One of the takeaways I had from visiting the production facility was that the GT is a lot more of a special machine than has been detailed. It's a beautiful car on the outside, but without seeing underneath the skin, you miss so much of what makes it one of a kind.
The car buying public is spoiled because there are so many awesome cars on the market from so many manufacturers, but at times, you get out of one and into another and it all blurs into the same experience. Virtually all the "fast" cars on the market are well beyond the capability of the people who will buy them, and they've become so dialed in for mass market consumers, that unless you are driving 10/10ths on a racetrack, the cars lose their sense of occasion.
Here's just one example of what makes the GT special, and one that shows how much race car DNA is in the car. Everyone has seen the air management behind the front wheel, aka the first thing to clear bra. Let's take a look inside:
You can side why I taped this little area off when I got to take this car for a drive, even if it was only 2 miles there and back. The pilot cups are extremely sticky and it will chuck rocks up there quickly, ejecting them right down the side of your carbon lowers. This area needs to be clear bra'd immediately.
Look inside and you can see the control arms. They are incredibly long. I wanted to try and wipe down the carbon but I couldn't even reach the attachment point lying on my back, and not just because I have tyrannosaurus arms. It's damn near at the center of the car. It's like something from an open wheel car. Oh, and carbon. Everything is carbon. The entire underbody of the car.
Just in case you haven't seen it, here's a door bottom as an example.
So I wasn't kidding about them being mounted nearly in the center of the car. This is the zero keel chassis construction. It aids in airflow management and is an obvious nod to the concurrent road car/race car development cycle. The active aero slats in the front splitter open and close to bleed off some of the front downforce.
You can see why MM is chosen as a CF partner on so many 7 figure hypercars; their CF work is amazing. Total race DNA.
Phone pic for IG shows pretty well, even if it's a little dirty:
So this one area of the car where you can see it's not quite like the rest of the market. There are more to go over later.
I am not posting the below pics trying to rag this car; it's an awesome car. But we have a 458 Spider here with about 1200 miles on it and I thought it would be a useful comparison. It was about $330k new.
Please ignore the scuff in the plastic underbody tray.
You can see the difference.
The car buying public is spoiled because there are so many awesome cars on the market from so many manufacturers, but at times, you get out of one and into another and it all blurs into the same experience. Virtually all the "fast" cars on the market are well beyond the capability of the people who will buy them, and they've become so dialed in for mass market consumers, that unless you are driving 10/10ths on a racetrack, the cars lose their sense of occasion.
Here's just one example of what makes the GT special, and one that shows how much race car DNA is in the car. Everyone has seen the air management behind the front wheel, aka the first thing to clear bra. Let's take a look inside:
You can side why I taped this little area off when I got to take this car for a drive, even if it was only 2 miles there and back. The pilot cups are extremely sticky and it will chuck rocks up there quickly, ejecting them right down the side of your carbon lowers. This area needs to be clear bra'd immediately.
Look inside and you can see the control arms. They are incredibly long. I wanted to try and wipe down the carbon but I couldn't even reach the attachment point lying on my back, and not just because I have tyrannosaurus arms. It's damn near at the center of the car. It's like something from an open wheel car. Oh, and carbon. Everything is carbon. The entire underbody of the car.
Just in case you haven't seen it, here's a door bottom as an example.
So I wasn't kidding about them being mounted nearly in the center of the car. This is the zero keel chassis construction. It aids in airflow management and is an obvious nod to the concurrent road car/race car development cycle. The active aero slats in the front splitter open and close to bleed off some of the front downforce.
You can see why MM is chosen as a CF partner on so many 7 figure hypercars; their CF work is amazing. Total race DNA.
Phone pic for IG shows pretty well, even if it's a little dirty:
So this one area of the car where you can see it's not quite like the rest of the market. There are more to go over later.
I am not posting the below pics trying to rag this car; it's an awesome car. But we have a 458 Spider here with about 1200 miles on it and I thought it would be a useful comparison. It was about $330k new.
Please ignore the scuff in the plastic underbody tray.
You can see the difference.
