Wednesday, April 13, 2016

The Ford GT Purchase Application: Here’s What’s On It

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-Have you heard? The Ford GT online configurator is here, and ready for you to spend your whole day building 5000 varieties of EcoBoost supercars with 600-plus horsepower. But even if you’re ready to spend $450,000 on Ford’s Dearborn supercar, you won’t be able to just walk into your local dealership and grab one. There’s an application process, and each buyer must be personally approved by Ford before they can custom-order one of the 500 GTs being built over the next two years.

What does Ford want to know about its prospective GT purchasers? Here’s every question on the online application. Some are pretty standard, some are a little surprising.

First off, these are the countries Ford will deliver your GT to. Sorry, Russia—you’ll have to figure it out on your own.

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After providing your name, mailing address, email, and work and mobile phone numbers, Ford next asks you to indicate how you’re involved with the automaker and its motorsports endeavors. Each checkbox you select adds a few specific questions further into the application; for the purposes of this post, I selected every option.

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Successful applicants will be contacted by a Ford GT Concierge Service, which will guide you through your customized ordering process. The Concierge will then work with an approved Ford dealership of your choosing, or a regional GT-approved franchise, to complete the purchase and delivery.

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Much like Ferrari, Ford will give preference to current owners of its supercars, in this case 2004-2007 GTs. Apparently, the more GTs you own, the better.

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Ford also seems to have an interest in people who actually drive their GTs, rather than simply hoarding them away in a private collection. Bravo!

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There’s also a place for you to indicate which recent or historically important Fords are found in your collection. Sadly, I could not find a “past Fords owned” box to highlight the 1998 Contour I drove in grad school. I hope this omission doesn’t negatively affect my chances.

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Ford Fleet customers get the chance to highlight their close relationship with the automaker, as do industry suppliers and “strategic partners,” presumably industry consultants, advertising agencies, and the like.

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Here’s where you get to share how you’d use your Ford GT for charity. Ford has said it will make customers sign a contract agreeing that they won’t turn around and sell their GTs, although it’s not clear whether Ford would lift that restriction for charities intending to raffle off chances to win a GT.

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Here’s where collectors get to show off the contents of their garages. Note how Ford zooms in on the FoMoCo content of a collection. We have to assume that folks with Ford-centric collections will get preference, as Ferrari does with limited-edition new offerings.

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Social media magnates, rejoice! You’ve got a page on the Ford GT application to explain how your massive Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and Vine following entitles you to a 600-plus horsepower, twin turbo, carbon-fiber Ford supercar.

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All that frivolity aside, Ford seems to be genuinely interested in steering the new GT toward folks who actually will use its capabilities. This section asks about your racing skills and motorsports involvement.

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Finally, we get to the “open response” section. Got a YouTube video indicating why you deserve a GT? Maybe some photos of your collection of special-edition Mustangs? Here’s where you get to show how you stand out from the crowd.

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And that’s it! Your application is submitted and ready for the discriminating eye of Ford’s panel of GT judges. Best of luck—and seriously, if you get approved, hit me up.

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This story originally appeared on Road & Track.


from Car and Driver Blog http://blog.caranddriver.com/the-ford-gt-purchase-application-heres-whats-on-it/


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