GTP Cool Wall: 2004-2006 Ford GT

[skynyrd]

Instant sub-zero knee-jerk reaction.

Looking at the picture, still sub zero.

Looking at the stats, still sub zero.

The fact that I've actually seen two of these on the road in person and know how well that picture and what people say transfers to real life: sub freaking zero.

Best looking supercar in over a decade! I don't vote sub zero often, but this one definitely deserves it, especially as supercars go.

 

[MoLiEG]

It's Subzero for me, but a low one...

Saw one 2 years ago on a Mustang meeting near home... but I didn't WOW like I do with other cars...

 

[mustang fanatic]

SUB-ZERO. How could you not love this car?

 

[CarBastard]

I can't. It's the everyday supercar - it's not even that ostentatious, gaudy or loud.

But it's still a supercar and they are all Seriously Uncool.

I entirely agree with you. I believe all supercars are uncool, but the Ford GT is odd in not being an ostentatious and vulgar display of wealth, like the stereotypical red Ferrari or a chrome-wrapped Lamborghini. It can definitely be called an everyday supercar, definitely one of the classiest and most interesting examples of the breed and far from being the less competent. And still, it's a supercar, and supercars are Seriously Uncool.

Buuuuuuut, as @niky pointed out quite politely: Sod it. Still Sub-Zero

 

[Northstar]

Uncool.

I put this car in the same category as the New Beetle, 500 and Mini Cooper as they all are supposed to be revivals of older models but apart from some visual cues they really have little in common with the cars they are supposed to be based on. In the case of the GT, they may not have strayed as far as the others but the original was a race car and the modern GT only raced as non-factory supported teams. Now, if Ford had a factory GT team and used the street version as a sort of homologation special it would easily boost it to sub-zero.

 

[mustang fanatic]

This car is uncool, because it's not an original Gt40.

 

[Dennisch]

I kinda like how it looks but it all seems a bit, I don't know, off?

It just doesn't do enough for me. Meh.

Also, another Ford?

 

[Wiegert]

Not sub-zero - it's not the original - but a hefty cool.

On "bloody hell, it's a Ford GT" factor alone, it gets a cool.

The GT40 is the main reason why I won't put this any higher than cool. It may be a reproduction of an old design with added creature comforts that's better suited for road use, but it would still elicit a "Wow" if I saw one.

I kinda like how it looks but it all seems a bit, I don't know, off?

Getting rid of the stripes helps. For me anyway.

 

[Joey D]

Cool. Put a Gulf livery on it and it could be sub-zero.

 

[homeforsummer]

SUB-ZERO. How could you not love this car?

This car is uncool, because it's not an original Gt40.

So... which one of these is your actual opinion?

Or is the second just a really bad attempt at sarcasm?

 

[mustang fanatic]

So... which one of these is your actual opinion?

Or is the second just a really bad attempt at sarcasm?

I said the second thing because people think this car is uncool because it's not a GT40. It's kind of an invalid reason IMO.

The first one is my real opinion.

 

[Roger the Horse]

I don't get how supercar = seriously uncool.

As @Famine has said before, driving a supercar makes people want to slash your tyres. Ostentatious pubic displays of wealth tend to do that. (Although not as much as fitting a 2000W subwoofer in the back of a Citroen Saxo.)

Also, in the GTs case, it's aping the style of something else.

 

[Crash]

One of the few unpretentious super cars. Not the original GT40, but still a very good homage. Sub zero.

 

[Wolfe]

A mild Cool from me. It looks good -- faithful to a classic, without being dorky or an excessively-smoothed-over blob -- and it represents Ford actually making an effort during an era when it seemed they'd rather not bother. Even though I've never been a fan of this car, the success of that effort is undeniable.

I was tempted to go Meh or lower because of all of the "OMG SUBZERO JUST BECAUSE" posts, but I can't deny that I might rate this as the coolest Ford.

 

[Famine]

pubic displays of wealth

Vajazzle?

 

[XS]

The same people week after week vote uncool or seriously uncool, (although I completely understand Famine's logic so there's no mystery there), it makes you wonder just what they consider cool, if anything.
Anyway, subzero for me. Nearly as good as the original, won many races, and had a top class LeMans finish from a private team.

