The Rumors keep rolling in!

[SteveA]

If this is just all rumor there'll be plenty of egg on face to go around, however my gut tells me it's happening. At this point my only question is, MK IV red or MK II black? :lol

http://www.autoguide.com/auto-news/...-return-set-debut-2016-detroit-auto-show.html


http://www.gtspirit.com/2014/10/03/ford-gt-successor-and-le-mans-comeback-planned-for-2016/


http://news.boldride.com/2014/10/is-the-ford-gt-making-a-comeback/58725/

 

[FBA]

I read it on the Internet, so it must be true!

 

[Joe Dozzo]

Rumors? Maybe so... But I have my room booked for the 15 - 22 Jan in Detroit...

 

[Empty Pockets]

If this is just all rumor there'll be plenty of egg on face to go around...

Didn't Ford say a number of years ago that there wouldn't be another FGT?

I seem to recall that little factoid being repeated any number of times around here.

 

[twobjshelbys]

Don't confuse the Ford GT with a vehicle that could (on its own) compete in the GT class. They might not be the same. Still I assert if Ford were going to make a serious run at a 50th anniversary 3-peat then we'd have seen something somewhere by now.

Today somewhere else I saw a version of this that there will be a show vehicle in Detroit in 2016. THAT IS FEASIBLE. A car on the track in LeMans in 2016 means they are running cars with Klingon invisibility cloaks somewhere.

 

[FBA]

They built the original GT from concept to finish in just under a year IIRC...

 

[Sinovac]

Don't confuse the Ford GT with a vehicle that could (on its own) compete in the GT class. They might not be the same. Still I assert if Ford were going to make a serious run at a 50th anniversary 3-peat then we'd have seen something somewhere by now.

Today somewhere else I saw a version of this that there will be a show vehicle in Detroit in 2016. THAT IS FEASIBLE. A car on the track in LeMans in 2016 means they are running cars with Klingon invisibility cloaks somewhere.

The LeMans entry and the GT successor might be two different cars altogether. If Ford intends to enter a car in a prototype class, you wouldn't necessarily see anything running around now. There are no mininum production requirements in prototype. It seems logical that Ford will enter a variant of the Riley-Daytona Ecoboost at LeMans and perhaps announce the GT successor at the same time. LeMans is the next logical step for Ecoboost.

 

[Kingman]

If this is just all rumor ..................]

Quit spreading rumors and creating false hopes! I know your GAME buddy boy. You're just trying to prop up GT prices until you can unload yours before prices hit $55K as all the EXPERTS predicted back in '05/'06. Shame on you!:ack

 

[dbk]

Just an FYI, watching the Petit Le Mans broadcast on two windows right now, and with 3 minutes left in the race while Bob Varsha was discussing the season's inaugural Ford EcoBoost racing effort, he said they would be working on it hard during the offseason and "word is that Ford will be taking this technology and returning to the 24 Hours of Le Mans."

 

[roketman]

Eco boost ford gt?Twin turbo eco boost?

 

[PL510*Jeff]

Just an FYI, watching the Petit Le Mans broadcast on two windows right now, and with 3 minutes left in the race while Bob Varsha was discussing the season's inaugural Ford EcoBoost racing effort, he said they would be working on it hard during the offseason and "word is that Ford will be taking this technology and returning to the 24 Hours of Le Mans."

And he said it in an " no if's" "ands" or Buts" firm sort of way.

 

[jbyrnes]

Eco boost ford gt?Twin turbo eco boost?

Sounding familiar. Remember Fords wild RS200 Group B rally car of the mid 80's: mid engine turbo 4... no Le Mans GT car, but would have made quite a road car.

 

[Specracer]

While in Vegas at the rally you can see one of those rs200's at the harrah's car collection at the imperial palace, which is now called quad, or something like that. One was still there back in November. I was there one time a few years ago, and they had 3.

 

[Kingman]

There were a couple of them that used to show up at Cs&C in Irvine a while back. Pretty cool ride, with a surprisingly small engine pumping out BIG horsepower.

 

[PL510*Jeff]

A buddy of mine has one. Imported from Mexico!

Very much fun to drive. "Almost" too many HP's!

 

[jbyrnes]

A buddy of mine has one. Imported from Mexico!

Very much fun to drive. "Almost" too many HP's!

Many though so. The series became coined "the killer B's". Running 400+ HP on logging roads with big trees instead of guard rails.