They were safe not just in a literal sense but, although largely very handsome, they were safe in every other respect, too. In the early 2000s, one manufacturer stood head and shoulders above the rest when it came to safety: Volvo.
They might have been sub-£100,000 new in the UK back then, but to get hold of one today you’ll need at least triple that to get behind the wheel. In contrast to the Lightning pick-up, it’s estimated only 4,038 GTs were built from 2005 to 2006. Someone at Ford then had the brilliant idea of taking that engine, albeit with four valves per cylinder rather than two, and dropping it into its new mid-engined supercar, its follow-up in name and design to the original Le Mans winning GT40: the Ford GT. This had a supercharged 5.4-litre V8, and over the course of five years Ford sold more than 28,000 of the things. Wind the clocks forward two more years and a new model joined the tenth-gen F-150 line-up: the Lightning. Fast forward to 1997 and we arrive at the tenth-generation F-150, available with a 4.2-litre V6, 4.6-litre V8 and 5.4-litre V8. Ford’s first F-Series truck was launched in 1948, available with a straight-six or V8 of various capacities. What could be more regular than a pick-up truck? Yes, it’s time for the Ford F-150 and the first Ford GT.
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