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Old 01-03-2015, 02:23 PM   #1
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Or it is a logo for the company's new Ford Performance division?

There have been rumblings that Ford could introduce a new GT at the North American International Auto Show, so it's interesting that the company has filed a new trademark which features an image of the iconic car.
Recently posted for opposition, the trademark features a "stylized ghosted speeding car" that is undoubtedly a GT. Unfortunately, the filing doesn't provide too many details as it covers various good and services including everything from ashtrays to brake fluid.
This could suggest the logo will be used on accessories from the new Ford Performance division but nothing is official as of yet. However, we could learn more when Ford takes over Joe Louis Arena on January 12th.

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Old 01-12-2015, 02:32 PM   #3
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maybe thats why they patented ECOBEAST lol
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Old 01-12-2015, 02:36 PM   #4
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Engineered to keep company with exotics” is how Ford modestly refers to its bombshell 2015 Detroit auto show debut, the GT hypercar. The concept’s appearance wasn’t a huge surprise, as we learned months ago that Ford was taking a new GT to Le Mans in 2016, and such a car must be homologated. But as it slinked onto a stage at Detroit’s Joe Louis Arena, Ford kept feeding us a host of stats that had our jaws opening wider by the second. It packs more than 600 horsepower. It utilizes full carbon-fiber construction and body panels. It has active aerodynamics. The new GT is poised to not only keep company with other exotics, but perhaps also force them to up their game. Grand Theft Auto Show

It bears repeating: After a year full of astonishing high-performance and supercar launches that included the Chevrolet Corvette Z06, Chevy Camaro Z/28, Porsche 918 Spyder, Ferrari LaFerrari, McLaren P1, and Ford’s own Shelby Mustang GT350, we were floored. It’s not just the Ford’s sultry styling—we’ll get to that shortly—it’s the sheer brassiness of the thing. To the carbon-fiber monocoque Ford’s engineers bolted front and rear subframes made from aluminum. The active aerodynamic elements include a multiposition rear wing that mimics the caboose-tamers of the P1 and LaFerrari to help keep Ford’s mid-engine supercar planted at speed. The suspension is active and uses inboard, pushrod-actuated damping, and ride height is adjustable.



Power comes not from a supercharged V-8 as in the previous GT, but rather Ford’s next-generation twin-turbocharged 3.5-liter EcoBoost V-6 engine. We’re promised it will produce “more than 600 horsepower.” We have to imagine that the GT’s EcoBoost six likely shares at least some componentry with the new 3.5-liter EcoBoost V-6 in the 2017 F-150 Raptor, meaning it should have plenty of torque; we’d wager at least 500 lb-ft. So far as we can tell at this point, there is no hybrid componentry, no complicated electric-boost function, and no kinetic-energy recovery system, just pure, unadulterated horsepower from a beastly gas engine feeding the rear wheels via a seven-speed dual-clutch automatic transmission. Carbon-ceramic brakes haul the prototype down from speed, and 20-inch wheels wrapped in Michelin Pilot Super Sport Cup 2 tires are tasked with keeping the car stuck to the pavement.
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All of the chassis porn is matched by the visual titillation of the GT’s body, the flying buttresses of which manage to disguise what is essentially the shape of a Le Mans prototype racer. The wide front end is reminiscent of the classic Ford GT40, but the rest of the design is fully supercar-modern. The tight, two-seat passenger cell tapers to a point above the two cannon-sized central exhaust outlets, and the rear fenders sit entirely apart from the main fuselage. (Credit the laydown, pushrod suspension for making the channels between the wheels and body possible.) Unlike last decade’s GT, the doors hinge up and forward and don’t incorporate portions of the roof; they still, however, grant access to a simple, businesslike cabin. A digital gauge cluster is augmented by a central color touch-screen display with Ford’s just-introduced Sync 3 infotainment setup, while the slim center tunnel houses the starter button and transmission selector buttons. A pair of paddle shifters sprouts from behind a squircle-shaped steering wheel, and we can’t get over the awesome door-mounted HVAC vents.



The previous GT was amazing and a supercar by every standard, but it was also fairly conventional and done more to pay homage to Ford’s Ferrari-slaying GT40s of the past than to advance the breed. This GT, on the other hand, reads like those original GT40s in that it’s an unmistakable shot across the bows of the world’s preeminent supercar makers. It’s as if Ford’s engineers got punch-drunk on performance after churning out the Shelby GT350 and the new F-150 Raptor, turned to one another and asked, “What’s next?” The answer, of course, was to once again take aim at the big guns from Europe.
While the Detroit car is technically a concept, as we said up top, the GT will be produced starting next year. The 2017 Ford GT’s natural nemesis will be Chevrolet’s mid-engine Corvette that’s due roughly two years from now, although Ferrari’s newly twin-turbocharged 458, the second-generation Audi R8, and possible even loftier supercars will be in play, too. Keeping company with exotics, indeed. View Photo Gallery
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Old 01-12-2015, 02:43 PM   #5
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Gorgeous exterior, very minimalist interior. So pretty...
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Old 01-12-2015, 02:47 PM   #6
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Oh, yes. It will be mine.
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I can't believe how low it is.
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Old 01-12-2015, 03:06 PM   #9
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With all due respect...that interior is horrendous.

