2000 cars.
Hand laid carbon fiber.
For Ford to setup a facility that could build these things, the cost would be outrageous.
Not to mention Multimatic builds a lot of high end race car chassis. It would take Ford a long time to get to that level.
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Hand laid carbon fiber.
For Ford to setup a facility that could build these things, the cost would be outrageous.
Not to mention Multimatic builds a lot of high end race car chassis. It would take Ford a long time to get to that level.
Where are the Autozone clear floor mates at for that thing?! ;-)
Oh I seeeeeeee. I didn't realize that. Thanks for the info.
Ford needed this new GT to WIN and looked to a Company that is used to winning. Here's some more info. on Multimatic and the genesis of the FORD GT program. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/glo...d-gt-supercar-with-its-owner/article33397994/
Don't kid yourself into thinking Ford only outsourced the building of these things to Multimatic. I remember Ford execs crowing about how they had an internal skunkworks that created it, and people I know who are deeply involved in design and engineering were like, how the **** did THAT happen, with all the cross-checks and layers of approval that have to take place in the development of a car? The answer, in retrospect, is easy: Their skunkworks was across the border in Canada. This thing is practically a Ford-licensed Multi-matic car.
Funny. I'll make sure all the guys working on it in Dearborn know they didn't actually work on it. "Deeply involved in design."
That's weird, because basically everyone that was "deeply involved in the design" of this car lives right around me, and they are all pretty sure they worked on it virtually every day since mid-late 2013. GT was the personal pet project of Raj Nair while he was running global product and the PDC. You can tell these people you know that's how that happened.
Ford doesn't actually build it in one of their plants? Wow, didn't know that. Got to admit, a little disappointed. Still an amazing car.
Why, hate Canadians for some reason??
Not at all. Just thought the FGT was 100% Ford, but its not.
Neither was the original though, so feels about the same to me
thats what a true Super car should look like! wow BJ on wheels.....
The GT4 Mustang is the nastiest road race Mustang Ford has done to date. Guess who builds that one too?
Funny. I'll make sure all the guys working on it in Dearborn know they didn't actually work on it. "Deeply involved in design."
GT was the personal pet project of Raj Nair while he was running global product and the PDC. You can tell these people you know that's how that happened.
Do you live in Detroit suburbs, or Toronto suburbs, and how much of their time was spent stateside, vs Canada?
I don't care who builds it. It is a bad ass car.
There was 2 at VIR a couple weekends ago. The owners rented the track for Friday run sessions By time I got there they were loaded up in a semi. The side of the truck was open and I could see them loaded up. My buddy got to see them run. The owners would take turns driving the cars around. They were excited cause they were turning 2.09's. That can be done in a stock Mustang. One of them spun on track and never went out again. They could have benefited greatly from a little instruction. Those GT's should have been well below the 2 second mark.
There was 2 at VIR a couple weekends ago. The owners rented the track for Friday run sessions By time I got there they were loaded up in a semi. The side of the truck was open and I could see them loaded up. My buddy got to see them run. The owners would take turns driving the cars around. They were excited cause they were turning 2.09's. That can be done in a stock Mustang. One of them spun on track and never went out again. They could have benefited greatly from a little instruction. Those GT's should have been well below the 2 second mark.
That is one patriotic picture there. The ole red, white and blue.
Home Depot!?!? Am I close?!
I live in Detroit suburbs, and virtually all of their time was spent in Dearborn in the basement of the PDC. Yes, MM did/does an exorbitant amount of work on the car (which is both good and bad), but I've been in the GT skunkworks many times and there were people buried in there working nonstop since late 13.
Getting a car like GT built outside of the typical bullshit just takes a PD boss willing to risk his career for it (check) and the Ford family saying "yes please" (check). Not just a matter of who you have doing the work. Raj was much more tolerant of risk than the standard PD boss. His predecessor would have never done this program, let alone had his hands all over it on a daily basis.
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