Quote Originally Posted by Donut King View Post
From my perspective, this is a statement of intent the likes of which we haven't seen from Ford perhaps since the original GT40. As a Ford fan it's pretty bloody exciting place to be.

I mean we've seen GT cars since then, concepts like the GT90, the production GT's of the mid '00's and 2010's which have appeared commercially successful and with some success at Lemans, this is a whole different level.

My ears pricked up back with S650's launch where they mentioned they were going back to Lemans and I wondered what that would look like. I would never have dreamt it was leading somewhere like this.

To compete outright at Lemans in a current hypercar there's not much of a relevance back to a road car offering that doesn't really lend itself to a Mustang style offering. That obviously changes in the GT kind of classes that have been dominated for so long by the 911.

But a 911 and a Mustang aren't really comparable. Or at least they weren't. The beloved pony car has never really been in the pure sports car style mould. S550 took a half step there, S650 seems to be leaving the half step safety net behind.

The sports credentials have been turned up to 11, or so we thought. GTD may just make that 15. There's a range of offerings that are unprecedented. Who really saw this coming?

This is special. I'm floored. It's something Ford claimed to still embody. We saw pockets of it in GT-F, the Falcon Fanatics with FGX's launch, in Sprint. In S550 if you watched the "A faster horse" documentary, in the S650 launch which was very fan focussed.

We saw pockets. Never any evidence that those pockets could produce something like this.

I can't wait to see a car like this on track at the Bathurst 12hr. This makes me proud to be a Blue oval supporter again.
Won't ever happen...