How To Spec My Ford GT
The Experience of Choosing Your Dream Ford GT
When your order window opens, which is about nine months before your car arrives, you can expect to receive a box with various samples. These samples include different carbons, leathers, options, and colors for the paint job. The idea behind this process is to allow potential buyers to decide on the exact specifications of their Ford GT beforehand. When you finally receive your car, you'll also get a serial plaque that can be stuck back into the box as a reminder of your choices.
Customization Options
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But there are other things you can customize with your Ford GT beyond the paint job and interior materials. For instance, you can opt for custom harnesses in bright colors or those that match your chosen seats or exterior design elements. Additionally, the car comes equipped with shift lights on the steering wheel that flash a sequence of lights when starting the engine. These lights can be seen flashing as the door is opened, and they provide an added layer of functionality to the overall driving experience.
A Day in the Life with the Ford GT
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I recently spent some time with the Ford GT, and I was blown away by its performance and handling. The car accelerates quickly and handles aggressively, making it a thrill to drive on both straight roads and twisty tracks. One of the standout features of the Ford GT is its unique design elements, including its distinctive stripes that run along the sides of the car.
Choosing Your Dream Ford GT
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As I sat in the car, I began to think about how I would spec my own Ford GT. I decided on a satin carbon fiber exterior with stripes, which seemed like a fitting choice given the car's sporty design. The question then became what colors to choose for the stripes and wheels. I settled on two colors that complemented each other well and changed their appearance depending on the body color of the car itself.
Inside the Ford GT
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One of my favorite features of the Ford GT is its interior design, which boasts a range of materials and colors to suit different tastes. As I explored the car's interior, I was struck by its comfort and refinement, making it a joy to drive both on and off the track. The car also features a number of advanced technologies, including an infotainment system that provides detailed information about the vehicle's performance.
The Waiting Game
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One of the downsides of ordering a custom Ford GT is the lengthy wait time before delivery. With production schedules likely to be busy, it may take several months – if not years – for your car to arrive. However, with the knowledge that you're getting a truly unique and high-performance vehicle, the wait time becomes more manageable.
Conclusion
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Driving a Ford GT was an unforgettable experience, and I'm excited to put my own unique specifications on this incredible machine. Whether you're a seasoned car enthusiast or just starting out, the Ford GT is certainly worth considering. Be sure to check out my full video for more information about the car's features and performance, as well as some expert advice on how to customize your dream ride.
Let Me Know Your Thoughts!
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As I wrap up this article, I want to hear from you – my fellow car enthusiasts! What would you do with a Ford GT? Would you stick to the standard specifications or try something entirely new? Do you have any favorite color combinations or design elements that you think would look great on the car? Share your thoughts in the comments below, and let's get the conversation started.
"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhi guys i'm smee and today i would like to talk to you about the spec of my future car my future ford gt so the car behind me is the one that i have just been driving and if you haven't already seen my full in-depth video with the car and my first ever driving it i'd recommend checking out that video it was an awful lot of fun it's been an amazing day because i'm up in scotland in the can gorms surrounded by amazing roads and basically it's been a pretty awesome time but for today i want to run a little bit over some of the options that you can have on the ford gt and get some input from you guys so there's a cutie down below as well you can head over and let me know what you think but i want to talk a bit about it and kind of unsurprisingly ford sent this car up for me to drive today in blue in performance blue the launch color i think they knew i probably liked blue but i don't necessarily think blue is the right color for me but let's have a little look around it let's have a look about some of the options on this car itself and talk basically a bit about it now all ford gt is a left-hand drive it's left-hand drive it's set up that way with the carbon tub so mine will be left-hand drive but from a basic point of view you've got colors you've got carbon you've got wheels and you've got the interior as well that we can have a look at so like i said this color is performance blue there are other options you can have liquid red which is a really nice deep sort of triple layer red you can have a nice bright yellow you could have black grey silver white and then you can add stripes to it as well so this car is obviously stripe free but you can have sort of thin stripes or thick stripes running the full length of the car from the wing up through the back over the roof and down through the