The car in this picture is very interesting. It, perhaps more than any other GT ever built, deserves an award of some sort. I can tell by the plate that this is the UK press car and I know a little about it. It’s done about 30K miles, almost all of which have been by European journalist beating the hell out of it. It’s the car that Jeremy Clarkson used in almost all of his UK reviews of the GT (which were very favorable), it’s been crashed badly by journalists at least twice and it’s done a 7:39 lap of the Nurburgring with Jaguar’s head test driver at the wheel (I think this is better than any Porsche Carrera GT has ever done on the Ring). I dare say that no GT has been driven this hard and yet the car has only every required regular wear-and-tear maintenance (e.g. brakes, tires, clutch) outside of the work done when it was crashed. This car belongs in a museum as it has been the subject of rave reviews in virtually every auto magazine in Europe and is the reason I bought my UK spec’d Ford GT.
Rob