Why Chip thinks that is.
....why do you think that is. Are people tired of the Ferrari brand, is it the economy or what. I know the Ferrari market is tough but the GT market is not. That is the question I'm trying to answer. Is it a maintance issue or a change in preference?
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Several items are in play here. Performance, handling, beauty, rarity, durability, maintenance costs. Most older Ferrari's suffer on all counts (I said most, not all). A whole lot of us don't think the styling of the higher production Ferrari's ages well. The older 15" wheel cars handle like a school bus compared to modern cars and performance wise, a new 5.0 Mustang would humiliate most of them on the track or strip. A 308 or 328 pulling up to a stoplight next to a high school kid in a hood scoop shod Subaru is in for a drubbing. But at least they cost a fortune to maintain, parts are ridiculously expensive, and the cars aren't very rare.
The Ford GT is an anomaly. The Ford GT styling has been around for 45 years now and like the P-51D Mustang, it's beauty has proven to be timeless. With a current population of about 3400 cars spread out all over the world, it is relatively rare and getting rarer every year as they are destroyed at the rate of about one a week. It's handling, especially with Hoosier's and Penski coilovers, is world class, AND, with a few relatively inexpensive mods, it will out accelerate just about anything.
When I am driving my TT GT, the chance I will encounter anything faster on the road is ZERO. The chance I will encounter a more beautiful car on the road is ZERO. Think about this, in a race to 200 MPH, a $200,000 TT GT will beat a Bugatti Veyron by 5 seconds. The GT has proven itself to be very durable even when it's putting out nearly double the stock horsepower, and it's cheap to maintain. Parts prices are the only fly in the Ford GT ointment.
These cars are a tremendous bargain. That's my take on it.
Chip