 

[Tornado]

The main impressive thing that I've always found about this is that they only built it in response to huge public acclaim towards a concept, based on a bunch of stuff they mostly already had sitting around, but unlike every single other example of that happening (New Beetle excepting, I guess) this one actually managed to be a cohesive and acclaimed vehicle.

it makes you wonder just what they consider cool,

Refrigerators.

 

[JMoney]

I love the engine, and I love Ford. But when they designed this car, they were lazy. It didn't need to look exactly like the late 60's Le Mans car. That takes it from a SZ to a cool.

The GT90 would have been Sub-Zero, had it been produced.

I really don't understand why, to some people, supercars are seriously uncool. Is it jealosy? The knowledge you probably won't own one? Or communism?

 

[mustang fanatic]

I love the engine, and I love Ford. But when they designed this car, they were lazy. It didn't need to look exactly like the late 60's Le Mans car. That takes it from a SZ to a cool.

The GT90 would have been Sub-Zero, had it been produced.

I think it was meant to look exactly like the GT40.

 

[Wolfe]

The GT90 would have been Sub-Zero, had it been produced.

And now the menu song from Need for Speed II SE plays in my head.

I really don't understand why, to some people, supercars are seriously uncool. Is it jealosy? The knowledge you probably won't own one? Or communism?

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[Slash]

Dat sound though

 

[Gotbeefboy564]

It's cool, filmed my neighbors one last year.

Video lagged because I had to plug in my portable charger.

 

[niky]

I really don't understand why, to some people, supercars are seriously uncool. Is it jealosy? The knowledge you probably won't own one? Or communism?

It's because a supercar often isn't a car. It's an ostentatious display of wealth, an overachieving, overpowered, over-designed (mostly Lamborghinis, though) and excessively complicated machine that is bought for ridiculous sums of money for the sole purpose of showing other people that you have ridiculous sums of money.

You could argue: "Yes, but the people who buy these cars buy them because they're ridiculously fast." To which the correct response is: "You could buy something faster, more reliable and more capable by just walking down to the nearest Nissan/Chevrolet dealership and buying a GT-R/Corvette/etcetera." Much like a ten-thousand dollar watch that doesn't tell time as well as a cheap Seiko Quartz, or gaudy, neon-colored, limited edition "basketball shoes" that don't work even half-as-well as a cheap pair of off-the-shelf sneaks.

Hence, supercars are seriously uncool. Except when they're not.

 

[TheCracker]

I really don't understand why, to some people, supercars are seriously uncool. Is it jealosy? The knowledge you probably won't own one? Or communism?

Was out today. Sat outside a sandwich shop waiting for my misses to decide on what filling she wanted in her pannini. A busy shopping street on a sunny Saturday afternoon. Traffic was slow moving. Noticed a 997 coming towards me. Got closer, was a 997 Turbo S. Not the superist supercar, but still pretty flash on a street where flash cars are common place. The lights change on the crossing opposite and the 911 stops. A handful of people cross before the lights change back to green. Mr Turbo S floors it for three or four seconds before catching back up to the rest of the traffic, causing everyone to stop and stare. That's why people think that people who drive supercars are knobs. Five miles away there's a national park with some great, quiet, challenging roads. It's not unusual to come across caterhams, westfields, Elises etc, or hot hatches, unmodified imprezas or evos. People out enjoying their cars in the manner they were generally designed for. But where are the ferraris, lambs, astons gtr's? They're slowly driving up and down a busy shopping street.

 

[Joey D]

Traffic was slow moving. Noticed a 997 coming towards me. Got closer, was a 997 Turbo S.

The real question here is, was the 997 driver a red-commie bastard?

 

[Slash]

 

[Roger the Horse]

If we're talking about coolness, communism has historically shown to be a far more effective boost to coolness than capitalism. I mean, go to any air museum and the only planes anyone actually cares about are the 50s MiGs, let's be honest.

 

[Tornado]

That's because its rare to see one that isn't rotting in the hangar in some hellhole East Asian dictatorship where they invariably all ended up.

 

[RandomCarGuy17]

Those are not planes I look at when at an air museum, just saying.

Also, I left my vote at cool.
It's a beautifully styled car and it has stripes.

 

[Bc4]

Sooo you guys who think supercars are s. uncool would never want to own one?