2005 Ford GT drive review & behind the scenes story on why Ford built it.

welcome to a new video from Harry's Garage and today's car is a

2005

Ford GT, you see here, this is a UK example, so one of the 28 that came to the UK officially, 101 were exported back in the day , it's a car we know quite well. from the Evo days, this is the car of the year

2005

, it was when the little Renault Clio when I bought that car, the overall winner that year was a Ford GT and I thought I was lucky enough to

drive

it from France to the south of France. This test take place led him home so I put a lot of miles on one of these and it's a car that I really love and I think it's a very striking car so let's go and take a closer look at such a looking car. striking every time I buy one.

It is wonderfully proportioned. I always think about the Ford GT and I also loved the

story

of how it was

built

in the first place. Basically, Ford was thinking about how they would celebrate their centenary in 2003 and join a Volvo flight with senior management, so there was a suggestion that came from Chris Theodore, who had recently joined them from Chrysler, how about Do we make a mid-engine car similar to the original Ford GT40? It's a celebration of Ford manufacturing. J. Mays was there, Richard Perry. jones jack nasa listen yeah that's the great idea we were able to do that and that's how it was formed so it's on a flight to Volvo it would just be finalizing the deal because back then they were buying there were premium brands it was Land Rover . and Jaguar also bought it and it was actually on the flight to Volvo that this car was born, the conception of it and the trigger for its creation and abroad it is said that they then showed it in 2003 three prototypes and in fact it went into production.

Late 2004, 2005 and 2006 was the excellent car that rolled off the line. 4,000 were

built

in total, the only gift during the hundred years on the car's lease. If you look at that lighthouse, you will see the one between the two zeros which means one hundred. The years just work quite a bit on this side, so you have to look at that one, but that's the only way to know if it was a complete or inside joke of the hundred years, how to put it on the car, its design and how they got proportions. I mean, I take my hat off to the design team that Jae Mazor oversaw.

Jamie, you're pretty famous for making the Audi TT, how's that going? and then it went to the Ford Premier Division and it's a beautiful car, you know, it's hard to think that this is like that. It's not even half the age of 15 or the proportions were that right from the start. This particular car has these BBS's that were an option. It will forge where you are a little lighter, you get painted calipers, the stripes are extra and a CD

drive

. So it was a pretty basic car and as soon as it was launched the world went crazy for it and it was priced very attractively at $139,000 in the US with all the extras, about $13,000 extra although that was the price guide. and in America dealers are allowed to charge that's a guide price so they charged a little bit more and to start with it was around $200,000+ it was a bit rushed for the first cars and you can probably guess by what when you look at it. full of wonderful design features on this car, the front looks like it has these release hinges here on the hull, forward front hinges, it actually doesn't.

I put the key there, just that, take it out. I could then lift this. I'm afraid there is no starter on this car what you really do is simply reveal some sort of service. So this is the battery hiding there some ABS unit brake parts and the rear of the rat. I do that on the other side, the same type of hinges actually opens. the gas cap, which is smart, there's no other cap to do and then you just lift it up, grab the gas hose on another great detail of the original g24 gt40, of course, the doors.

I open the door wide, half of the roof comes out with it. It's a wonderful design feature that doesn't work so well in practice because it doesn't mean you have to open the door all the way to get in and out of the car if you're in one parking space and only two can open. There we do this kind of crazy limbo of trying to get you out of the car much easier if you can find space and you can open the door, and it's just a wonderful kind of design for you like no other. car only in this Ford GT, then we raise the backrest a little awkward, others catch the safety latches on both sides, but the 5.4-liter supercharged v8 engine and a wonderful unit that you will see when we take this out to drive a really muscular 550 horsepower This 500 foot five point four liter engine is talk, but it has power from the start and you feel that they are quite sophisticated units, very smooth, no vibrations, absolutely wonderful engine for this car, gives it such character, tazewell dry sump, so although this car wasn't really. a competition car, they tried something to place the engine well in the chassis, they only left the crankcase, that's unpleasant.

