Ford Execs Won’t Deny GT Supercar Successor

A writer over at Automobile.com apparently had a very interesting conversation with some Ford executives during an event at the North American International Auto Show this week. The interesting bits, however, weren’t from what was said, but what was not said.

Eric Tingwall posed the question “Is Ford interested in a successor to the GT?” to Derek Kuzak, Ford’s head of global product development. Kuzak was reportedly caught like a deer in the headlights, searching for an appropriate answer to the unexpected question. Ford CEO Alan Mulally jumped in with a brief comment, but is also reported to have said, “All I know is, if the ground is wet, they don’t let me drive it. That vehicle levitates.”

Kuzak, finally recovered and answered the question with, “Well I think there are certain things that we don’t want to talk about in terms of four-year product plans, if that’s okay.”

So, neither high-ranking Ford executive would deny that a GT successor was out of the question and Mullaly, in fact, alluded to the existence of something with abundant power.

Here at StangTV, we have previously speculated about the future of Ford’s 411-horsepower, 6.2-liter V8 engine, while the folks at Livernois Engineering and Hennessey Performance have demonstrated the mill’s potential right out of the box.

Despite an emphasis on electric cars, Ford’s future plans must (hopefully) also include some kind of response to GM’s onslaught of LS3-based performance cars. While the Camaro Z/28 plans have just been confirmed, Ford lacks an offset to the Cadillac CTS-V, yet has had plenty of time to analyze both the car and the strategic position it occupies.

So while the scribe at Automobile may have visions of forty-inch high, two door racers in mind, the term supercar is something not well defined, except perhaps by its performance. Ford disclosed a new emphasis on distinctive technology for Lincoln this past week, so perhaps that is where that-which-cannot-be-acknowledged may well appear from.

The game is afoot! Loose the hounds…