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  1. dmark1

    dmark1 F1 World Champ BANNED Owner

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    Sorry and quite agree
     
  2. kverges

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    These hyper-expensive exotics don't do it for me. First, I don't have the $$$$ to afford one and risk it on track. Second, the price/performance ratio is skewed - if I am going to spend this kind of money, I'd have a dedicated track car and the sports racers from Radical, Wolf, Ligier, Riley and others are way faster than these cars for way less money. Third, the only way they hold value is if you don't drive them. I've been shopping Ford GTs lately and not only are they expensive (near $300K up for most), the examples for sale are such low mileage ( some delivery miles) that they can't be driven. And some of the cars with miles look terrible.

    But it sure looks like every singe 918, P1 and LaFa sold and are only available at a premium second hand, so maybe I should have gotten one and get in line for this one and just plan on selling.
     
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    WILLIAM H Three Time F1 World Champ

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    They're pretty much all sold already
     
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    They could sell them at $500k and flippers would still make big profits on resales"

    Btw the racer is insane. Will be fun competimg against napolis racer
     
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    Z4 GT3 and R8 LMS don't seem to have an issue with it ;)
     
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    Are they going to race in LMP1 (or what ever the top prototype class is called)?
    A "class" win will do little to drive sales (and dealer gouging) that has been alluded to, only the overall win matters in such things (adjusted market value, etc).

    Jimmy
     
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    They won't have trouble selling them at 400k. Matter of fact most dealers will be "Market adjusting" them up between $75k and $200k OVER MSRP.

    None are sold yet as no dealer has been assigned an allocation.

    3500 US dealers. Fewer than 1,000 to be produced. 2 out of 3 dealers will never see a single car.

    I suspect these cars will quickly sell for $1M or more inside of the first year.
     
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    Agreed, and very few will see the road at speed and even less will see the track, pity.
     
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    I had heard that Chip Gnassi will be racing in the GT class next year...they are getting out of LMP class..
     
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    The sad part is ford does not make 5k of these and sell them for 250K a piece, that way normal mortals might get some and play with them.

    I guess the tooling for a bigger run looms large in the beancounters mind, and ford gets the halo effect with a few hundred so why bother, pity.
     
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    I agree. The car is made by Multimatic for Ford. Still a Ford, but a shop of that size just can't put out massive numbers. Hopefully they invest so the next run can really be mass produced.

    But the new GT350R looks pretty insane...engine in particular. Have to give them credit for that thing.
     
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    Le Mans in 2016.

    [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVa4mlFZEmM[/ame]
     
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    Do a lot of those scenes look like CGI?
     
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    Yea, I thought they looked a little bogus - something like an XBox game.

    I did like the prancing horse cameo at the end :)
     
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    Great video, exciting news. Need to go to LM next year now.
     
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    Great news. The car does look nice in race trim. Now if it can only live up to the 1966 Ford GT MKII's history!!
     
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    1st race will be Jan 2016 rolex 24 in daytona
     
  24. Ryan S.

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    +1 love this car
     
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    Very exciting, and very exciting that 'Merican winner Gannasi is involved. CHARGE!
     

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