Friday, December 23, 2011

Car Of The Day: December 23, 2011


Today's car of the day is Hot Wheels' 2005 Ford Shelby GR-1.



The Ford Shelby GR-1 was a 2.2 million dollar concept car that was created by the Ford Motor Company. It was first introduced at the 2005 North American International Auto Show. The GR-1 was created with the inspiration from the Shelby brand. It was inspired by and bears resemblance to the Shelby Daytona.



For more information and pictures of the real car please visit: Ford Shelby GR-1



A nice concept model from Hot Wheels.  Pity Ford didn't put this into production as a replacement for the Ford GT



Much of the GR-1 chassis and running gear is based on the Ford Shelby Cobra Concept, which was presented one year earlier at the 2004 North American International Auto Show. As with the Ford Shelby Cobra Concept, GR-1 project was led by Manfred Rumpel and developed by Ford's Advanced Product Creation group.

The GR-1 uses a 6.4L all-aluminum V10 engine and also has certain components from the Ford GT. The GR-1 is rated up to 605 hp (451 kW) and up to 501 lb·ft (679 N·m) of torque. It uses a 6-speed manual transmission.

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