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Originally Posted by cnicolini
I have just complained on their website and told them 'what does the man know, who paid £80k for a FORD GT40, I mean all that money for a FORD!!!' We should all complain:
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I really, really hope your joking? You actually formally complained because his opinion did not match what you thought it should be?
The end result will be Clarkson and the boys (and probably the millions of viewers if he decides to make it a news item) laughing their arses off and you having some sort of blood pressure induced attack. Calm down, he is totally entitled to have a different opinion to you and totally entitled to air it wether you agree with him or not.
Oh, and not being a pedant or anything... well actually I am....
The Ford that Clarkson bought was a
Ford GT.
NOT a GT40, GT40's were made years ago and raced at LeMans and were named as such because the roof was 40inches off the road. The new lookalike was actually a bit taller so the '40' was dropped from the name. In fact Ford
NEVER officially refered to the car as the "GT40" even when it only existed in concept form, it was always called the "
Ford GT"
And the reason his car turned out to be more trouble than it was worth was due to the Alarm system fitted by Ford UK constantly shutting the car down, the car itself was fine and the American models (without the Ford UK alarm addition) work very well indeed. In fact for the money he paid (it was infact around £101k on the road) there wasn't alot that could keep up on straights or twisty's. Hell, the
Ford GT even won the British evo car of the year test when it launched in the uk against cars costing several thousand more.
So dissing his knowledge based on your lack of knowledge only makes you look a little... erm... ill informed. Sorry.
Ford GT, Proper honest supercar... unfortunatly 'blessed' with a UK fitted alarm system
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