:facepalm: I'm sure this will get HUGE responses, (likely not good ones) but I feel it is necessary to express some thoughts.
Shouldn't the new GT be called the Multimatic GT?
Let me explain.
We all know that the original GT-40 was farmed out to various non OEM builders. Ford supplied most of the parts and Cosworth, H-M, or Shelby did the actual building. Made sense, as they were VERY low build numbers, designed for one thing only. Whipping Enzo's butt at Le Mans. Other than the handful of MK-3s that were made for public consumption, they never were meant for general sale to the public.
When I went on the 05-06 GT program in July of 03, it was a big deal for us when we learned that Bill Ford had insisted that the car be finished built by Ford employees at a Ford facility. We were given to understand that Saleen wanted to build the whole car initially. When I was working on the "GT Team History" year book, I did a page for the book on that very thing.
Fast forward to 2015. Ford shows off the incredible new GT. From what little most of us know about it, it looks like it's going to rock the hyper car world. Kind of makes me swell with pride. But other than Ford parts and engineering, it's a Multimatic. How many of the F cars are not made in Italy by F employees? How many Audi, BMW, M-B supercars, are farmed out to non OEM builders?
Don't get me wrong, I've almost had wet dreams about the new car. Wish I could have been involved with it. But being, from what we have heard, more than just a handful of race cars, 3-4 hundred a year for ? years is a production car in my book. I know it's not practical to do a build set up like the 05-06 cars, but still is kind of saddening for me.
Let my thumping begin :leaving::smash
Shouldn't the new GT be called the Multimatic GT?
Let me explain.
We all know that the original GT-40 was farmed out to various non OEM builders. Ford supplied most of the parts and Cosworth, H-M, or Shelby did the actual building. Made sense, as they were VERY low build numbers, designed for one thing only. Whipping Enzo's butt at Le Mans. Other than the handful of MK-3s that were made for public consumption, they never were meant for general sale to the public.
When I went on the 05-06 GT program in July of 03, it was a big deal for us when we learned that Bill Ford had insisted that the car be finished built by Ford employees at a Ford facility. We were given to understand that Saleen wanted to build the whole car initially. When I was working on the "GT Team History" year book, I did a page for the book on that very thing.
Fast forward to 2015. Ford shows off the incredible new GT. From what little most of us know about it, it looks like it's going to rock the hyper car world. Kind of makes me swell with pride. But other than Ford parts and engineering, it's a Multimatic. How many of the F cars are not made in Italy by F employees? How many Audi, BMW, M-B supercars, are farmed out to non OEM builders?
Don't get me wrong, I've almost had wet dreams about the new car. Wish I could have been involved with it. But being, from what we have heard, more than just a handful of race cars, 3-4 hundred a year for ? years is a production car in my book. I know it's not practical to do a build set up like the 05-06 cars, but still is kind of saddening for me.
Let my thumping begin :leaving::smash
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