While, sure, it's a cool looking car...I'm not super thrilled with the exterior either. But the interior...yikes
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Talk about child bearing hips..those D pillars are cool
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Old 01-12-2015, 03:20 PM   #11
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Hopefully it'll put the new Acura NSX to shame
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Old 01-12-2015, 03:20 PM   #12
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With all due respect...that interior is horrendous.

While, sure, it's a cool looking car...I'm not super thrilled with the exterior either. But the interior...yikes
Could just be the angle on that photo/render, but I'm inclined to agree with you on the interior.
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Old 01-12-2015, 03:22 PM   #13
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The most exotically-styled American supercar probably EVER.
(Small makes like Saleen notwithstanding)

I love it and happy it is decidedly un-retro in both style and the lack of a humongous-displacement iron block.

The interior is too minimalistic, though. So minimalistic they forgot to put a stick-shift in
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Old 01-12-2015, 03:24 PM   #14
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V6 made me very sad.

Should have a boosted GT350 engine.
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Old 01-12-2015, 04:04 PM   #15
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the question is...will Jeremy Clarkson order one?

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Thirty-five years ago I promised myself that one day I'd own a Ford GT40, the blue-collar supercar that took an axle grinder to Ferrari's aristocratic halo at Le Mans. But 25 years ago my dreams were dashed as I grew too tall to fit inside.
Happily, in 2002 Ford announced that it was to build a modern-day version of the old racer. It would, they said, cost less than £100,000 and do more than 200mph. They also said it would be much bigger than the original so pylon-people like me would be able to drive it.

And so, two years ago, having tested a prototype in America, I placed an order for one of the 28 that were coming to Britain.

As the months groaned by there were rumours of big price increases, insatiable thirst and catastrophic suspension failure. But there were also rumours of the supercharged V8 pumping out 550bhp and a mountain of torque so massive it was breaking the testing equipment. So I didn't mind.

I didn't even mind when it arrived at my house one month ago inside a truck which had "On Time" written down the side. As we know from America's arrival into the second world war, their concept of "on time" differs slightly from ours.

And anyway, it looked so gorgeous, a mass of bulging muscle struggling to contain that massive 5.4 litre supercharged heart. It doesn't look like a GT40 but it looks like a GT40 looks in your head. And it's huge. Longer than a Volvo XC90 and as wide as a Hummer.

Which is why, on its first run, to London, it was like a blue and white Pied Piper trailing a stream of ratty hatches in its wake. Everyone was taking pictures, waving, giving me the thumb's up. Never, not once in 15 years of road testing cars, had anything drawn such a massive crowd. And never had the crowd been so overtly supportive.

Of course you can't run a car like this without a few problems rearing their head from time to time. It's too wide for the width restrictions on Hammersmith bridge - backing up earned me a slot on the traffic news that morning. The turning circle means every mini roundabout becomes a three-point turn, and at oblique junctions, as is the case in a Ferrari Enzo, you absolutely cannot see if anything's coming.

But set against this is a surprisingly quiet and civilised ride. It's like a power station. Silent, as it gets on with the job of brightening up your life.

Mind you, you are constantly aware of the Herculean power that nestles just over your right shoulder. Partly because you can see the supercharger belt whirring away in the rear-view mirror and partly because it makes a deep, dog-baiting rumble when you do put your foot down.

Ford asked that I keep the revs below 4000 for the first thousand miles. But since 100mph equates to 1900rpm it's not really a hardship. And at this speed you're doing 15mpg, which isn't bad at all. But three days later everything started to go very, very wrong.

Leaving the Top Gear studio, the immobiliser refused to un-immobilise itself. So the car was pushed into the hangar and I went home instead in a rented Toyota Corolla.

Ford sent a tow truck, changed the immobiliser and delivered the car to my house the following day. "Is it fixed?" I asked. "Yes," they said.

It wasn't. At three in the morning the alarm blew. And then again at four. This meant my wife started to refer to it as "that f****** car", which took away a bit of the sheen, if I'm honest.

The next day, on the way back to the garage, I received a call on the hands-free phone from the tracker company. "Your car's been stolen, sir," said the man. "I'm sure it hasn't," I said, "because I'm in it."

Fearing that I might be the burglar, the man asked if I could give him my password. Tricky one that, since I have a different password for everything on the internet and can never remember any of them. And that's a big problem, because the man at the end of the phone has the power to remotely shut down the engine.

I threatened him, lightly, with some physical harm, but this didn't work so I had to guess. "Aardvark," I ventured. "Abacus, Aesop, additional..."

