2004 Ford GT Concept | 1:12 Scale Diecast Model Car | MotorMax | Yellow

In the entire and magnificent story of American automotive ambition — a story of such extraordinary creative vision, such genuine engineering passion, and such completely and permanently compelling competitive spirit that it has produced some of the most celebrated, the most historically significant, and the most deeply personally meaningful performance cars in the entire history of the automobile — there are moments of such complete and total impact, such genuinely overwhelming significance, and such permanently and unconditionally transformative power that they do not merely add a chapter to the existing story of American automotive achievement but rewrite it entirely, creating in a single, spectacular, and completely unprecedented automotive event a before and an after that permanently and completely separates the automotive world’s understanding of what American performance engineering can achieve into two entirely distinct and entirely irreconcilable periods of relative ambition and relative achievement. The 2004 Ford GT Concept — the car that announced to the entire world with such complete conviction, such overwhelming authority, and such genuinely and permanently historic significance that America’s most storied and most passionately followed performance car heritage was not merely alive but was being renewed, reimagined, and reborn with a completeness of creative ambition and a genuinely extraordinary quality of engineering excellence that no one in the global automotive world had quite dared to expect or to anticipate — is precisely, completely, and magnificently one of those most extraordinary and most permanently significant automotive moments. And MotorMax has honored this most iconic and this most historically significant American automotive concept car in a beautifully crafted 1:12 scale large-format diecast model presented in the most vivid, the most dramatic, and the most completely and perfectly appropriate color for America’s most audacious and most genuinely magnificent automotive comeback story — a deep, rich, and magnificently electric Yellow — creating a collector’s model of genuine visual magnificence, authentic American performance car heritage character, and outstanding MotorMax manufacturing quality that every serious Ford GT enthusiast, American automotive heritage collector, and premium diecast aficionado worldwide will immediately recognize and deeply desire as an essential and deeply significant addition to their collection.

The Ford GT Concept story begins with one of the most celebrated and the most completely significant chapters in the entire history of American motorsport — the extraordinary and genuinely legendary story of Ford’s devastating assault on the Le Mans 24 Hours during the mid-1960s and the creation of the original Ford GT40 that was specifically and with complete competitive conviction developed to defeat Ferrari — then the dominant and seemingly invincible force in international endurance racing — on the world’s most demanding and the most prestigious circuit racing stage. The GT40 programme — conceived at the direct personal insistence of Henry Ford II, driven by the combined engineering genius of Carroll Shelby, Ken Miles, and the extraordinary team of designers and engineers assembled around them, and executed with the full financial and technical resources of the Ford Motor Company in one of the most ambitious, the most expensive, and the most completely serious motorsport programmes in the history of American automotive involvement in international circuit racing — produced in the Ford GT40 a racing car of such genuine and completely extraordinary competitive capability that it achieved what many in the international motorsport world had considered impossible: the complete, the convincing, and the historically decisive defeat of Ferrari at Le Mans, not once but four consecutive times from 1966 through 1969, in a demonstration of American motorsport engineering excellence and competitive conviction of such complete and overwhelming authority that it permanently and completely transformed the global automotive world’s understanding of what American motorsport engineering could achieve when directed with sufficient ambition, sufficient resources, and the kind of genuine and completely uncompromising competitive determination that the GT40 programme embodied in every dimension of its remarkable and historically significant existence.

When Ford unveiled the GT Concept at the 2002 Detroit Auto Show — introducing to an automotive world that had spent the preceding decades watching American performance car ambitions become progressively more constrained, more commercially compromised, and more distantly related to the genuine performance car engineering excellence of the GT40 era — the response was immediate, overwhelming, and completely unanimous in its verdict that something genuinely and historically significant had just occurred in the American automotive world. Here, in a single, spectacular, and genuinely breathtaking act of automotive creative audacity, Ford had reached back across nearly four decades of intervening automotive history and brought forward — with complete fidelity, complete creative respect, and genuine engineering conviction — the spirit, the character, and the completely authentic performance car ambition of the most celebrated American racing car in the history of the sport, reimagining it for the 21st century with a completeness and a sophistication of execution that immediately and completely convinced every observer that this was not a nostalgia exercise, not a marketing gesture, and not a commercially convenient reference to a glorious past — but a genuine, authentic, and completely serious statement of American performance car intent of the most credible and the most genuinely impressive kind.

