{"id":41,"date":"2003-12-11T16:27:45","date_gmt":"2003-12-12T00:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/?p=41"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"road-test-porsche-carrera-gt-and-ford-gt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/11\/road-test-porsche-carrera-gt-and-ford-gt\/","title":{"rendered":"Road test: Porsche Carrera GT and Ford GT"},"content":{"rendered":"

Road test: Porsche – Carrera GT<\/a><\/p>\n

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I have never driven better. <\/p>\n

Let me say that again. This is the best, most amazing, most stupendous engine that I’ve ever come across.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

Still, having the Carrera out of my reach is not the end of the world. Because the Ford GT<\/a> is not. And while one is a fantastic engineering achievement, the other is just a great car. Look at it this way. The Porsche is like a dentist’s drill. Precise, fast and silver. The Ford is like the latest hammer action ‘Wall Basher’ from Black & Decker. I admire one hugely. But I love the one with stripes on it.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Road test: Ford GT<\/a><\/p>\n

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You may respect the Porsche 911 Turbo. You may like the Lamborghini Gallardo and you may love the Ferrari 360. But the Ford GT is a car you want. <\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

But what matters most is that as it disappeared off the motorway, I craned my neck for one last look at that phenomenal rear end. I never do that. Normally, I leave a car thinking only of the review to be written. But the GT was different. It had been a brief encounter. And the effect was just as powerful. Even now, weeks later, I simply cannot get the Ford GT out of my head.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Road test: Porsche – Carrera GT I have never driven better. Let me say that again. This is the best, most amazing, most stupendous engine that I’ve ever come across. … Still, having the Carrera out of my reach is not the end of the world. Because the Ford GT is not. And while one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/psIKy-F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}