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| Road Test: Ford GT (2004-) |
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by: Andrew Frankel |
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Ford GT Gallery
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Likely to be horrendous. Expect appalling fuel, tyre and brake pad bills if you use it in anything approaching the manner for which it was designed. Sky-high insurance is a cert and you won't be able to turn up at your local Ford garage and expect its staff to be trained to service it. This is likely to be done by just a few specialist centres. Then again, if you have to think about running costs for a car such as this, you almost certainly shouldn't be buying it in the first place.
It appears beyond dispute that, for now at least - and things can change - the GT will prove a great investment new or used. Just don't expect to pick up a one-year-old for 40 percent off - 40 percent on is much more likely. Given that the rights to the first production car sold for $500,000, the £100,000 or so that was asked for the handful of GTs that found their way to Britain looked like one of the biggest bargains of all time. Get one and it seems likely that, far from costing you money, you could run it for a year or more, sell it and end up with more money in the bank that when you started.
In private, certain Ford people will tell you they no know they got the price wrong and could have charged 50 per cent more for it and not affected the order book to any great degree.
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Introduction A little over 40 years ago, Ford very nearly bought Ferrari before the... |
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