The 2004 Ford GT Concept — representing the final development stage of the concept that would lead directly to the production Ford GT of 2004 — crystallized in its most completely resolved and its most definitively final concept form the design language, the proportional character, and the overall aesthetic vision that Camilo Pardo and the Ford Special Vehicles Team had developed from the original 2002 show car through successive refinements and developments into a vehicle of such genuinely extraordinary visual beauty, such completely convincing performance car presence, and such deeply authentic GT40 heritage resonance that it was immediately and unanimously acclaimed as one of the most beautiful and the most genuinely significant American automotive design achievements of the entire modern era. The GT Concept’s body — dramatically low, dramatically wide, and dramatically purposeful in its overall silhouette, with the characteristic and immediately recognizable GT40-inspired proportions of the long, sculpted bonnet, the dramatically raked windscreen, the wide and muscular body, and the characteristic flying buttress C-pillars that connected the roofline to the rear deck in such a direct and such a completely authentic reference to the original GT40’s most immediately recognizable and most deeply evocative design detail — created a vehicle of such immediate and overwhelming visual impact, such completely convincing American performance car authority, and such genuinely and permanently beautiful design character that every person who encountered it, regardless of their level of automotive knowledge or their depth of automotive enthusiasm, recognized immediately and instinctively that they were in the presence of something of genuine and permanently significant automotive importance.

In Yellow — a color of such vivid, electric, and genuinely spectacular visual impact against the Ford GT Concept’s dramatically proportioned and beautifully resolved body that it transforms this already most extraordinary of all large-format American automotive concept car diecast model releases into something of a genuinely different and entirely more magnificent order of visual drama and collector appeal — the 2004 Ford GT Concept achieves at 1:12 scale a visual statement of such genuinely overwhelming American performance car passion, such completely and permanently spectacular collector presence, and such absolutely and totally irresistible automotive beauty that it is quite simply one of the most visually exciting, the most immediately arresting, and the most completely and unconditionally compelling large-format American automotive concept car diecast models available to collectors anywhere in the world today. Yellow on the Ford GT Concept’s dramatically sculpted body — illuminating every carefully resolved surface transition, celebrating every beautifully rendered aerodynamic curve, and revealing the full depth and the complete magnificence of Camilo Pardo’s most celebrated design achievement with a vibrancy, an intensity, and a completely overwhelming visual energy of the most genuinely spectacular kind — creates an impression of such vivid, such electric, and such completely and permanently unforgettable American performance car beauty and American automotive passion that it is the most dramatic, the most immediately exciting, and the most genuinely and completely satisfying color presentation of the 2004 Ford GT Concept in 1:12 scale large-format diecast form that the premium collecting world has ever had the pleasure of encountering. MotorMax has rendered this Yellow finish with the quality, the vibrancy, and the surface excellence that this most dramatic and the most spectacular of all possible Ford GT Concept color presentations demands and that their manufacturing commitment enables and delivers — a Yellow of such genuine visual energy, such completely authentic American performance car character, and such completely and permanently satisfying surface quality that it honors the 2004 Ford GT Concept with the fullness of passion, the completeness of American automotive heritage reverence, and the genuinely impressive quality of large-format diecast excellence that this most audacious and this most completely magnificent American performance car concept has always and completely deserved.

MotorMax brings their manufacturing expertise, their genuine passion for American automotive subjects, and their authentic commitment to dimensional accuracy and authentic detail reproduction to this 2004 Ford GT Concept 1:12 scale model with results of solid quality and genuine collector satisfaction — delivering a model that accurately and authentically represents one of the most important and the most completely celebrated American automotive concept cars of the modern era with the dimensional accuracy, the period-correct specification detail, and the overall quality of execution that Ford GT collectors and American automotive heritage enthusiasts worldwide expect and deserve from a model of this most historically significant and this most completely extraordinary American performance car subject.

Product Specification

• Model Name: 2004 Ford GT Concept
• Scale: 1:12 — Large Format — Approximately 35-37cm Finished Length
• Manufacturer: MotorMax
• Product Type: Large Format Diecast Model Car
• Colour: Yellow — Vivid American Performance Car Presentation
• Body Style: Mid-Engined American Supercar Concept — GT40 Heritage Design Language
• Design Authority: Camilo Pardo — Ford Special Vehicles Team
• Concept Introduction: 2002 Detroit Auto Show — Initial Reveal
• 2004 Specification: Final Concept Development Stage — Direct Precursor to Production Ford GT
• GT40 Heritage: Inspired by Ford GT40 — 1966-1969 Le Mans 24 Hours — Four Consecutive Victories
• Key Design Features: GT40-Inspired Proportions, Flying Buttress C-Pillars, Long Sculpted Bonnet, Dramatically Raked Windscreen, Wide Muscular Body
• Key Features Reproduced: GT Concept Body Proportions, Flying Buttress C-Pillars, Front Fascia & GT Badging, Concept Interior Detail, GT Specification Wheels, Yellow Vivid Finish
• Production Result: Led Directly to 2004 Production Ford GT — 5.4-Litre Supercharged V8 — 550 HP
• Historical Significance: Most Important American Automotive Concept of the Modern Era — GT40 Le Mans Heritage Revival — American Supercar Renaissance Announcement
• Cultural Significance: Symbol of American Performance Car Ambition Renewed — GT40 Legacy Honored and Reimagined
• Recommended For: Adult Collectors (14+)
• Packaging: Collector’s Edition Box