bonnet either the thin stripes on the central section or the thicker stripe sort of overlapping into the vents so then that sort of opens up a whole world of opportunity like a yellow car with black stripes or a red car with silver stripes or a black car with orange stripes as jay leno's done or i don't know colors colors colors so that's basically the place to start i mean what do you think what should it be i'm leaning towards either red or yellow i think i'm not so much a greyscale fan so i'm not going to go black silver or white that's not really me is blue kind of overdone is it too cliched for my cars i'm not entirely sure and then when we've chosen the color we've got to pick the stripes on it so this is this is really hard this you can you can actually have paint uh to sample as well you can paint the car in your own color with literally any options available but then you can't have stripes you can only have stripes in the sort of set configurations because when companies do this kind of paint over paint they have to make sure it sort of works and you don't get chemical problems it's actually quite complicated as i've been learning then when you've chosen the color you can come around to the wheels now there is actually a different system if you have these wheels the kind of regular uh five twin spokes or if you have the full carbon wheels now the full carbon wheels are really expensive but they have a different hub mounting system so basically they're not interchangeable if you have carbon wheels you reduce the unsprung mass obviously which gives you a slightly better driving experience at great expense but also with the risk that if you ever curbed it the wheel is defunct you can sort of repair them but there's a big risk you can't repair them in the same way you can a normal wheel so if you're using a car on a road trip you basically need a new wheel which might be impossible to find literally in the middle of nowhere so that's something to think about and i quite like this design honestly i really like it but then carbon is cool we'll see then the carbon fiber around the car so you've got on this car the satin carbon which is obviously the splitter around the front these sort of scoops i guess you could call them around to the sides the whole lower side skirt option or area that has this sort of intake through here from the front where you can see through which i pointed out in my main video which is really cool all the way back and then the diffuser section as well so around the apron and then the diffuser down at the bottom so you can have that either painted black as standard or with the satin carbon or with the gloss carbon now my view on this is if you have a bright colored car the satin carbon is really cool i'm a big fan of the satin carbon finish on the exterior as well because i mean it doesn't get as dirty as well because dirt is kind of satin gray in effect so you don't see it as much on those lower sections of the car which i think is cool so satin carbon is probably the choice for me on the exterior now there's not really that much else outside that you can actually spec so let's open up the doors and jump in here which you do by pressing in there and have a little look at the interior so in here you've got lots of satin carbon again more reason for the satin carbon on the outside to match up with what's in here you have things like your movable pedal box the fixed seat so the seat base is completely solidly fixed in here um i didn't actually mention in my full video by the way there's a little storage bucket here which you press to open um not the biggest space in the world but there we go that was one cool little thing i didn't mention before but this car has the blue alcantara so you have a couple of different trims that you can have with mixtures of leather and alcantara and you should really head over to the configurator to have a look at all of these but i'm a big fan of alcantara the thing is the color you go for in here depends a lot on the exterior color so this dark blue works really nicely against the blue outside you also get that upper piece there and all the way around the dash as well around the top of the dash in the alcantara um i think that works really well but then you know depends what you want here what do you want there how do you want it we've got gloss carbon up here these seats are made by sparkle as well by the way i saw the manufacturing process when i was down at sparco for that which is pretty cool um so see color choices that's going to go with what's on the outside the safest is always to go black black leather black alcantara a nice sort of mix of the two because that will go with any exterior color and it works with wrapping in the future or any sort of things one wants to do that are crazy beyond that now coming around to the back one other thing titanium exhaust so i think this car has the standard exhaust system which doesn't sound bad by any means by any stretch of the imagination 3.5 liter twin turbocharged ecoboost v6 straight out the back there out the exhaust system but you do have the option of a titanium exhaust if one can afford it it's quite an expensive option on the car in fact it's actually quite um an expensive car to spec up to be completely honest but that's half the fun so you can also change your brake calipers you can paint the calipers in a series of different options depending how you want that to be done as well so there are lots of choices and well like i said i kind of want to do this cutie to get you guys some input you know how should we spec this ford gt i'm lucky enough that ford have secured me the allocation i applied for the car and obviously part of that was that i promised i would share the story