Base 2010 GT is 27,995
2010 Premium GT is 30,995
to price a 2011 GT...which LOOKS like a 2010...in the upper 30s is foolish, and will never happen. I imagine the NEW price for a "Base 2011 GT" in the $28995-30995 range and a "Premium 2011 GT" in the $31995-32995.
You have to remember that we aren't paying for horsepower on a Year to Year basis...only on a model to model basis within a certain year. Not sure if that makes since. Sure we are going to pay for the R&D but not enough to shift prices up by $10k in one year...The base 1998 GT was around $22k I think...it took 12 model years for the base GT to get up to the current $27,995...so annually they increase the price about $450-550 annually. To all the sudden increase that by literally 1500% would do nothing but alienate the faithful. If there was a year for Ford to really inflate the price it would have been 2005. The GT is not a super car. Ford likes to brag about the affordability of the GT500, they arent going to position the GT within $5000 of the GT500.
I went by 3 ford dealerships in Houston in the last 3 weeks. The cheapest 2010 GT was around 31,000.They went up to 37k. No dealer markup. Average price was around 34-35k.