Have you been fortunate enough in life to not only
have the means to buy a new Ford GT, but to be allocated a build slot, too?
Then you’ll have some choices to make. Even before you get into your choice of
wheels, brake-caliper colors, and interior treatments, you’ll have yo choose
which color you want yours to be painted.
There’s eight standard paint colors, another eight
colors of racing stripes to choose from, and contrasting finishes
for the ground effects. Then there’s the silver Competition Series, and the
Heritage Edition in three finishes. That’s nowhere near as extensive as the
configurations available on some other big-ticket supercars, but it’s plenty to
choose from.
There’s just one more exterior treatment available
that we haven’t seen before. It’s called the Victory scheme, and it draws its
inspiration from the competition-spec Ford GT LM GTE – like the ones that won
their class at Le Mans and Daytona. The livery flies the red, white, and blue
of the American flag with pride, even if the car is made in Canada. Dig the
vibe? There’s just one catch: you have to be a Ford employee to get it.
Now at this point you might be thinking that the
average assembly-line worker probably can’t afford the US$ 450k price of admission,
even with all the union benefits they’ve negotiated for. And you may be right.
But there are plenty of folks on the Ford payroll who can. Like Raj Nair,
president of Ford North America, who ordered up the one you see here.
Higher up the ladder, Bill Ford and Mark Fields got
two of the first examples off the line. We wouldn’t be surprised to see Jim
Hackett driving home in his own, either. And we’d wager there’s another dozen
or so senior executives at the automaker who could shell out for one too, especially
with an employee discount.
Even if every Ford employee who can get one does, in
this special colorway, that’d still leave the Victory livery as something of a
rarity. But then, with only 250 examples of the Ford GT to be made each year,
it won’t be as small a proportion as you might think.
