Supercar-hungry Britain is going to have a bad time as reports are talking about Ford’s plans to allocate less than 20 examples of its GT supercar per year in the UK.
Company officials are already talking about the huge domestic interest in the upcoming Ford GT with Ford UK’s boss Andy Barratt saying to Autocar: “I’m fighting very hard for the allocation because when we produced the last GT, 101 came to Europe and only 28 officially came to the UK”.
Ford has already declared a limited production run of just 250 units per year without announcing how many GTs will build in total. The number though is expected to be far smaller than the 4,000 examples produced last time the GT was around in 2005-06.
“We haven’t declared the absolute run for this GT, but the numbers are going to be a lot lower than the 2005 car. Selfishly, seven per cent of Ford’s global sales are in the UK, so my argument is ‘can we have seven per cent?’. I want as many as I can because it is such an iconic car”, said Barratt.
If Ford keeps the total number of cars produced around the 1,000 mark as expected, that means that the best-case scenario for the UK is to receive around 17 to 18 of the annual total of 250 cars, which clearly can’t cover the domestic demand for the Blue Oval’s latest twin-turbo V6 supercar.
The new Ford GT will be produced in Canada by Multimatic Motorsports and is expected to debut in late 2016. The twin-turbo 3.5-litre V6 is expected to make over 600hp and up to even 700hp through a seven-speed double clutch gearbox. As for the price, the new Ford GT is expected to cost around £240,000 in the UK (about $373,000 in current exchange rates).
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