adventure and journey of my car with you guys as i have been doing with these videos so having a good look at it at geneva going up the hill with harry tinkle at goodwood then today having my first drive in it so there's a lot more to come obviously in this process and i'm looking forward to getting like spec box so when you're when your order window opens which is about nine months before your car arrives they send you this box you might have seen it with a number of different samples the different carbons the different leathers the different options the different colors um the paint sort of samples so you can basically decide from that how you want your car to look and then when you get your car you get a serial plaque with it that you can also stick back on your box and keep sort of in connection with the car with your choices up at the very top which is kind of neat as well but let's just jump in here quickly because there are also other things you can customize that you can have custom harnesses you can have a nice bright color harness or harnesses that match um with the choice one goes for uh for the seats or the exterior all the stripes i like how when you press the break it wakes it up um it brings up the gt logo on the screen but let's just start this for a moment into life one thing i was going to show there that i didn't was the shift lights on the steering wheel so if i just turn this off again for a second and then immediately turn it back on look at the shift lights as you start it they give you that little light sequence so they sort of flash across and back which is quite neat um letting me know that the door is open that is not a problem right now and um yeah it all uh works pretty neatly it's a lot more comfortable than you might think in this car by the way um it's awesome actually and i would thoroughly recommend checking out my full video because i talked a lot more basically about everything showing you through the inside all around the outside but i'm very keen to get your thoughts as to how i should spec it how my car should be whether it should be i guess something that sort of sits in should i look at it more like uh kind of investment do it in launch spec use it i'm obviously gonna use my card don't get me wrong on that but long term history or should i try and make up something completely unique should i go paint to sample and create my own color should i do it in color that i've done before like the purple of my mclaren or the light blue of my old 675lt coupe i don't know i don't know there's so many options i have had literally the most amazing day today by the way driving this car like you would not believe and i'm still a little bit lost for words about it all um it's just been truly epic truly truly epic but i've got to start thinking and there's no better time to think about what spec you'd like than when you're actually sat in the car itself and taking a look at it so i've set my mind during the time i've been filming this video that satin carbon fiber is the way to go so it's definitely going to have satin carbon fiber exterior parts i would like it to have stripes i think the ford gt distinctly had stripes so i need to come up with two colors that go nicely with stripes and then probably these wheels but in a color that depends on the body so you can have them black silver gray i guess or you could change them afterwards to anything you'd like so the color of the wheels is going to be dictated by the body color of the car itself but i think there's just so many ridiculously cool details about this car look at those headlights just look at those headlights it's just crazy and this is sitting in sport mode so it goes five centimeters lower you can obviously have the weighing up or down depending how you want it but it's like it's just i don't know a spaceship kind of thing you look through here and it's just bizarre it's just like straight through straight out anyway i am rambling on plenty much but do go and click over to cutie let me know your thoughts guys i'd love some feedback and some input from you guys about how i should spec the ford gt and uh yeah that will kind of be the start i guess of my order process although i'm not gonna receive the car to be completely honest with you until late half of 2019. so i've got about two and a bit years to wait frustratingly long wait but i'm sure the car is going to be worth it now that i've driven it actually i know it's going to be worth it so i'm definitely getting it let's not have the discussion about whether i'll whether i'll buy the car or not um for now so yes amazing what a day what a drive what an awesome car what a brilliant experience but i'll wrap this one up for there thank you ever so much as always for watching guys do let me know your thoughts and i'll catch up with you again very soon cheers youhi guys i'm smee and today i would like to talk to you about the spec of my future car my future ford gt so the car behind me is the one that i have just been driving and if you haven't already seen my full in-depth video with the car and my first ever driving it i'd recommend checking out that video it was an awful lot of fun it's been an amazing day because i'm up in scotland in the can gorms surrounded by amazing roads and basically it's been a pretty awesome time but for today i want to run a little bit over some of the options that you can have on the ford gt and get some input from you guys so there's a cutie down below as well you can head over and let me know what you think but i want to talk a bit about it and kind of unsurprisingly ford sent this car up for me to drive today in blue in performance blue the launch color i think they knew i probably liked blue but i don't necessarily think