Is Ford over as a legit car company?

Lot of samefagging from gm reps

Since when is it a good idea to limit the amount of sales? its not like this is fucking bugatti.

Found gm's marketing team

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Honestly, my only real gripe, apart from the shitposting which is limited to this site anyway, is the limited run.

Ford makes people's cars primarily. The mustang is a people's cars too, with the low price and affordable performance.

A limited run with selected customers is something a specialist brand would do, like pagani, ferrari, lamborghini or the exclusively exotic car maker of your choice. Yes, the GT40 was a very successful car, but it's too early for that with the new ford GT. I could assure you that if Ford switched to normal production it would be better. An 1000 car run just begs for rich people to turn them to garage queens apart from an occational cars and coffee along with a trackday cruise while never getting out of their comfort zone. And there are too many good people who deserve it, schmee as a potential owner aint one. And I'm pretty fucking sure the building cost of the car is way below of 400k. A massively produced 488 goes for 250 to 300k, which just shows they want to maximise profit. That's 320 million being made easy. And on top that, they are advertising that a performance car can use a V6 turbo engine and be very fast. That's more future sales there. Even the ecoboost radical is not a thing by chance. Ford offered them the engines and they took them and modified to what they wanted.

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With that done, I'll get back to what I said.
>it's too early for that with the new ford GT.

Before the condescending greentext, I won't lie, the GTE car is a good car, aside from shitposting. But it sandbagged at wec and IMSA until the LeMans round, and there is nothing wrong with that. Audi did that with the V8 quattro in the '91 DTM season and it was fine. Underhanded but fine. If you piece the puzzles, it makes sense. The GT is purely a high speed car. In Le Mans, it overtook the risi 488 while standing in the straight. After that, the ferrari could not retaliate. Even in the next laps, the ferrari could stick with the GT in the technical part of the course, but even while using the GT's slipstream, it could not go fast enough down mulsanne for the overtake.

On top of that, the GT had a higher top speed down the straight than the P2 cars, which along the GTE cars run a low downforce package that allows higher speeds. If you fast forward to the fuji round it get even more obvious, where the GT won its second race in WEC. Fuji's straight is almost a mile long. A third of the track is just that straight. If the start/finish line was in another place, the straight itself could be sector.

Will ford get away with doing it again in 2017? Maybe. Will it be as easy? Probably not.

tl;dr Get your shit together ford, and start making cars instead of rolling billboards.

>implying ferrari didn't sandbag
>implying ferrari isn't shit regardless
>implying the officials in WEC know what they're doing
They fucked Ford over again at Bahrain. Despite getting a massive BOP for the 10th fucking time in a season ford still placed second.

Tl;dr: You're fucking retarded.

>implying GM even makes a quad-turbo 1200HP V12.

Im starting to think this faggot is just a bot replying to posts on a purely random basis.

I wouldn't doubt it. They shill on this board non stop

We're getting a janitor now, though, right?

I hope so. These gm shills won't stop making these shitposting threads

>v6
>3.5L
>no manual option

I don't see a Ford supercar either

Try finding a GT350 or Focus RS for MSRP.

And a unicorn.

it has a dual clutch like all the Ferraris, I only like stickshift cars too and you fuckers embarrass us in threads like this

Is there even a currently manufactured supercar with a manual option? Lamborghini dropped it a couple years ago and Aston-Martin hasn't offered it for many years

>7 liter V12
>1200 HP

>Corvette does not have a dual clutch transmission in the current year
>Chevrolet is still selling it's flagship ""sportscar"" with a torque converter auto

>>Chevrolet is still selling it's flagship ""sportscar"" with a torque converter auto
Wait, you serious? not even manual only? they use a torque converter?

That's where serious performance starts.

They still sell a 7spd manual Corvette too. And what difference does the auto make, DCT or shitty slushbox, when the person buying an automatic Corvette is a dumb boomer who won't have the balls to drive it properly in the first place?

Seems like money well saved to me.

>muh vaguely defined term that busriders argue over

When it costs a shitload to make in the first place. It isn't mass produced.

I'm more surprised Ferrari dropped the manual transmission. I thought those cunts were all about

>muh passhun
>muh soul

Even at the cost of performance. At least Porsche sticks to tradition.

>7 speed manual

How would that even work?

>when the person buying an automatic corvette is a dumb boomer

True but there's a big difference between buying a sports car in TRQCNVTR and DCT. At least DCT kinda works like a manual.

Did you retards forget that shit like the manly as fuck dank knight itself 1986 Buick Regal GRAND FUCKING NATIONAL existed? And it fucking destroyed the Corvette to the point that GM put out a cease and desist to Buick's stroked Turbo 6 because it turned the V8 Vette into a whipping boy.

All you ratfucks whining about "but muh manual" or "but muh vee eight" need to learn a lil something about automotive history. The might GN only came in automatic, shitbirds.

The new Ford GT is a tarmac slaying supercar, its not a fucking sportscar. Its built purely for function. Get over yourselves. Its good at what it does.

>how would that even work
Like a standard transmission

But.... isn't Buick owned by GM?

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