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JGTC has changed it's name to Super GT

I thought Kazunori Yamauchi drives his car known as Opera Performance S2000.

I just want to let someone know that I was searching for "ford gt" and I think I might have accidentally created a blank page at Ford_gt (instead of the legitimate article Ford_GT, note capitalization). I'm uncertain as to how to delete the blank page. --Electronbrain 17:47, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Most poor car in terms of Quality

This is the most poorest cars in terms of quality and fuel economy,it does 4 miles/g only. Seen all this in T.V programme "Topgear".

  • You're wrong, read the specs. Clarkson is exagerrating as usual. This car is very durable compared to its competitors. Also, in fuel economy you will find it superior to F430 AND Mucielago.
  • Indeed, Clarkson was making a tongue-in-cheek jab as regards to his love/hate relationship with his own GT. It wasn't supposed to be a serious remark.
  • "In the last episode of Season 7, during the Top Gear Awards, Clarkson awarded the Ford GT the "Gas Guzzler" award, beating out the Range Rover (8MPG), the Bugatti Veyron (4MPG), and (as a joke) the Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire Oil Storage Terminal fire (60 Million gallons and never moved an inch)." - I suggest someone rephrase or remove this. It's misleading. In fact, I think the whole section should be removed. It's biased and uninformative; it's more of a series of jokes than encyclopedic material.
  • Agreed. Its not encylcopedic CJ DUB 14:12, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

I have a GT, and it's my daily driver when I'm in Los Angeles. Its fuel economy is excellent if you drive it smoothly. In city driving, your gear progression should be 2-4-5-6 (6 if you can get to 40mph+). Drive smoothly, and you get 16mpg in the city, 20 average and 22-23 on the freeway. I have yet to find an easier car to drive.

You are a lucky man.

[edit] Sales Figures

Other editors created a monthly production table for 2004-2006, but abandoned updating the figures after March 2006. I found the sales figures for June-August and YTD. Still searching for April and May 2006 - still TBD. Production officially ends at the end of September 2006 [1], but sales of remaining inventory may continue through the end of the year, and possibly into 2007. Source for sales figures: http://media.ford.com - although the archives only go back so far. --T-dot 18:36, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] LeMans

Why is it that the Ford GT has yet to be used at LeMans? It and a few other cars would be a great revival for the good old days of LeMans.

Ford GT Shelby GR-1 (Daytona) Lamborghini Miura Chevrolet Corvette Porsche 911

All we need now is a new Dino, and we have the old LeMans again.

[edit] 0-60

Are you sure the 0-60 time is 3.3 seconds?

According to this: http://www.fordstreetracing.com/cars/highperformance.asp (and other sources where I've seen it) 1995 Ford GT90 Concept does 0-60 in 3.1s and 2005 Ford GT in 3.3s --Insaneisme 16:32, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

With the power these cars put on the roads, 0-60 times vary wildly due to many factors: - driver quality - tire state (pressure, temp, quality) - weather (cold, hot, high/low pressure) - tarmac quality

You can often get a +/- .5 seconds due to these factors.

More importantly those are track times. You will never get anywhere remotely within those times on an everyday street surface.

[edit] video games

Edited article to show that the Ford GT is in enthusia professional racing.

Added the fact the Ford GT also appears on the retail box / DVD case of PC version of Test Drive Unlimited.

[edit] Picture of Ford GT

I'm kinda new here so I don't really know the etiquette of adding a picture, so I'll just say that you guys have my permission to add my picture of a Ford GT if you want to: http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=320210261&context=set-72157594406337776&size=l -- Mike 19:35, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks Mike - that is indeed a very nice image - far better than the ones currently used, one of the best automobile images available I think, and better than most on the Wikipedia. But the source page also says "all rights reserved", which means it is copyrighted; and copying it to the Wikipedia would likely constitute a copyright violation for which we could be sued. We would need to have verifiable "proof" that you are the creator and owner of the image, and that you have released it to the public domain as free use, before we could use it. It is very high quality though - exactly the sort of image I like to see posted, but it has to be legal. Click the "Upload file" link (see left column) if you are indeed the legal owner and creator of the image, and we'll try to help you get it posted in the article. See Wikipedia:Images and Wikipedia:Uploading images for more information. Very nice piece of work. --T-dot (Talk | contribs) 11:13, 6 March 2007 (UTC)


Ok, I did what you asked: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ford_GT_High_Quality.jpg -- Mike 03:40, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Famous owners list

There is a discussion of having a list like the one on this one deleted, well I am totally up for it. Well it currently under discussion here. Willirennen 20.51 2 December 2006

[edit] plagiarism

You do know that copying and pasting entire segments of an article, even if you do reference it, is still plagiarism? Get a clue wikipedia, you bunch of egghead wannabes wouldn't know academic editing and referencing if it bit you in the rear end. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.10.83.103 (talk • contribs)

Thank you for pointing out what you see as an apparent rule violation. The Wikipedia does not tolerate plagiarism within articles, but requires that posted information is neutral, verifiable with reliable sources, avoiding weasel wording, and not constitute original research. If you think a source has been improperly plagiarized, then please help by providing examples and evidence of your charges, so the article can be properly cleaned up. Thanks again for your comments, although you want to avoid making personal attacks on other editors. --T-dot (Talk | contribs) 11:01, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Jeremy Clarkson Section

An editor removed the Clarkson section by noting "popular assent." I reverted it back to get an explanation as to why one editor felt that he had good reason to delete it. If its because several editors expressed concern about the section, then I could completely understand. But seeing the closest thing that I can see on the talk page is "Oh, we cant have lists of famous owners" im perplexed at this editors reasoning. --293.xx.xxx.xx 06:38, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Its nothing to do with a list of owners. It is meaningless trivial tripe from 1 owner, who happens to be an quasi auto journalist. Clarkson is also sensationalist and non-objective. He does not deserve a whole section in this article that is supposed to be about the Ford GT automobile. His comments on the car warrant as much space in the article as lame fan cruft. Remove it. CJ DUB 18:55, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
Agreed. As I said earlier, it's misleading, biased, uninformative, and unencyclopedic. But if there's any good reason to keep it, let's hear it.SilverDistortioN 18:26, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pricing

The price figures are very confusing as figures are sometimes given in reference to the recommended price, and the chronology is broken. I do not understand the section well enough to fix it, and there are no sources given for the figures Canterwoodboy 13:22, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

The edit that took place here: 21:51, 11 October 2007 97.66.0.154 altered the pricing and states that people paid as much as $100,000,000 premium over suggested retail. This edit also changed other numbers, and my guess is it was not malicious, but I'm not sure what the accurate numbers are. —Preceding unsigned comment added by NeilCoughlin (talk • contribs)