheels, when exiting a gas station where the pavement came to quite a sharp "peak" before dropping away on either side at a sharp angle. This effectively reminded us that, while scraping the GT is rare, it's still no monster truck when it comes to ground clearance.
Karl Brauer, Editor in Chief, Edmunds.com @ 4635 miles
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