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hey guys and gals, this past summer, i worked for ford down in dearborn, MI at the world headquarters. i was there for the whole ford centennial (lots of sweet CSVT's at the SVTOA display) but anyhow, i saw and test drove 3 of the new GT40's, red white and blue can i just saw they are SWEET!!!!!! anyhow i didnt want to give them up but life sucks and i had to just thought i would throw this up later all 
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We landed on the moon!
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Originally posted by 99blacksesport:
Originally posted by Kremithefrog:
Originally posted by 99blacksesport:
While on the topic, I heard Mazda is bringing back the RX-7 in the form of the RX-8... And I've heard theres rumors Nissan is doing something new with the Z series of cars.  
I get your point, but the rx8 is the rx8, and mazda actually has a rx7 planned depending on how well the rx8 sells.
No kidding huh? I honestly didnt know about that, I thought the rx-8 was a continuation of the rx-7 line. Have they given any details or drawings of what this rx-7 might look like, or a date on when it might come out? -Nick
No date and no drawings (other than home-done ones) yet. I think it'll be a while before they do it, if they do it. I also think it depends on whether toyota decides to release a new supra or another manufacturer does something similar. The rx8 is already pretty nice and they may end up just doing a mazdaspeed treatment to it (project specs and pics are out there) and forget about the rx7.
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Originally posted by Kremithefrog:
Originally posted by 99blacksesport:
Originally posted by Kremithefrog:
Originally posted by 99blacksesport:
While on the topic, I heard Mazda is bringing back the RX-7 in the form of the RX-8... And I've heard theres rumors Nissan is doing something new with the Z series of cars.
I get your point, but the rx8 is the rx8, and mazda actually has a rx7 planned depending on how well the rx8 sells.
No kidding huh? I honestly didnt know about that, I thought the rx-8 was a continuation of the rx-7 line. Have they given any details or drawings of what this rx-7 might look like, or a date on when it might come out? -Nick
No date and no drawings (other than home-done ones) yet. I think it'll be a while before they do it, if they do it. I also think it depends on whether toyota decides to release a new supra or another manufacturer does something similar. The rx8 is already pretty nice and they may end up just doing a mazdaspeed treatment to it (project specs and pics are out there) and forget about the rx7.
Hmmm....
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Originally posted by rodri196:
hey guys and gals,
this past summer, i worked for ford down in dearborn, MI at the world headquarters. i was there for the whole ford centennial (lots of sweet CSVT's at the SVTOA display) but anyhow, i saw and test drove 3 of the new GT40's, red white and blue can i just saw they are SWEET!!!!!! anyhow i didnt want to give them up but life sucks and i had to just thought i would throw this up
later all
I don't know you, but I do know something about Ford and the Petunia program. Are you sure you test drove them?
East Lansing (Go Spartans), Dearborn for the summer. Ok, let's assume you had an internship. I personally know HIGH level executives who have not test driven the car. Only 3 of which existed at the time. And someone tossed you the keys? To all three? Car # 1 is Bill's personal car. The first public example sold for over 550K at auction. The MSRP will be in excess of 115K. If your last name is not Padilla, Coletti, Mays, Pardo or Ford; I call BULLSH!T. Please prove me wrong.
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Originally posted by Trapps:
Originally posted by rodri196:
hey guys and gals,
this past summer, i worked for ford down in dearborn, MI at the world headquarters. i was there for the whole ford centennial (lots of sweet CSVT's at the SVTOA display) but anyhow, i saw and test drove 3 of the new GT40's, red white and blue can i just saw they are SWEET!!!!!! anyhow i didnt want to give them up but life sucks and i had to just thought i would throw this up
later all
I don't know you, but I do know something about Ford and the Petunia program. Are you sure you test drove them?
East Lansing (Go Spartans), Dearborn for the summer. Ok, let's assume you had an internship. I personally know HIGH level executives who have not test driven the car. Only 3 of which existed at the time. And someone tossed you the keys? To all three? Car # 1 is Bill's personal car. The first public example sold for over 550K at auction. The MSRP will be in excess of 115K. If your last name is not Padilla, Coletti, Mays, Pardo or Ford; I call BULLSH!T. Please prove me wrong.
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Hey guys, I worked for Ford this summer as the crash test dummy for the GT40, so I've driven 10 of them for a short distance. Sweet cars! Later this summer I became good friends with Bill Jr. who gave me the keys to his GT40 and also let me drive one of his six Ferrari Enzos (he has three black ones, a green one, a pink one and one painted like a cow!) Then I test drove the next RX-7... and the new Supra... okay later all! I'm so cool! 
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Originally posted by Trapps:
Originally posted by rodri196:
hey guys and gals,
this past summer, i worked for ford down in dearborn, MI at the world headquarters. i was there for the whole ford centennial (lots of sweet CSVT's at the SVTOA display) but anyhow, i saw and test drove 3 of the new GT40's, red white and blue can i just saw they are SWEET!!!!!! anyhow i didnt want to give them up but life sucks and i had to just thought i would throw this up
later all
I don't know you, but I do know something about Ford and the Petunia program. Are you sure you test drove them?
East Lansing (Go Spartans), Dearborn for the summer. Ok, let's assume you had an internship. I personally know HIGH level executives who have not test driven the car. Only 3 of which existed at the time. And someone tossed you the keys? To all three? Car # 1 is Bill's personal car. The first public example sold for over 550K at auction. The MSRP will be in excess of 115K. If your last name is not Padilla, Coletti, Mays, Pardo or Ford; I call BULLSH!T. Please prove me wrong.
I'm gonna have to agree with Trapps on this one, I know many engineers actually working on the program that haven't driven one . . .
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Originally posted by baco99:
and they discontinued the Ford Contour too! WTF!!???
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 
I was savnig up for a 2005 Contour SVT
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