Ford GT production in Canada extended for two more years

Ford Motor Co. has announced that it is extending the production of its Ford GT Supercar for two more years. Intially producting 500 GTs, with 250 being built a year at a facility in Markham, Ontario, the company has accepted it received 6,506 applications for the first 500 vehicles which are priced at $400.000 a piece.

“While we can’t build enough Ford GTs for everyone who has applied, we are going to produce additional vehicles in an effort to satisfy more of our most loyal Ford ambassadors,” said Dave Pericak, global director at Ford Performance, in a statement Friday. “We want to keep Ford GT exclusive, but at the same time we know how vital this customer is to our brand.”

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Ford's GT configurator lets you customize the supercar as you like it

Whether you actually have the funds to buy one or not, Fords new GT supercar can be yours, or at least seem like it is, when you design how it looks with the car's online configurator. It lets the potential 500 buyers design the car how they would like it to look. The changes are rather simple though, you can customize the interior and exterior color choices, wheel choices, and the like. On the site, there also seems to be two Series options that are listed as coming soon, these might be some special edition liveries for a special car.

Source: Ford | Via: SlashGear

2017 Ford GT Concept will be a Canadian-built technology platform for future cars

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

At the media preview of this year's Canadian International AutoShow, we got to talk to Ford Canada's Marketing Manager Marc Vejgman who walked us through some of the company's latest vehicles. Most notable was the 2017 Ford GT, a 600 horsepower supercar that is slated to be built in Canada and which will showcase various new technologies that Ford expects to bring to other vehicles in its stable of brands. The Ford GT Concept will be viewable at the Toronto Metro Convention Centre until February 21st.