Did Ford can this too or what?

 

What do you mean can? It was a concept.

 

We can only hope. That thing was ugly as sin.

 

Yes it was shelved.
for that GTR1 or whatever it was called..but dont know about that..
I know ford said it was doing another supercar after the GT but now??

 

That could have been an easy thing for Ford to build for the road.
1. Take the new Mustang chassis, DC2.
2.Cut out the rear seat area to shorten the chassis, reinforce chassis
3. Drop in GT500's SC 5.4
4. Profit

 

I mean can as in there was a rumor they were bringing this out once they were done with the GT.

 

If I had the cash I would have bought it over a Ford GTX-1.

 

It was envisioned as the next "collector" car from Ford.

The idea was to use much of the hardware from the Ford GT, and it would have been far cheaper to produce than even the GT (which was funded by donations from other departments within Ford, ie: voluntary donations from the budgets of Ford's autoshows, R&D, design studio, advertising, etc...).

What killed it was lukewarm public reaction (personally, I loved the thing).

Ford's GR-1 was more successful. It also would have cost a pittence to make, would have made some serious bank per car (again, based on the already paid Ford GT structure) if it sold for the same price as the GT. It died when Ford started killing off spending on everything from SVT to Lincoln's "ultra" luxury car.

Ironically, the GR-1 would be coming out between now and the fall, which would have given Ford a serious shot in the arm image-wise as the GT did. Big difference is that now, Ford really needed it.





More:
http://media.ford.com/newsroom/featu...?release=19670

 

The Cobra concept was awful. The GR-1 was ok, in a '70's-exotic sort of way.

Now that Ford is 12 billion in the hole for 2006, I don't think they could be piddling around with low volume exotics even if they did make some money.

 

That car is ****ing hot. Period.

Shame it's not coming out.

So what the hell does Ford have for flagship vehicles now? Special model upon special model of Mustangs? blah.

 

That would have been great Vette competition. It would have been a front engine car that should have been cheaper than the GT. The only downside I would think would it eating GT sales... Missed oppertunity at a cool heratige Cobra Coupe inspired flagship.