Candice arrived to take the engine there and the correct handling and dynamics in this car were the big impact. Richard Perry Jones was the man in charge. that he is a very keen competition enthusiast Radhi drives at that time remembers the Ford Focus how good it was a real surprise that they had a real dynamic master in Ford when this car was produced and it shines in every way, actually it doesn't have that much Probably Have you noticed that it has space in the trunk. He says the front hats are just a service hat. There isn't, there's a big exhaust in the back and that's it.

There's really nowhere to put anything. I'll just put this down. Keep coming from the back. A small spoiler with a very well made stretcher flap, here they have to make the crude platforms demand a bumper and there are some kits in which you can remove this bumper and according to the giant source of the firm, this no longer has the standard system . often the ones that are changed for these cars, but what a design statement, it's still a wow factor and in the price the same kind of prices were launched on the Ferrari 360 or more or less on the day what performance you get for your money.

Let's take it for a spin now, after years of getting in and out of the Ford GT. I thought I'd show you how not to hit your head on one of these curls. Rule number one is to always open the door as far as you can. So right now, any nighttime opening increases and then it's almost like you have to treat the car almost like it's a convertible because it kind of cuts off here, so you get into the car upright, that's where you get in and out, and then you have to remember again close the door open it open it all the way I don't think in your head I get out of the convertible and I get up like this and I come out in this space here I don't know why but you As with most cars, it comes out in angle and it shoots up if I do this and then you hit your head, so yeah, rule number one, treat it like a convertible, get out of it upright and then you won't.

Hit your head and you can always spot a long-time GT owner because of these scars on his head, up here, right, find a suitable steering lever, get angry, yeah, the other thing is that you are at peace and then you snag your hair when the roof is closed. So where the door closes with the roof, the pingas get very upset, we leave the keys inside, that's what that was all about, yes, the infamous moving immobilizer, one of these is something extraordinary, as you can see, it was just from a period when the immobilizers were probably at their Worst thing is really a combination of buttons and turning itself off before you know you're ready, about 10 seconds after you stop it, etc., but here I love the look, the Simplicity, just turn the fan down a bit, yes the heating controls are on this. manual iminium center console and iminium shift knob like a 6 speed puma Ricardo made the gearbox for this car and they are lovely shifts.

You will be able to see the evocative 4 GT simple 3-spoke steering wheel smaller than you would expect, obviously with power steering. and they reduced the air as much as they could. It's a very attractive steering wheel and the instruments the only thing I'm looking at is the tachometer marked in red at six and a half, it doesn't sound much but this is a long stroke engine and there's so much grunt that you could take on all comers and just use two now if they have RPM as you will see the engine temperature is up to temperature, the oil pressure gauge is lovely some involve etcetera and there is also a boost gauge that increases PSI. up to 15 pounds, I think it's a piece of bar something like that and the fuel level and a speedometer, finally there, a speed of 220 miles per hour.

Oh, it only takes a speed of 220 miles per hour, oh, this car because it's owned by Turner and it has seven bars. time something like that anyway we'll get going too with an easier clutch this is the first impression when you get into this car it's all a little easier than expected is what you expect heavyweight controls but no, it's an engine lazy velvety engine noise, gear chains and a beautiful clutch action, all bodes well for reaching better roads, it has one of the best gearshift to clucking ratios, a really strange and cool engine, too, All of this makes maneuvering and just having fun a piece of cake.

It's fantastic in a car like this you think you've been completely crazy and a little messy because the growth of the universe's output was very small but it was empty forever muscle 6,000 rpm there's a conversation that stops muscle on display remember you have six ratios to play so it's a pretty long kid: 850 I put it at 650 miles per hour, it has 1200 tires or clearly and 1200 praise. I'm only going to show you a party piece, but it's for GT, now it goes like this. I'm first. I'm just going to accelerate hard, one that I feel like had the feeling that what really happened there is enough, only the rear wheels come on when it comes on to boost like a supercharger, it starts up, it just explodes, it's not necessary to lower it. the clutch I can't do it again God here again it's a bit straight The highway happens around 4000 rpm or something I only had a certain amount of torque, it's quite true, I know this car and we're back at Evo, we wonder if it only had 550 horsepower, I've never actually seen anyone die, I don't want to see what the real power is, but it's a particularly healthy 550 horsepower.

