Looking to buy an investment grade automobile? Consider buying an exotic car called the Ford GT. Any production year is good, but a newer model as an investment car is actually preferred. The more modern production of the Ford GT is a historic automobile despite being a relative newcomer to the exotic auto world.
The exotic car was truly a modern era reproduction of the Ford GT that competed in Le Mans in the 1960s -- but it was not like the failed Ford Thunderbird remake. That car was a retro inspired cool-car flop. The new Ford GT is all kinds of hot car! Why? In part because the old Ford GT 40 [its predecessor] was a future car design from the start, designed to rival any Ferrari on or off the track, and because it had none of the stigma of trying to invent a better mousetrap when it came to re-creating a popular classic car look. New car dealers laugh and call that problem now the "Thunderbird trap".
The Ford Thunderbird was a classic hot rod in its original form, and fooling with perfection simply was not the right thinking from a publicity angle when it came to cultivating public interest in buying the new Ford Thunderbird automobile back in the early 2000s [2002 - 2005]. When they remade the new Thunderbird convertibles with a future car look, they lost the interest of the classic car collectors who would have otherwise bought it. And, with a high price tag for what you got back in the day, Ford dealers also failed to attract buys interested in cruising the local highways with the top down -- as empty wallets tended to kill exuberance (especially when the quality features of the automobile simply were not present the way they were in a similar size European import like a BMW or even a Volkswagen).
The first 200 T-bird production cars were sold online primarily to classic car enthusiasts and car collectors by Neiman Marcus in 42 minutes when they first came out -- but the 40K MSRP quickly discouraged casual buyers. The company produced roughly 67,500 vehicles.
The Ford GT does not have the stigma of being "too future car looking" though -- as the original GT 40 exotic car design was timeless in design in and of itself. As such, it is on the list of hot cars from the exotic car market to invest in, own, and hold. The American car company only produced roughly 4000 Ford GT models over a three-year run. [2005, 2006, 2007]
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