Ford GT 2005

Full Description: Ford GT 2005-It was in France, in the middle of the Sixties, that large the supercar American came to the life. A car of packing low-impetus and muscular built to gain on the legendary circuit of race of Mans, the project of Ford WP was spearheaded by any moin' a power station that the President and Henry Ford II. of company of PRESIDENT. Its goal was to change the history of car of execution. And it. The beat of racing racing car of Ford WP the better world in resistance packing, placing 1-2-3 to the 24 hours of Mans in 1966 and gaining the three consecutive years with venir.

Aujourd'hui, Ford 2005 all-nine WP supercar comes to the life in the form of three cars from road from production which honour the traditional cars with race in the ingeniousness of design and technology. Constructions “of centennial Supercar” of Ford on the product-carried out transformation of the company and will be the flagship year of Division 2004 of Ford of “car” which will include launchings of the truck of Ford five hundreds, of the free crossing of style and the legendary mustang - and then the truck of semi-size of Ford Futura in 2005.

“Ford WP is our centennial Supercar because it reaches in great moments of our past, while throwing a light in the future,” said Chris Theodore, vice-president, anticipated creation of product of Ford. “Because we celebrate our centennial, Ford WP represents several of technologies, the processes and the people which will help to lead our 100 years to come. ”

Conception: Concept with the rйalitй

Although the new car of production and the original car of race both share the mystic of the name of Ford WP, they do not share a simple dimension. The new car is more than 18 inches longer and holds almost 4 inches larger. Its new lines use and refine the best devices of the history of Ford WP and express the identity of the car by the modern development of proportion and surface.

“It is astonishing that we will show the first cars little more right than a year after we began the program,” said John Coletti, director of the programs of SVT. “Which is a true homage to the people, the processes and technology behind the cars. ”

Les front shock absorbers curves more wheels of 18 inches and tires of the eagle F1 Supercar from Goodyear. In the tradition of the original runners of Ford WP, the doors crossed in roof. Ahead on the principal edge of the panel quarter postpones are the functional cups of cooling which dig drains the fresh air towards the engine. The compartments of rear wheel-axle unit, filled of wheels and tires of 19 inches, define the back of the car, whereas the line of accent of the cap before joined and finishes the profile of the car to the integrated spoiler of “ducktail”.

Regardant inside by the back-light, one finds the gasoline of the sports car in the MOD of Ford the engine 5.4 V-8 overfed per liter. The contacts of finishing are the blue covers of cam of Ford, each one which comprises an aluminium cover of rolling up printed with the words “actuated by Ford. ”

Technology innovatrice

Il has there a little more than one year, Coletti was been a possibility of career - to carry out the programme of technology of Ford WP. The hook: The first three cars were to be delivered for the centennial celebration of Ford.

Coletti joined Neil Ressler, a former vice-president of Ford which reprocesses left to consult on the program, to choose Ford WP quickly “equips rкveuse” with the engineers and the advisers. Neil Hannemann was typed to be an engineer in chief of program and to supervise the development of day in day of Ford WP after years of the tasks of technology supercar of croix-industrie.

Ford WP comprises many news and single technologies, including the panels out of aluminium superb-plastic-formed of body, roll-stuck panels of floor, a central tunnel welded paragitation, a gas tank of “embark-in-a-bottle”, a system capless of fuel filler, panels of only one part of door and an aluminium cover of engine with carbon-fibre an interior panel of only one piиce.

Freiner is handled by the aluminium clamps of monoblock of Brembo of four-piston with the cross-drilled rotors and exhaled with each of the four corners. When the glass one postpones is open, the components and the back engine of suspension become the focal point of the car. Precision-to mould the aluminium components of suspension and the tires of Goodyear of 19 inches - compounds with the overpowering presence of the V-8 engine - create a seizing aspect and communicate the qualifications of execution of Ford GT.

La power station йlectrique 5.4L est tout-aluminium et alimentй par un surchauffeur а vis d'Eaton. Elle comporte des culasses de quatre-valve et des composants forgйs, y compris le vilebrequin, les bielles de poutre en double T et les pistons en aluminium. Le rendement de puissance rйsultant est de 500 puissances en chevaux et 500 livres-pied de couple.

La puissance est mise а la route par une six-vitesse de Ricardo le transaxle que manuel comportant un hйlicoпdal limitй-glissent le diffйrentiel.

Histoire de course

Les coureurs originaux de Ford GT йtaient technologie et la conception s'йmerveille dйmontrant l'attachement et la persйvйrance de Ford. En quelques annйes courtes sous la direction d'Henry Ford II, la compagnie a йtabli un programme а partir de zйro qui a atteint le pinacle de la concurrence internationale de motorsports - et restй lа pendant quatre saisons de emballage.

Il est ironique, » йnonce John Coletti, « que dans les annйes 60 Ford a apportй dehors le coureur fabuleux de Ford GT dominer Ferrari sur les circuits de course de ministre du monde, et celui dans le not-too-distan t future, the Ford GT will return to outgun the Ferrari once again, but this time on the streets of America.�

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