blue is the right color for me but let's have a little look around it let's have a look about some of the options on this car itself and talk basically a bit about it now all ford gt is a left-hand drive it's left-hand drive it's set up that way with the carbon tub so mine will be left-hand drive but from a basic point of view you've got colors you've got carbon you've got wheels and you've got the interior as well that we can have a look at so like i said this color is performance blue there are other options you can have liquid red which is a really nice deep sort of triple layer red you can have a nice bright yellow you could have black grey silver white and then you can add stripes to it as well so this car is obviously stripe free but you can have sort of thin stripes or thick stripes running the full length of the car from the wing up through the back over the roof and down through the bonnet either the thin stripes on the central section or the thicker stripe sort of overlapping into the vents so then that sort of opens up a whole world of opportunity like a yellow car with black stripes or a red car with silver stripes or a black car with orange stripes as jay leno's done or i don't know colors colors colors so that's basically the place to start i mean what do you think what should it be i'm leaning towards either red or yellow i think i'm not so much a greyscale fan so i'm not going to go black silver or white that's not really me is blue kind of overdone is it too cliched for my cars i'm not entirely sure and then when we've chosen the color we've got to pick the stripes on it so this is this is really hard this you can you can actually have paint uh to sample as well you can paint the car in your own color with literally any options available but then you can't have stripes you can only have stripes in the sort of set configurations because when companies do this kind of paint over paint they have to make sure it sort of works and you don't get chemical problems it's actually quite complicated as i've been learning then when you've chosen the color you can come around to the wheels now there is actually a different system if you have these wheels the kind of regular uh five twin spokes or if you have the full carbon wheels now the full carbon wheels are really expensive but they have a different hub mounting system so basically they're not interchangeable if you have carbon wheels you reduce the unsprung mass obviously which gives you a slightly better driving experience at great expense but also with the risk that if you ever curbed it the wheel is defunct you can sort of repair them but there's a big risk you can't repair them in the same way you can a normal wheel so if you're using a car on a road trip you basically need a new wheel which might be impossible to find literally in the middle of nowhere so that's something to think about and i quite like this design honestly i really like it but then carbon is cool we'll see then the carbon fiber around the car so you've got on this car the satin carbon which is obviously the splitter around the front these sort of scoops i guess you could call them around to the sides the whole lower side skirt option or area that has this sort of intake through here from the front where you can see through which i pointed out in my main video which is really cool all the way back and then the diffuser section as well so around the apron and then the diffuser down at the bottom so you can have that either painted black as standard or with the satin carbon or with the gloss carbon now my view on this is if you have a bright colored car the satin carbon is really cool i'm a big fan of the satin carbon finish on the exterior as well because i mean it doesn't get as dirty as well because dirt is kind of satin gray in effect so you don't see it as much on those lower sections of the car which i think is cool so satin carbon is probably the choice for me on the exterior now there's not really that much else outside that you can actually spec so let's open up the doors and jump in here which you do by pressing in there and have a little look at the interior so in here you've got lots of satin carbon again more reason for the satin carbon on the outside to match up with what's in here you have things like your movable pedal box the fixed seat so the seat base is completely solidly fixed in here um i didn't actually mention in my full video by the way there's a little storage bucket here which you press to open um not the biggest space in the world but there we go that was one cool little thing i didn't mention before but this car has the blue alcantara so you have a couple of different trims that you can have with mixtures of leather and alcantara and you should really head over to the configurator to have a look at all of these but i'm a big fan of alcantara the thing is the color you go for in here depends a lot on the exterior color so this dark blue works really nicely against the blue outside you also get that upper piece there and all the way around the dash as well around the top of the dash in the alcantara um i think that works really well but then you know depends what you want here what do you want there how do you want it we've got gloss carbon up here these seats are made by sparkle as well by the way i saw the manufacturing process when i was down at sparco for that which is pretty cool um so see color choices that's going to go with what's on the outside the safest is always to go black black leather black alcantara a nice sort of mix of the two because that will go with any exterior color and it works with wrapping in the future or any sort of things one wants to do that are crazy beyond that now coming around to the back one other