[Historybuff]

I guess I was looking at the Ford GT ('05-'06) from the Baby Boomer viewpoint but now that I've seen who owns them--fat cats who rarely take them out--I realize they built The Amazing Disappearing Car in that they are seen far less than, say Ferrari Daytonas of which roughly 1200 were made.
So I guess what they need is something exotic looking with a high performance powerplant , rear wheel drive, that's affordable by the young, who they can hook into buying Fords for decades. Maybe I could accept a V6 but a four, even turbocharged, would seem so puny compared to a V8. (What about a mini-V8, maybe 4 liter?). And I wouldn't like it to be like the last Toyota MR2 which was mid-engined but too small and delicate.

At any rate, once Ford starts to coin money with a bread and butter car that millions buy, and make a profit I'd like to see them do a high performance mid-engined car, maybe with GT40 design elements (to start with they could buy one example of a smaller mid-engined chassis and rebody it with the '05 body panels to see how it looks shrunken down).

PS It's not all bad that the '05-'06 Ford GTs didn't sell that much because now, because of their rarity and the fact they are 200-mph plus cars, they seem to be going up in price (especially the Gulf liveried ones) so in a way Ford succeeded in creating a "modern" collector car kind of like a Cobra for the 2000s, though so far they are about 1/5th the price of a real CSX Sixties Cobra.