I agree with a lot of you, that the new car comes up short for OUR perspective. But our perspective is that of folks who like cars, like to build cars, like to build motors, and like to tinker with things and, oh my gosh, might actually take the things out and race them.
The new car is about none of this.
From the other side of things - that is, the car is to re-create a historic car for modern consumer consumption, with modern features, and to compete with modern supercars it is a winner - no doubt. But it is definitely targeted to a different audience.
The folks that buy the new one aren't going to take it apart and constantly improve it, probably won't race it, and will probably just take them for Sunday drives and sit around and look at it.
Still, I like the car and give a lot of credit to Ford for going ahead with production - they've needed something like this since forever.
Just my 2 cents, there it is.
Ron