2006 Ford GT coming to Canada
 

Ford of Canada has annouced yesterday that the Ford GT will be available in Canada.
The timing is "later in the year" and allocation would be "a maximum of 1 per dealer".

Base price will be $184,995 plus Freight ($2,500 on an enclosed trailer) and options.

They are estimating around 200 for all Canada

Can't wait!

That's the Canadian price?

That it CAN price, hopefully they've worked out all the recall bugs it has been plagued with. Voted #1 desirable car to buy if had the $$$$, read that in R&T

I wonder how many are already spoken for? That would be a nice toy

Rumour has it that there was a nice new Ford GT cruising down the 401 and up the 404. I wish I was there to see it. I hear they haul ass and are very comfortable with one hand on the wheel doing well over the legally posted limit.
SS

Me too. When do they go on sale?

No clue, its times like this I wish I could win the lottery. Theres nothing more I want in this world than the Ford GT, and maybe a Ferrari F40 as a daily driver :biggrin:
SS

At that price I can only take 4.

As I understand, all of them were spoken for the day the announcement was made. :rolleyes:

Ford has said 100 will be built in December/January time frame and 100 will be built in the July/August '06 time frame.

Ford has not told the dealers how they will be distributed or which dealers will get them. There are approximately 500 dealers in Canada, many of them very small - 50 cars per year. They just said a maximum of one per dealership.

As with us, I am sure every dealer has a list of interested buyers.

I think if the rumors are true abuot the 401 car it may have looked like this[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...mjuly05039.jpg[/IMG]
or this[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...mjuly05042.jpg[/IMG]
WOW thats one lucky dude :LOL: :LOL: :laughhard :shakeit:

Yep, whoever was driving that thing is definitely one lucky dude thats going to get slapped for not bringing it out for me to look at in person :laughhard Teasing me and all, that is one mean individual! I hope I find him someday :biggrin:
SS

I hear he's a handsome devil :laughhard :laughhard

That thing has a cage in it

Don't they all have those bars across there?

Ford GT Production Update
 

We (at Whiteoak) received notice that we will be getting one Ford GT.

The first 100 (including ours) will be built in late March and early April. Ford estimates daily production of 7 (per day, not per hour).

We had to fax in the order form with the top three choices of colour. The only options are the Lemans stripes at $6,000 and the Heritage package (Lt blue and Orange Gulf team colours) at $16,000!
$200,000 and they don't even guarantee the colour!

We sold ours to a customer in Mississauga for list price. Maybe we could have gotten more but this guy really wants one. He will be getting rid of a Viper to make room in his garage.

The second 100 will be built starting September 1. Apparantly there are changes in safety requirements that make it illegal to sell Ford GTs built after Sept. 1 in the U.S., but those changes do not take effect in Canada until a year later. Kind of ironic since it was the crash impact requirements that kept the GT out of Canada until now.
Someone in Canada will get the last GT built - second last if Ford keeps the last.

Who ever buys one, make sure you take pics and post them here :tup

Living where I live I have seen a few cruising the streets. Not now of coarse but this past summer. :tup

Look at the plates that boy gets paid to drive that car.

And there will be none next year, so these will be especially valuable.

Ford GT's being shipped today
 

Ford GT's will start arriving at dealerships in the GTA this afternoon (March 20) or tomorrow morning.

Ours (Whiteoak) will be a Heritage Edition (Light Blue with Orange accents - The Gulf Car) that is sold, but the new owner doesn't want to take it until the threat of snow is gone. So it will be "stored" in our showroom till he wants to take it.

Sorry, no test drives!
But all are welcome to come for a look.

We will probably see the car again on June 28 at Mustangs at Mosport!

let us know when it arrives :tup

We want pics. Go for a drive biz to TO? :biggrin:

Sounds like he's talking about the same colour GT as the one from the auto show: http://photobucket.com/albums/f137/c...006CIAS070.jpg

Eastway has a blue w/white stripes coming..I helped sell it to a guy off the GTAMC :biggrin:

I will let you know once it arrives...

Yonge-Steeles is supposed to be getting 4 of them but I think that's not until the second run? I think Bill said September.

Can I bribe you with a ride in the Cobra for a testdrive? :LOL:

:tup :tup :tup

Some good news. Finally :tup

I dont think any dealer can get more then 1 Ford GT, Eastway owns 3 Dealerships so they have 1 coming to each of their other locations as well, I could be wrong but will check today, pretty sure its 1 GT per high volume dealership.
Also this is the last year for the GT. There are no plans for GT's to be made next year :(

Awesome! :tup

No dealer is getting more than one.

Overall, Rai Sahi will be getting four because he owns four dealerships:
Yonge-Steeles, Eastcourt, Freeway and Bay.

But Yonge-Steeles will only be getting one.

Then that was probably it. The 4 dealerships.. dunno. It's just what I recall.

Not sure if you know about the Windsor area dealerships but any idea if any of them will be getting one? I'm going to assume Rose City Ford will probably be getting one...

I would bet Rose City is getting one... :tup

I talked to my dealer today and as I thought 1 per dealership....Eastways will be here either this week or next. Each dealership will get a call 24 hrs before it drops to make arrangements for the car, no GT's will be dropped when the dealerships are closed and no one can receive the car.

Ford GT has arrived
 

Our Ford GT showed up this afternoon on an enclosed trailer with five others. $1.2 Million cargo!

What an awesome car!!!

The Heritage does look great, real unique. It fits the car.

Off the trailer, the new owner came by and drove it once around the lot then into the showroom.
Perma-Smile :)

I will try to get some pictures downloaded a little later.

Great news :tup

We have one coming to Fines, but in the September run. Tungsten grey, no stripes. Sold of course. :)


cheers
Ed N.

just a sort of off topic question...
do the dealerships need to send a mechanic for any "special" training?
when my dad's boss got his SRT-10 ram, he was the first guy to have the new SRT and he has one mechanic that is basically assigned to him (and all the SRT's that go through the dealership, which arn't many) they had to send him somewhere to get specially trained on the V-10... just wondering if they have the same program for Ford with their highest end vehicle??

love the car btw... :tup

Look what arrived last nite at Eastway (St Thomas Ford)

I'll get more pictures today...

http://www.mustangmods.com/ims/u/227/1329/32929.jpg
http://www.mustangmods.com/ims/u/227/1329/32928.jpg

I love the colour. What's that shade of blue called? (It is blue, right? My eyes aren't deceiving me?)

I just saw a red with white stripes one on EC Row going the other way. Gave him the :tup