Ford putting supercars on notice

[aschen]

20 years ago when race car for the road meant lightweight big for period fixed wing and race inspired seats, I thought that was the pinnacle of street car concept: 996 gt3, exige, evo, even carrera gt and f40

Now it means active areo, huge power, rear wheel steer, electronic diffs, etc.......this stuff just doesnt make much sense on a road car. "supercars" have gotten dumb by being too smart.

miata/basic cayman/emira/gr86 are more interesting to me than top of the range models

The one exception is the gordon murray t50, he seems to get what a super car should be

[GH85Carrera]

Yea, all the modern supercars are just computers driving the car, and the "driver" just making suggestions to the 100 computer systems in the car about where to go. They are way faster than 100% manual street cars, and the driver thinks they are really fast, but it is the car doing a lot of the work. The Carrera GT was about the last of the true driver car with no computer nannies, just driver skill to make it fast.

[pwd72s]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

“Mustang GTD shatters every preconceived notion of a supercar. "

So a "supercar" is now defined as Mustang? I always thought of a
Supercar as something exotic - or a car Mike Mercury drove.

"This is a new approach for us. We didn’t engineer a road car for the track, we created a race car for the road. Mustang GTD takes racing technology from our Mustang GT3 race car, wraps it in a carbon fiber Mustang body and unleashes it for the street.”

A "a race car for the road" is utterly irresponsible. They are producing a suicide/homicide machine for people with more money than driving ability and turning them loose on public streets.

Of course, we can't say that Porsche produces a suicide/homocide machine.

[HardDrive]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

“Mustang GTD shatters every preconceived notion of a supercar. "

Especially the preconceived notion that a $300k should be attractive.

[chapo]

Cool car. never seen a GT3 Rs on the track, only at cars and coffee or puttering down PCH. /thatswhat supercars do, sit in garages and go to C&C.

[chapo]

300k is nothing, guys are paying 2x asking price for any of the "special edition" Porsches. Has Porsche run out of tributes yet?

[pwd72s]

Originally Posted by chapo

Cool car. never seen a GT3 Rs on the track, only at cars and coffee or puttering down PCH. /thatswhat supercars do, sit in garages and go to C&C.

Hey, at least the Mustangs crash into the crowd.

[chapo]

Never seen that either, but saw Lambo guy be an idiot. Money is money.

[911boost]

My RS has lots of track miles on it from previous owners and even was a European deliver and did the Ring.

One more year of kids sports and then I will get my weekends to myself as an empty nester and it will see the track again.

[Racerbvd]

Originally Posted by chapo

300k is nothing, guys are paying 2x asking price for any of the "special edition" Porsches. Has Porsche run out of tributes yet?

They will make up more, hell they brought the "T" back.

Hey, at least the Mustangs crash into the crowd.

Nothing wrong with crowd participation.

[Steve Carlton]

Will it be available in Dark Highland Green?