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END OF THE LINE; Ford builds the last GT.(News)
Byline: ROGER HART
On Sept. 21, a little more than two years after the first production car rolled off the assembly line at the Special Vehicle Center in Wixom, Michigan, workers built the last Ford GT-a bright red one-destined for a customer in Canada.
Averaging about nine cars per day, the 60 assembly plant workers at Wixom built 4038 GTs; 3656 aimed at U.S. roads, 277 for Canada and 105 for Europe. The last 40 or so cars, all red and with slightly different bumpers to meet Canadian regulations, went to our northern neighbors.
Revealed as a concept at the 2002 Detroit auto show, the first GTs-paying homage to its ancestral cousin, the Ford GT40-were built in time for Ford's centennial in the summer of 2003. One year later, on June 30, 2004, the first GT production car was built. From ...
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