Interesting news.

Ford recalls GTs due to potential cracking in suspension control arm

DETROIT -- Ford Motor Co. is recalling its GT supercar, saying the vehicle is unsafe to drive because of potential cracking in a suspension control arm.

Ford has notified dealerships of the GT recall. The recall affects the 448 GTs produced this year. Of those, 289 have been shipped to dealerships, and 106 are in customers' hands.

Ford says no accidents or injuries have been reported. Engineers discovered the cracked control arm in one GT during a routine field inspection.

It may be weeks before the cars are back on the road. A casting problem caused the flaw, a Ford spokeswoman said.

Ford is developing a new casting procedure and will then produce new control arms.

The base price of a GT is $143,845, including a $1,250 destination charge and a $2,600 gas-guzzler tax.

Source: AutoWeek

 

Surprise

 

Don't forget the $100k premium line item from all of the Ford Dealerships that are taking advantage of the current market.

I'm hoping that the Ford GT will depreciate the way that I'm hoping that the CGT will depreciate. I won't mind picking one up a couple of years old.

 

Now if it were just a regular stang, Ford wouldn't have said **** about it. They know the majority of people who buy the GTs can afford to take swift appropriate action against them if this had caused an accident. Remember the Pinto? They knew about the design flaw but didn't do **** until they were forced to. It took a lot of dead people for something to happen. The same people who couldn't afford good lawyers and such to draw up a class action case.

 

What do you expect...it's a Ford.

 

"Ford is developing a new casting procedure and will then produce new control arms."


Is your car off the road for weeks or months?

Do they give you a Focus loaner?

The best part is when they get the new part and the Taurus partschanger gets to work on your car. You may be better off with the old part...

 

I'm with Dock on this one, this is not very surprising coming from Ford.

Ummm, no. Just like Porsche has a select few factory-trained C-GT mechanics, Ford also has a few factory-trained techs for the GT.

 

FORD = Found On Road Dead

 

First it was the cyllinder heads, now the control arm. There is no way this is just a continuation in modern updates of the GT-40. It is a whole new car that looks like the gt-40, is a first model run year, and is being made by anything BUT a supercar manufacturer. What a joke it was to talk to the hot shot Ford rep at the Charlotte auto show and tell me how the $350 k price tag would not depreciate despite the large projected build # and the rumor of quality issues. Doubly ironic is the fact that the car at the show was a prototype and not the real car and this was less than one month ago!

 

Said this very thing to my wife just last night when I saw one on TV.

 

They are sitting on a Ford GT, and asking $350.000 !!!!
They wont ever look at offers under $250.000! What a joke!

 

The Ford GT is an awsome machine, this is a minor glitch. Remember, Porsche is not without it's own problems; RMS, PCCB, and Lord knows what on the CGT.
Earlier this yr I almost bought one for 167K, should've pulled the trigger. I just couldn't see paying anything over sticker, then they said the delivery would be delayed 6-8mo bc of the cylinder head problem, at that point I bailed and spent the cash on my house instead.
BTW, it's First On Race Day, Ford has a greater racing tradition with more victories than any import manufacturer, including porsche. The GT would spank most F cars and high end P cars without much trouble. Let's not get too arrogant about our Porsches guys. Off my soapbox.

 

Maybe...when it's not in the shop.

 

I think I'd rather have my CGT worked on by a tech who's used to servicing 911's, Boxsters, etc and in a facility that's designed for those types of cars than by a partschanger for Tauruses and Escorts who's never handled a high-end car and can't wait for the test drive...

It looks like they'll be getting lots of experience on the GT's fairly quickly.

You buy one of these and you're the beta tester.

 

That's ok, I know several dealers who turned down $700K+ CGT offers and of one that ended up taking MSRP when they woke up. The same dealer is turning down $750k offers on their SLR and I suspect they're in for a similar awakening.