You can like Ford’s unorthodox selection process for the 2017 Ford GT or not, but you can’t deny that the Blue Oval is paying back the loyalty shown by those who can proudly call themselves members of the Ford GT family by virtue of having owned the previous-generation version of the supercar.
Speaking with @FordOnline, Ford Chief Technical Officer Raj Nair opened up on the process by which the company picked the first 500 owners of the new Ford GT and admitted that applicants who own a current Ford model played a big part in getting past the proverbial velvet rope and into the GT club. According to Nair, 87% of the selected Ford GT applicants are existing Ford owners. More importantly, 69% of the accepted applications belonged to those who have specifically owned a previous generation Ford GT.
Do the math on those percentages and of the 500 people lucky enough to get first dibs on the 2017 GT’s initial two-year production run, 435 count them as existing Ford owners and 345 of them have owner a 2005 Ford GT. Take the calculations a step further and of the 4,038 units made of the 2005 GT, roughly eight percent - or less depending on whether they still have the 2005 model - of them will become owners of both versions of the GT supercar.
Even though only 500 of the 6,500 applicants for the new GT supercar will have get the first two-year production run, those who didn’t make the initial cut could still get their hands on the new GT provided that Ford builds more units after 2018, which by all indications, is what’s going to happen.
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