Safe to assume no 2017 GT500 but why the 3 year platform wait?

Why Ford? Why?

Because GT350 ;)

In all seriousness, I'd love to see GT500 alongside GT350, but I don't see it happening.

That being said, we did have the Boss 302 (surely closest in terms of DNA to the GT350) alongside the GT500 at the end of the S197 lifecycle.

Someone sent me this tonight though, link just takes me to the generic Ford site...placeholder?

You get 2016 GT500 even when searching by VIN for a GT350 on fordparts.com.

z06psi said:

Why Ford? Why?

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Did I blink my eyes and miss something? So why safe to assume no '17 GT500? Things are very fluid with halo musclecar car offerings from Ford, GM and Chrysler. If GM will be bringing a high HP variant of the Camaro to market and/or Chrysler will give the Hellcat twins a HP bump, it's hard for me to imagine Ford not answering with something big!

Oh, I've got a feeling Ford WILL respond with something big..........just not for '17MY. Maybe not even for '18MY as they'll have their hands full with the facelift launch and, hopefully, a Mach 1 :ford:

healntoe said:

Did I blink my eyes and miss something? So why safe to assume no '17 GT500? Things are very fluid with halo musclecar car offerings from Ford, GM and Chrysler. If GM will be bringing a high HP variant of the Camaro to market and/or Chrysler will give the Hellcat twins a HP bump, it's hard for me to imagine Ford not answering with something big!

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MY 2017 will start showing up soon. We would have heard something by now.

Twin Turbo said:

Oh, I've got a feeling Ford WILL respond with something big..........just not for '17MY. Maybe not even for '18MY as they'll have their hands full with the facelift launch and, hopefully, a Mach 1 :ford:

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Are you thinking that FP is involved in the launch of facelifted 2018 models? I don't believe that it works that way. If I read correctly, you are HOPEFUL that the Mach1 will come down the line before the any specialty model like a GT500, or Bullitt, etc. Like everyone else here, you probably have some history with the model that you are hopeful about. I can understand that very well -- in fact I have owned a '68 GT500KR and still have a 68 GT350 convertible. And I do remember very well riding my bicycle at 15 years old to the local Ford dealer a couple of miles from house just to gawk at the new '69 Mach 1's that arrived that day. I understand...this thread is all about speculation and we all tend to speculate in the direction of our preferences first. My preference happens to be for a GT500 5.0 or 5.2 TT coming in between 725-750 HP. Whatever comes next, I don't believe we will be disappointed!

But is there a reason for the 3-4 year wait on a new platform? Hell the ZL1 came out the following year this time around.

z06psi said:

But is there a reason for the 3-4 year wait on a new platform? Hell the ZL1 came out the following year this time around.

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But not the ZL1 AND the Z/28. The GT350 did come out. And are the ZL1s even on the street yet, or are they still vaporware? Heck, people are getting their 2017 GT350s already. Is the 1LE handling package even available yet? Ford had the PP ready immediately when the new model came out.

healntoe said:

Are you thinking that FP is involved in the launch of facelifted 2018 models?

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No, I don't think Ford Performance will be involved in the base models.......but Ford will likely want to roll out the base models first, then the SE/High Performance editions. It keeps Mustang in the news/press for a longer period of time.

z06psi said:

But is there a reason for the 3-4 year wait on a new platform? Hell the ZL1 came out the following year this time around.

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Yes, reason is they are making money on their investment! The S550 is enjoying success, making only minor changes between model years. If acceptance by the market was not there, they would have changed the marketing plan, but why should they...are blowing away the competition with the current offering!

I just received this from Ford. Looks like 2017 could be a possibility. After all, the Ford GT was kept quiet until they were ready to reveal it.

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Well we know the GT 500 will not be here by 8/29/2016 so no reason to exclude it from this deal.

Remember Ford got 137 GT350s in April 2015, about 6 weeks before 2016 production started. If they finish testing and cram in a few limited ones right before 2017 production ends in April 17, who knows. They still have all summer and winter to test