Secured the first allocation for my dealership today. Always wanted a GT but never bought one. Excited to join the club!
Oh yeah? How'd you manage that?
Secured the first allocation for my dealership today. Always wanted a GT but never bought one. Excited to join the club!
Working there goes a long way. Hoping we get more than one though. Ford rep said he'd have more information by next month hopefully.
You're telling me a zone rep told you you were guaranteed a car? You should give me their name, because that's total bullshit.
DBK - has Ford Performance decided how they will sell cars - build to retail order or dealer orders on spec for sale?
Any info on build plans - will Ford outsource all manufacturing or will they do final assembly at a UAW facility as was the case with the 05-06 at Wixom?
No info yet. I'd guess a mix of both as last time was. It is really, really up in the air how the allocation of these will be handled. Ford definitely learned some lessons from 04-06, so they will have to employ some serious creativity to find a satisfactory solution on an even lower volume, higher performance product.
TBD on the second one as well.
so why wouldnt ford give the original owners of 05/06 cars first crack? it would certainly show brand loyalty from ford to its customer base, could you imagine the look on the ferrari and lambro guys if they found out that in spite of the ford gt speculating to sell for thousands over msrp that ford is making an effort to sell it to its most loyal customers at best price possible? what would that do for fords image? and realistically how many original owners would take advantage of that? as a small group of ford gt owners here on the forum I like to think we were somewhat significant in portraying the car and keeping it in the limelight in the last 10 years. certainly guys like peak and mark and even mullet amongst many many others have had a big hand in keeping the cars relevant and always in the forefront of automotive interest, I thinks its time for ford to acknowledge the efforts of the ford gt forum in portraying its iconic car in the best possible light and give first crack to it most loyal customers ...... who knows if more people kept writing bs like this it just might happen
lol
Because as much as this forum and its owners have helped keep this car in the limelight, putting in the hands of the Lenos and Seinfelds and 'X' professional athlete is likely worth a whole lot more positive PR for Ford.
Lots of ford people reading the forum right now. No guarantee it will have any impact at all, but this community is in the consciousness of a number at the company.
Edsel Ford dropped me an email Tuesday to ask what the buzz on the new GT was...