David Eckert’s Ford Mach Forty Wins 2012 GT Awards, Coming to Future Gran Turismo Game
The 2012 Gran Turismo Awards were held last night in Las Vegas, where Kazunori Yamauchi himself selected the David Eckert’s Ford Mach Forty as “Best in Show” from among the five category finalists.
The Mach Forty is an interesting and unusual car, which took three years to create.
As the name suggests, it is a combination of Mach 1 styling with a GT40 inspired power train. From the outset, it was designed to be a car that anyone could tell was a ’69 Mustang, but that would be nothing like any of the other 300,000 Mustangs that were built in that year.
A 1969 Mustang Mach 1 body was used to create the roof section, door frames, and doors. The tail section, quarter panels, front fender, hood, floor structures, and full peripheral frame are all new, hand formed steel pieces.
The engine is a 2006 Ford GT 5.4 liter dry sump unit, with a four liter Whipple supercharger, Mo TeC engine control unit, custom billet fuel rails, and dual Lamborghini throttle bodies. It also includes an “Adjustable Horsepower Dial” which allows you to adjust the car’s horsepower on the fly between 600-850hp.
Suspension is from a C6 Corvette with custom coil over shocks.
After Kazunori Yamauchi presented the award, Snoop Dogg/Lion came out on stage and performed many of his popular hits. Later, Kazunori also presented him with a custom wood-grain PlayStation 3 engraved with his name.
Congratulations to David Eckert and all of the GT Awards category finalists!
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November 15th, 2012 at 7:28 pm - #BuddhaRock
Kaz and Snoop… that picture will never get old.
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November 6th, 2012 at 3:44 pm - #Badasp5.0
So we get this car which is ok from some angles and odd from others but only a handful of Mustangs? WTH why cant we get some of the Road racing ‘stangs in a DLC instead of random VWs and more GTRs. Please add the SVO, ’93/’95 Cobra R, ’97 Saleen Le Mans RRR Mustang the ’11+ 5.0 GT and the ’13 GT500!!!!
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December 11th, 2012 at 3:45 pm - #Pete9320
Think a wish of good old mustangs must be killed before GT6.
I don’t want to be completly pessimistic ofc.
But you know, that’s probaly how it’s gonna be.
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November 6th, 2012 at 1:05 am - #SavageEvil
What the hell, that car is a hybrid of at GT40 and a Mach 1 Mustang, this I have to drive to see if it’s worth any salt. Lol. Unique is also part of GT, uniquely weird and sometimes useless but nice to tinker with.
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November 5th, 2012 at 11:39 pm - #RB26 2jz
Then Snoop drops his custom PS3 like its hooottt
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November 5th, 2012 at 10:30 am - #Brunet Paquet
Looks very cool. I’m eager to slam all the tune-ups on this babe and go race on the track with it!
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November 5th, 2012 at 9:02 am - #hardvibes
What can I say…..zZZzzzZZzzZz always the same boring cars.
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November 4th, 2012 at 10:28 pm - #TomBrady
I called it. he always picks the oldest car the last few years.
This thing is killed by it’s ugly hideous horrible rims, and crappy color. Honestly the only worse choice is the Bug.
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November 4th, 2012 at 9:21 pm - #gpjeff
Great concept, and very cool car!
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November 4th, 2012 at 3:45 pm - #NascarManiaco99
The RTR interested me more than this one, but not bad.
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November 4th, 2012 at 1:22 pm - #cgg
I honestly thought that it was going to be the Scion that won, just to add to the list of cars that are all the same.
Just a Question, how difficult is it to design a car like this? I know it’s incredibly difficult to make this sort of thing, but designing? I’m not sure. It’s a very nice car though, and I’m pleased that it beat the other Mustang, the Scion, but I wouldn’t have minded the Beetle.
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November 4th, 2012 at 11:37 am - #JAHHAJ
I want Snoops PS3 it looks epic!
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November 4th, 2012 at 10:11 am - #Chiochan
looks smokey in there during Snoop’s performance!
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November 4th, 2012 at 10:09 am - #MadmuppGT
I’m just glad Kaz gave snoop a PS3 with Snoop Dogg on it,
Snoop lion is just daft, no one encourage him haha
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November 4th, 2012 at 9:21 am - #Deko Wolf-GTPT
…meh
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November 4th, 2012 at 8:09 am - #Thenextbob
No WAY!Again a grandpa is coming to GT5?Why don’t we get the actual mustang?We need it more than a 1969 buddy !
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November 4th, 2012 at 7:34 am - #Conza
A Ford GT with 850 BHP out of the box, they could’ve done much worse. I would prefer more cars, but as long as this one’s free, I don’t see the problem here, other than the usual things wrong with PD
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November 4th, 2012 at 6:24 am - #forzaturismo
Forza Horizon ll get 6 super cars,,,,, and GT ll get the Ford March Forty…find the mistake…..
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November 4th, 2012 at 9:53 am - #Pit Crew
The mistake is you posting that comment in the GT5 thread.
You’ll get 6 Supercars in Forza Horizon, but you wont use them much because obviously you will be paying attention to whats in GT6.
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November 4th, 2012 at 9:55 am - #MadmuppGT
GT gets the respect of actual car modifiers and manufacturers, I appear to be the only one who loves the look of this car, classic looks with modern power… whats no to like, plus its a one off
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November 4th, 2012 at 4:35 am - #Hentis
I see the cochophony of usual malcontents are complaining yet again.
The choice of car is a good one. It’s not only the aesthetics of the car the Tamauchi San looks at its also the story surrounding the car. The sarcasm is really becoming a joke now just because some of you can’t get what you wan or don’t like what you see. -
November 4th, 2012 at 1:46 am - #forzaturismo
the march forty took 3 years to create,,,, PD ll take 6 years to modelize it ;)
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I think it looks like a Mustang had sex with a Challenger. It’s great.