2005-2006 Ford GT40

[Historybuff]

Wow, 6'7" that's a tall order to fill with any sports car but I found after a ride in the GTX-1 version made by Genaddi design that it transformed the GT and made it a more user friendly car, seems so much more roomy without the roof. On the other hand I dorove it before Gerish had the top panels fully designed so wonder where he plans to store them in the car when he finally gets them finalized. I think the GT represents performance far beyond the Z06 as exemplified by the fact that the Ford engineers bought a Z06 to compare it to but found it couldn't match the performance envelope of the GT. Maybe Z06s have improved but their quantity also will dilute the value where '05-'06 Ford GTs are frozen in time at 4038 produced so I don't think they will depreciate beyond a certain point like the Z06s will because every day Chevy is making more Z06s.

[clayfoushee]

Originally Posted by Historybuff

Wow, 6'7" that's a tall order to fill with any sports car but I found after a ride in the GTX-1 version made by Genaddi design that it transformed the GT and made it a more user friendly car, seems so much more roomy without the roof. On the other hand I dorove it before Gerish had the top panels fully designed so wonder where he plans to store them in the car when he finally gets them finalized. I think the GT represents performance far beyond the Z06 as exemplified by the fact that the Ford engineers bought a Z06 to compare it to but found it couldn't match the performance envelope of the GT. Maybe Z06s have improved but their quantity also will dilute the value where '05-'06 Ford GTs are frozen in time at 4038 produced so I don't think they will depreciate beyond a certain point like the Z06s will because every day Chevy is making more Z06s.

Historybuff, I think your account of history may be a little off. I don't recall Ford engineers using the Z06 as the comparison set. Their target was Ferrari.

If they had done that, they would have been shooting a little low, because the only Z06 that would have been available during GT development was the C5 version with 100 less HP, than the current C6 version. The Ford GT was released as a 2005, well before the new generation C6 Z06 (debuting as a 2006), and they now have a similar power-to-weight ratio when stock. The C6 Z06 is significantly lighter, the GT has more HP. Averaging the published tests shows the cars virtually identical in various performance tests. It pretty much boils down to the driver.