9000 GT500s Will Be Produced

Amen to this. This might just keep the price a little above MSRP which would be very good indeed.

And the MSRP is?

Near $40k for a coupe and $45k for a convertible.

My asshole brother already has his. They gave it to him tuesday of last week.

What did he pay, and how the hell did he get so high up on the list?

Does he work for Ford and get one as an eval unit or something? I thought build didn't start till June

It's the internet... people just make things up.

Well that was my guess, but gave the benefit of doubt.

He paid $00,000 They GAVE him one.

Umm, I should mention that he's a Senior Engineer at Kelsey/Hayes/TRW/Whover they are today. He designs the braking systems. And he's the one that tests them at the track. He usually gets one of the preproduction models of watever he's working on for about 3-6 months; to take home.....

I hate my brother.

Still doesn't seem right. And no 'senior engineer' would get to keep the goodies when there are layers of management above who would take it. Sounds more like 'gets to use it for a little while'. I doubt Ford allows preproduction models to get out that way officially.

The two companies I've worked for that made consumer product, engineers did not get units to keep. And these are relatively cheap things compared to cars. (think one to four hundred dollars each retail) Now at one company it was acceptable to scavange through the scrap parts and build a unit for yourself, provided you could cobble together enough working parts. The other it's acceptable to take things home over the weekend, try em out, but they must be returned.

Thou shouldn't really covet. Bad for the soul and all that.

I never said he gets to keep it. Just for a while. He drives it to work, so it's there everyday. And he lied to me. He only gets to keep the GT500 for two weeks. He got to keep the 2006 for almost 4 months, though!

I think he should get that puppy to a dyno, pronto! :)

-- John C. '03 Cobra Convt.