Eventually he took pity and I was able to deliver the car back to Ford with some stern warnings about the alarm, the immobiliser and the tracker system, all of which seemed to be malfunctioning. As a courtesy car they gave me a Ford Focus, with a diesel engine. Nice.

Two days later the GT was back. "Is it fixed?" I asked, again. "Yes," they said

Five minutes out of the Ford garage I received a text to say my car had been stolen. And then, in the next half hour, three more. So, counting the two I'd received before I was even out of bed, that meant my car had been stolen five times before 9am.

This time I rang Ford and explained that I would personally come over there and insert the whole car up the chairman's backside if it wasn't fixed. And while I was on the phone a yellow warning light came on the dash.

"There's a yellow warning light on the dash," I bellowed, like Michael Winner, only angrier. "Oh, that'll be something to do with the engine management system," said the man with the bleeding ears. "You'll need to get it looked at . . ."

When Ford gave me the car back after its third hospital trip in as many weeks, I didn't ask if the security system was fixed. Because the notion of it still being broken was simply inconceivable.

So imagine my surprise when, one hour later, while at my daughter's school play, I heard a familiar siren. I couldn't believe it. The alarm had gone off again.

In a fury this time, I called Ford and explained, loudly, that Roush, the company charged with servicing and maintaining the 28 GTs in Britain, was plainly incompetent. And that there was simply no point asking it to fix the alarm again because it'd had three goes already.

I then did something the man at Ford wasn't expecting. I asked for my money back.

And that, the next day, is what happened.

They put £126,000 in my account and sent a man to pick up the car. "Is it the alarm system?" he said. "They all do that."

So there we are. A 35-year dream. A two-year wait. Ten years of d4mn hard work. And what do I get? The most miserable month's motoring it is possible to imagine.

Strangely, however, as the GT rumbled down my drive for the last time, I felt like Julie Walters watching Michael Caine getting on the plane at the end of Educating Rita. I actually cried.

There's a very good reason for this. I genuinely believe that some machines have a soul and I can't bear to think of my Ford sitting in a warehouse now, unloved and unwanted. It is fine. It is perfect. It knows it's a great, great car that was ruined by a useless ape who fitted a crummy aftermarket alarm system.

Ford has said I can buy the car back any time. It has even lent me an Aston Martin DB9 while I make up my mind. I don't know though. I just don't know.

Normally I finish these columns with an opinion of mine. But this time it's the other way round. I'd love to hear yours.

One thing: I know I could sell the car privately and make a £50,000 profit. But I have never profited from my position as a motoring journalist. And I never will.
no V8 no care, if I want a V6 I would buy a Nissan GT-R
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The most exotically-styled American supercar probably EVER.
(Small makes like Saleen notwithstanding)

I love it and happy it is decidedly un-retro in both style and the lack of a humongous-displacement iron block.

The interior is too minimalistic, though. So minimalistic they forgot to put a stick-shift in
I agree that the interior leaves a lot to be desired. Its too bland looking. Sadly, I think we have seen the death of the stick shift for upper tier cars.

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V6 made me very sad.

Should have a boosted GT350 engine.
I'm excited about the Ecoboost V6 for this car (mustang not so much). I'm hoping we see a high revving engine with near instant boost.
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Turbo V6 pleases me.
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I agree that the interior leaves a lot to be desired. Its too bland looking. Sadly, I think we have seen the death of the stick shift for upper tier cars.

I'm excited about the Ecoboost V6 for this car (mustang not so much). I'm hoping we see a high revving engine with near instant boost.
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OK Torque..whata ya think.. yay nay..lol Your like mikey in the cereal commercial.
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OK Torque..whata ya think.. yay nay..lol Your like mikey in the cereal commercial.
I liked the GT40 and the GT, this one not so much, it looks like it´s too long, I don´t like the length proportions (from the side look the rear end looks too long), the steering wheel is a cluster****, the V6 sounds like a diesel truck, and it´s a V6 and not a V8


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no V8 no care, if I want a V6 I would buy a Nissan GT-R
What the heck does one have to do with the other? If you wanted a Ford GT type car, you wouldn't be buying a GT-R, regardless of what engine is in it.
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I was thinking the same thing.

If you won't buy a certain car because of one detail you're fairly ignorant of, you:

1.) aren't the market they're going after
2.) aren't the buyer they're interested in
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I'm hoping that's just a mockup instrument cluster and that it revs higher than 7k.
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I like it overall, but the two undressed circular exhaust ports coming out of the center of the body is such an amateurish design touch. Looks like something straight off a crappy kit car.

Other than that, it's pretty awesome. I like the overall shape, rest of the exterior, interior, I'm fine with the TTV6, etc. It's pretty nice other the exhaust bodywork, I really hope they change that.
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I'm hoping that's just a mockup instrument cluster and that it revs higher than 7k.
supposedly, this is the production model.
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