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There is no GT plant....
Each car is hand built very much like the Viper. In this case the car will be much more exclusive.
This is a retro car for those that do not know. In the 60's when the horsepower wars were heating up every Detroit company was looking to make the mark on racing. Ford... and i mena the man Ford had decided he was going to take LeMans and show the world that Fod was capable of taking down Ferrari and the likes.
Ford Entereds the Team Guernay driven GT 40 and went 1 2 3 for the first time in european racig history the Americans were looked upon as a threat and a viable one at that. For the remainder of the 60's american Muscle would light up the race track on both closed cources and dragstrips.
The Ford GT 40 would go down in history as the little car from the motor city that reminded the world that thge U.S. can produce the worlds most exotic racers when desired.
In the 1970's the oil embargo placed such an emphasis on fuel economy that the American auto manufacturers had to abandon most of the perfromance based initiatives.
Today we continue to capture the magic of that era by celebratiing the design and performance with tribute cars and throwback brands like GTo the new designed Mustang the Ford GT and the Dodge Viper (few people know that Carol Shelby was a big part of the design influence on the first rt/10 and GTS)
anyway...
I think the Ford GT is an amazing car that is more than just a fast American production exotic.... It is a celebration of the day Detroit sent Italy home with a loss
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