Ford missed its production target for the first year of construction of the Ford GT

One day, Ford will eventually manufacture 1,000 Ford GT supercars for a group of handpicked people from a pool. applications, which would allow him to spend $ 500,000 in the car. first place. But these people can get the car later than expected, since Ford has not delivered the GTs as quickly as expected its first year of production.

The new generation of the GT came out a few years ago with 647 horsepower, a 3.5-liter V6 and seven-speed dual-clutch transmission, and has since been the focus of a couple of lawsuits and auction confusion with regard to premature resales. But before all this, Ford has invited people to apply to buy the GT at a MSRP of $ 450,000, saying first that he would build 500 and that later he would bring it to 1,000. The wave of application for the last 500 cars opens later this year.

But Ford might have some personal thinking to do in addition to sifting through these applications, since Motor Authority reports that he and his car-building partner, Multimatic, have missed production expectations for the first year. The plan was to build 250 Ford GTs a year for four years, and, according to Motor Authority, Ford has only built 138 of the 250 GTs for the 2017 model year.

From the story, who said Motor Authority has learned about the GT production hic of a message board:

"This is a hand-built supercar, which we are committed to delivering perfectly. We have integrated into our process a ramp-up due to several factors such as global certification tests and supplier constraints, "said a spokesman for Ford in a statement

. built cars on this scale before and it took the company a while to reach its goal of building a car a day of work. The first Ford GT was released from the store in December 2016, but Multimatic has not started to build a car by the day until mid-2017. This has been associated with vendor issues and concerns. minor delays in painting Victory cars. The victory of the GT at the 2016 Le Mans 24 Hours has resulted in a production shortfall for the 2017 model year. The spokesperson also noted that things are on schedule for the full series of 250 that will be built for the 2018 model year.

What's a little more expectation if you were important enough for an expensive car, right? Greatness can not be rushed, you know. It can not be resold in the first two years of the property either.