Many of you know that I used to have a Zonda and the Zonda had similar power. There was a little more talk, but this. It weighs 200 kilos more than its quantities, but for GT it matches exactly the garni of the Zonda c12 s: 100 miles per hour, both can do it in seven point four seconds, five hundred and fifty miles per hour, the Zonda is a bitter that can be broken. 15 16 seconds and forgetting that we timed it at sixteen point nine seconds is any point nine of a second behind a Pagani Zonda. It's a very quick guilty day, the fact that it's kind of analog and it controls any driving feel when we made that car.

Finish off what everyone came back with what's like a 550 horsepower Lotus Elise. That's the weird thing about a Ford GT, they're all crazy and control-driven, but one thing about it is friendly because you feel connected to it: it's a powerfully impressive machine. no wonder there was such a rush to seize what when it first arrived now, please, great for them, its visibility, so it arbitrates a slight oblique T-joint and obviously I have to stick my nose out to being able to have a little love wrap it corners my British eating sense, it's pretty good, tires pretty tall, 316, sexual attire, 19 inches, but it's a torch, we say, it feels like it goes on forever.

I love the view out the rear window because what I can see is a supercharger pulley in the front it's a pretty evocative place the visibility in the rear isn't that bad don't you remember. I have a bit of a cursed view of the zapper car that has its own context, but this is pretty cool, I just think you sold eight pillars. and the things is that the aluminum construction makes it a little bit thicker, it's a bit like a pillar, but also for a crazy mid-engined car, very civilized here, obviously I'll go ahead, call the rest, I just love the shape where I barely use it, a few reps, I leave it here it's only 60 miles an hour, I mean third gear, Beatty rides with a team of friends, I really mean, I'm in fifth place, we're going 60 miles an hour, it's just under 3000 rpm, so second and third deal. from everything else, but I just can't taste the economy and the rope ends here, I feel like from here it doesn't, he is spinning, but there is no need to chase him, just talk, you don't have to use violations until you push him 3000 us look around you, you know? after that diabolo that was a little scary when doing the same type of corner, this feels like you just feel what the car is doing or you won't be any less of a passenger in this, it has immense skill, but it telegraphs thesignal to the driver feels mostly natural, no stress, really nice, best kid, summing up for GT, how do you sum up this gun well?

It is a true declaration of guilt. I love how it was designed exclusively for road use, never any charters, this race unlike the current GT, there was a race car that they converted into a road car is a little compromised in my

review

because of them. This is a mile-eating road car. It feels very natural on a road like this. A round trip nap from the south of France. I was never taught that the BMW m6 was boring and canonical, so a myth is out the window. It would be annoying and would happily do 20+ mpg cruising through France, but you don't want to do that, we want to drive it on your favorite roads.

I remember writing and that's fantastic, absolutely fantastic, a memorable trip, so incredibly usable. One of the big drawbacks I'm supposed to have with this car is that there's just nowhere to store anything, no door bins, no glove boxes, a little hot on the side. the tunnel and there's a little thing here but there's nowhere to put anything it needs a year so it's moreauto, but the real frustration is that you can't dream. I'm going on a big trip if there are two of you because you have nowhere to put anything. It's even worse than a Bugatti Veyron.

Behind, but then does. on your saw band it just feels in bursts of everything that feels because they just disappeared forever it's made by Ford it's made very well and the price is really memorable compared to that diabolo it's something different because it feels friendly or your side I wish the bad guys hadn't gone so crazy. There was a time when you could buy one of these for one before the t-150 was too cheap. Now they're in the 200s, I guess. true, because when we drove the Lucy was miles ahead of the Ferrari 360 in driver appeal, it had a lot more grunt and was made in limited numbers - although there are 4,000, it's much more limited than, say, a Ferrari 360 or a gay, do all those kinds of things exist?

That's actually what I was racing against, so it's been great to revisit it and I have to thank the Hairpin Company again for loading this car, but this is only 2,100 miles from new in 2005. They've got it. I think it's a 65-75k somewhere in there, so we've reached the absolute top, but this is a wonderful example of UK examples in a 28 only like new condition and I think it deserves its iconic status for its appearance, its dynamics and its shape. It feels like driving, so there you have it. I hope you enjoyed this video of the Ford GT.

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