I found this while cruising Wikipedia: The Ford GN-34 was an abandoned project by Ford to produce a mid-engined car in the '80's to compete with the Fiero and the Mr-2.
The engine was designed by Yamaha, and later used in the SHO series.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_hell <--scroll all the way down or search for "Automobiles"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_SHO_V6_engine <--SHO engine.

http://www.drivingenthusias...006/04/03.html#a1408 <--Car talked about.

I was wondering if anybody has more information on that car. Specifically pictures. Curiosity is killing me.
I tried searching the Pff archives, but to no avail.

I searched all over I can't find anything

only ones i have of a mid engine mustang..

[This message has been edited by Kameo Kid (edited 11-21-2007).]

Thanks guys.. I hope this isn't as hard to find as a unicorn.

-M

Wow with the 220hp that motor put out it would have spanked the Fiero... Looks like it made it into at least one small Ford.

SHOGUN

Not much time right now but I found
I took these at a car show a few years ago.
http://www.cardomain.com/me.../382355_168_full.jpg
http://www.cardomain.com/me.../382355_169_full.jpg




Let me throw in Chrysler's (actually a Dodge)



http://books.google.com/boo...m0r06rMhOO8#PPA27,M1 page 27

[This message has been edited by Gokart Mozart (edited 11-25-2007).]

Were yall refering to this--
http://www.pistonheads.com/doc.asp?c=103&i=7138

As listed above Ford took a Festiva coupe and stuffed the SHO engine in the rear. You could buy one of these from a dealer (I think) but I believe it was more of a 90s car rather then the 80s. The end car or project was called the SHOGUN and had some excellent statistics in the super car territory. I think it pulled more lateral Gs then the F40. The SHOGUN got some extra body parts added mainly in the name of fender flares because the engine transmission combo was that much wider then the Festiva body. I guess since the GN-34 was canceled it's probably not the SHOGUN though.

Thanks for the pics. It's not the RS200 though.

-M

Gokart Mozart has the pic of it, in his 3rd link page 144 its the red car

That red car on page 44 is a clay model "Petunia", the code name for the Ford GT project.

I meant p27, sorry it did say p144 for some wierd reason.

The article above on my site DrivingEnthusiast.net is mine...

One thing to clear up, a misconception. The GN-34 (codename) was not at all a competitor to the Fiero... it would have been considerably more expensive (4-5x $$ at least) and was aimed at a very high entry-exotic market. Ford tried everything to build it, and even discussed contracting the build with Porsche. You may know that at the time Ford had Porsche do some advanced engineering on the then-upcoming Duratec V-6 engine line.

Also, it was never previewed in a car show, contrary to what is reported on the SHO site.

Ford has no official pictures, I'm a member of their press group and had them try to dig one out. No luck. Their is no official info at all. The only known photo was a spy shot back at that time... and it wasn't very good.


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[This message has been edited by jwfisher (edited 11-25-2007).]