Posted on 01/12/2015 7:19:26 AM PST by taildragger
Ford did it. They actually went and did it. It's been rumored about and speculated on for months, but now we know it's real.
This is it: the new Ford GT. Ford just dropped a bomb on the rest of the world, and it's got a twin-turbo EcoBoost V6, if you can believe it.
If you have to ask, you are not a buyer.
Thanks, but I’ll take a Corvette please....Why? You don’t like handling?
I do know why they had engine size restrictions. Back in the late 1960's Ford was putting 427s in the Ford GT 40's and the European car manufactures couldn't compete with the Americans on that scale.
Gas mileage requirements will probably keep engine size smaller.
I figured Ford would run it in the Prototype class, or the class the original class the old GT40s ran in.
Follow up:
http://www.europeanlemansseries.com/en/s02_corporate/s02p14_reglement.php
I guess that was only for the Grand Touring Challenge division.
I owned a 66 Goat in my younger days. It really was a great car.
EODGUY
Haha. If I could afford one I’d never park it within 100 feet of another car.
No thanks,prefer the older GT. That new version pumping that many horses out of a small engine sounds like a high-maintenance,short-life device & besides,the older versions look better IMHO.
Ford LaFerrari. I’ll take the 5.2L Mustang.
Wow....I want that! Very cool.
(Corvette’s over there boohooing.)
Why get a PONY..
when ya can get a HEMI?
Looks like Ford stole a bunch of Italian stylists.
A friend of mine has this 2005 GT........Who wants a HEMI when you can afford this?
Heh. And?
Shelby built it at a time when Americans were just Americans- and proud to be Americans.
He built it just to see how fast it was- saying it was a Monster that threw belts off on a regular basis!
And?
And no American coach builder made a chassis the size he needed at the time, so he had to source a British one. Shelby was a genius with the AC Cobra, but the British chassis is as iconic as the American ingenuity under it.
IIRC, the current Corvette racer ( C7R?) has a 5.5L engine and is legal for GT2. A 5.2L engine wouldn’t be a problem there.
“2, how’s the fuel economy?”
You’re looking at a mid-engined exotic and wondering about its fuel economy? That shouldn’t be an issue if you can afford to purchase such a beast.
“I do know why they had engine size restrictions. Back in the late 1960’s Ford was putting 427s in the Ford GT 40’s and the European car manufactures couldn’t compete with the Americans on that scale.”
At that time the ACO limited displacement to 7 liters, and for whatever reason none of the European manufacturers built an engine anywhere near that large. As one example, Porsche stuck with a 3.0L engine in the 908 and didn’t go larger until the homologation requirements for Group 6 (which had a 5.0L limit) in the late ‘60s were decreased from 50 cars to 25, at which point they developed the 917.
The rest is, as they say, history. That era was a great one for endurance racing.
Speed Racer, lives!
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