Re: The new Ford GT
RC:I don't know, I kind of have a bad feeling about the Ford GT. How can a manufacturer like Ford build a super sportscar basically over night without the experience and tech companies like Ferrari, Porsche and even McLaren were used to develop and use for years? I am a bit skeptical, to say at least.
I know that Ford can make nice cars but looking at my GT500 for example, I think Ford is dumb. A Mustang GT500 with slightly better quality (interior) and AWD (or at least a 21st century TC) and a modern DSG would have blown out the competition out of the water, so I'm not really a fan of Ford when it comes to sportscars.
What's so hard? Their race cars are just as good or better than Ferrari, Porsche, and McLaren, so why wouldn't their road cars be? It's really not that hard to make an exotic car. It's not like Ferrari and Porsche create all their own components in secret. Manufacturers are often little more than assemblers. Suppliers provide a huge amount of the engineering and expertise for every car.
Ford has no less capable engineers than anyone else and they have vastly more money and resources than Ferrari or McLaren. Any talent they might lack can easily just be hired with ease. There is plenty of talent to go around.
Also, McLaren hadn't made a road car in like 20 years, yet the 12C/650S is way higher performance than the cars from Ferrari, Porsche, and Lamborghini at the time. 12C/650S is from like 2011. What Porsche and Ferraris were around in 2011?