thing titanium exhaust so i think this car has the standard exhaust system which doesn't sound bad by any means by any stretch of the imagination 3.5 liter twin turbocharged ecoboost v6 straight out the back there out the exhaust system but you do have the option of a titanium exhaust if one can afford it it's quite an expensive option on the car in fact it's actually quite um an expensive car to spec up to be completely honest but that's half the fun so you can also change your brake calipers you can paint the calipers in a series of different options depending how you want that to be done as well so there are lots of choices and well like i said i kind of want to do this cutie to get you guys some input you know how should we spec this ford gt i'm lucky enough that ford have secured me the allocation i applied for the car and obviously part of that was that i promised i would share the story adventure and journey of my car with you guys as i have been doing with these videos so having a good look at it at geneva going up the hill with harry tinkle at goodwood then today having my first drive in it so there's a lot more to come obviously in this process and i'm looking forward to getting like spec box so when you're when your order window opens which is about nine months before your car arrives they send you this box you might have seen it with a number of different samples the different carbons the different leathers the different options the different colors um the paint sort of samples so you can basically decide from that how you want your car to look and then when you get your car you get a serial plaque with it that you can also stick back on your box and keep sort of in connection with the car with your choices up at the very top which is kind of neat as well but let's just jump in here quickly because there are also other things you can customize that you can have custom harnesses you can have a nice bright color harness or harnesses that match um with the choice one goes for uh for the seats or the exterior all the stripes i like how when you press the break it wakes it up um it brings up the gt logo on the screen but let's just start this for a moment into life one thing i was going to show there that i didn't was the shift lights on the steering wheel so if i just turn this off again for a second and then immediately turn it back on look at the shift lights as you start it they give you that little light sequence so they sort of flash across and back which is quite neat um letting me know that the door is open that is not a problem right now and um yeah it all uh works pretty neatly it's a lot more comfortable than you might think in this car by the way um it's awesome actually and i would thoroughly recommend checking out my full video because i talked a lot more basically about everything showing you through the inside all around the outside but i'm very keen to get your thoughts as to how i should spec it how my car should be whether it should be i guess something that sort of sits in should i look at it more like uh kind of investment do it in launch spec use it i'm obviously gonna use my card don't get me wrong on that but long term history or should i try and make up something completely unique should i go paint to sample and create my own color should i do it in color that i've done before like the purple of my mclaren or the light blue of my old 675lt coupe i don't know i don't know there's so many options i have had literally the most amazing day today by the way driving this car like you would not believe and i'm still a little bit lost for words about it all um it's just been truly epic truly truly epic but i've got to start thinking and there's no better time to think about what spec you'd like than when you're actually sat in the car itself and taking a look at it so i've set my mind during the time i've been filming this video that satin carbon fiber is the way to go so it's definitely going to have satin carbon fiber exterior parts i would like it to have stripes i think the ford gt distinctly had stripes so i need to come up with two colors that go nicely with stripes and then probably these wheels but in a color that depends on the body so you can have them black silver gray i guess or you could change them afterwards to anything you'd like so the color of the wheels is going to be dictated by the body color of the car itself but i think there's just so many ridiculously cool details about this car look at those headlights just look at those headlights it's just crazy and this is sitting in sport mode so it goes five centimeters lower you can obviously have the weighing up or down depending how you want it but it's like it's just i don't know a spaceship kind of thing you look through here and it's just bizarre it's just like straight through straight out anyway i am rambling on plenty much but do go and click over to cutie let me know your thoughts guys i'd love some feedback and some input from you guys about how i should spec the ford gt and uh yeah that will kind of be the start i guess of my order process although i'm not gonna receive the car to be completely honest with you until late half of 2019. so i've got about two and a bit years to wait frustratingly long wait but i'm sure the car is going to be worth it now that i've driven it actually i know it's going to be worth it so i'm definitely getting it let's not have the discussion about whether i'll whether i'll buy the car or not um for now so yes amazing what a day what a drive what an awesome car what a brilliant experience but i'll wrap this one up for there thank you ever so much as always for watching guys do let me know your thoughts and i'll catch up with you again very soon cheers you\n"