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Ford dealers are not oriented or capable of selling a low production $300K car. Customers for $300K cars like the status of a Ferrari or a Lambo and like to pay a few thousands for an oil change and tire rotation . McLaren is a hard car to sell even at discount. Lets wait until the Zora comes...

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I know the difference between Market and Population. In 2013 Ferrari Sold 700 cars in China (mainland, taiwan and HK) alone (2nd largest market) and very close in the UK (largest European market). Japan sales were also high. Australia market is over 100 cars a year and shortage of cars...

I spend the past 3 weeks in Australia including 3 day in Tasmania. It was nice to see the different cars from Ford and GM (Holden) in Australia. It is sad the production will end next year. Guessing why Ford closed manufacturing was due to the unique design of Ford Australia did not fit into...

I do not think that manual transmissions will hang out with some cars with character. the issue is cost. In less than 5 years the cost of DCT will go down that will make it into low cost american muscle cars (mustang and Chevy). ZF has a 7 speed DCT than could go on Mustang and Camaro in the...

Last month when the story breakout I said it could be a V6 and everybody did not like the idea. I think the Lemans trim will be 600HP but the street version could lower. The price could be below 200K. More than that will be hard to sell against other supercars (Ferrari, Lambo, McLaren etc)...

the continuation cars chassis were done by Kenny Thompson. KarKraft closed their business several years ago (they sold Ford parts and Engines). Teske registered the kar-kraft name for the continuation cars. Kenny did built an oven to bake the chassis if my memory does not fails me when we...

I think R&T had an article a few month ago about the high maintenance cost of exotic cars. I claimed that McLaren has to be shipped to England for service and the Enzo needed a special lift for service. The Ford GT was designed using the Ford's parts inventory. I am really sorry I did not buy a...

By the end of the run I was on a Ford Dealer in Tampa Florida looking for a GT500 and he had 2 Ford GT in the showroom (Gulf colors and white/blue) and he was having problem selling them in early 2007. The price were below $140K. The Ford GT interest is from the last 3 or 4 years with prices...

My 07 GT500 is 11MPG if I do not push it in city driving. The Focus which is my daily drive is around 27MPG. I purchased a Escape with 1.6 EcoB. for my daughter and it moves very good but my fuel economy is not that high. Maybe is my daughter heavy foot. What I am concern is that I would...

. I would love a V-8 but the market is moving to efficient cars and hybrids. My hope is a sustainable Ford GT program with a longer shelf life. You have two choices a mega Ford GT with over 600HP to compete in that market or 400+HP V-6 with a lite version similar in size to the Alfa 4C with...

I would be nice for a modern Ford GT with V-6 twin Turbo same dimensions of the original to compete with the new Alfa and low cost Porsche. A fun car to drive and a longer production life with a bigger brother in the future. The last Ford GT was suppose to be the direction for Ford with a...

I do not see the interest for a GT40 replica to have the new 5.2L engine. The cost will be very high and the look will be wrong. The amount of parts available for the old SB Ford and at a very reasonable price. The complexity of the installation of the 5.2L would be difficult and expensive...

Going back to J-10 is in the final stages of Restoration. MK-IV body in the Le Mans color configuration.

Lead was used for two purpose, octane boost and valve seat lubrication. In the absence of lead other additives and different valve seat material were used to avoid the problem. Higher octane gas is available at a high cost. My ERA GT runs very nice on 93 octane when the engine is at normal...

Kit Cars for me is a vehicle you buy in a kit which contains all the parts minus the drive train and paint. The owner will finish the car himself or pay. The bad connotations of the kit car early era dune buggies and Valkyres (fiberfab) mounted on VW chassis. Call it a Replica or Kit Car is...

Kit car will not apply to Superformance since the cars are delivery almost finish. Replica is more adequate.

Left Hand drive, engine and good finish will give you away.

The late planning of the 50th year of the Ford GT program and changing from the Glen to VIR does not look good for a good turnout of original cars and replicas. Specially with the high cost and distance to VIR. From what I read from the comments here other people have their own issues and...

"While RA is more central the logistics do not work as well. As this would be in conjunction with an SVRA event we are limited to the previously scheduled vintage events. the Shelby Club (SAAC) is holding their national convention at the June RA event so all of the possible track time is taken...