Buying a really expensive sports car comes with a lot of extras. You get extra-special service at the dealership, a bunch of extra supplies for keeping it tucked safely in your climate-controlled garage, and usually, you get to pick where the car actually gets delivered to you, in case you don’t want to drive it away from the dealership yourself.
Most people, when presented with this option, choose their home or their garage, simply because it makes things simple. The owner of this Ford Mustang GTD decided the best place to get his Nürburgring-record-setting, corner-carving supercar delivered wouldn’t be his house or even his local Ford dealer, but instead, his local Porsche dealer.
The newly minted GTD owner in question, John Alcantara (no relation to the fabric company), decided not only to get his Mustang delivered to a Porsche dealer, but also had photos taken so he could post the delivery event online for “a bit of fun,” according to comments he made on Reddit.
Why send it to Porsche? And how did he even convince them to let it happen? It seemed so silly, I just had to know. As it turns out, it was simply more convenient to get his paint protection film applied to the car, according to Alcantara. Thanks to the immense power of dealership groups, you get weird opportunities like this. So he made it happen.
“My Ford dealer is also my Porsche dealer, and my PPF shop is next door to Porsche, so they let me deliver there to avoid the hassle of a second transport,” he told me over direct message. “These cars are wiiiiide, so I wanted to avoid any risk of damage transferring.”
The funniest part of this has to be that they actually used the Porsche dealer’s delivery room for the handover ceremony, which even has a quote from Ferry Porsche overhead. I wonder if Ferry would be okay with this:
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I’m not sure I’d be brave enough to face the internet wrath of Porsche purists or of Mustang guys questioning why I’m associating with a brand that’s not Ford. Alcantara, though, seemed pretty chill about it when I asked him about reactions, both in person and through the world-wide-web.
“It was a spectacle for sure! Lots of questions and bewildered looks…”
“I’m a 992 GT3 owner also. So, I think all of the competition comments are funny,” he continued. “The comments are as expected from a few folks who don’t like challenging the establishment, but surprising overall, and I love it.”
Alcantara told me he was one of just a handful of people who were allocated a GTD build slot through Ford’s “poker chip” program, where select buyers were sent a black box with a titanium poker chip embossed with the Mustang logo, signifying they could “cash in” the chip for a GTD. Tim Burton, known online through his YouTube channel Shmee150, made a big deal about showing off the chip when he published a video in 2024 revealing he’d be purchasing a GTD:
Alcantara, who took delivery of the GTD this past week, says his purchase was a near-three-year process, which included picking a custom color scheme involving a lovely shade of green, a yellow racing stripe down the middle, and lots of exposed carbon fiber.
“I was really anxious about all the custom colors that haven’t fully revealed publicly yet, and when the car came, I was relieved,” he told me. “Many of the comments have been about the spec more than the typical discussion we see on GTD, and I feel that indicates that I successfully selected the unique spec I intended. I really wanted the car to be unique and memorable, so I sort of threw caution to the wind.”
I, for one, think buyers should be doing more of this, just to drive up confusion at dealerships on a national level. Next time someone I know buys a new Nissan Z, I’m going to advise them to take delivery at the nearest Toyota dealership. Likewise, if I know someone’s buying a new Miata, they should take delivery at a Subaru dealer.
People can even go in the opposite direction. Shopping for your next Lamborghini Temerario? Why not get it delivered at your local Nissan dealer? Picking up a third Ferrari Roma to convince your dealer you’re worthy of an F80 allocation? That Buick-GMC dealer down the street is ready to take delivery.
If you’re planning on buying a flashy car in the future, ask whether you can get it delivered at a different carmaker’s dealer. We need more nonsensical silliness in this world.
Top graphic image: Source: hazardshotz on Instagram
Rich guys are just so crazy and cool!
Congrats to the new owner. Just make sure you don’t end up on an episode of “Mustang Drivers Doing Mustang Things”!!
As a fellow purchaser of new vehicles, I am extremely disappointed to never have been part of a “handover ceremony.”
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Honestly this seems brilliant to me, as I’d much rather have my super expensive car being taken care of by staff that are used to working around six figure cars routinely and not F150s all day.
The color scheme of this GTD just screams, “Aston Martin didn’t give me an allocation for a Valour, so I painted my GTD like one.”
That, and having the GTD delivered at your preferred Porsche dealer to avoid damaging the GTD sounds like peak rich guy problems…
That green is pretty common on Aston Martin cars, especially when paired with exposed carbon and yellow stripes…
Eh, the more green cars (or cars with an actual color palate) on the road the better.
Green has been a color choice on the Mustang since the 1960’s, with Highland Green being released in 1968…
Yeah, I mean anyone remember the 1968 Shelby Green Hornet Mustang? That thing was gorgeous!
um- he could have had an aston for that price
Not an A/M Valour he couldn’t… they only made 110 of them and they were nearly $2 million each.
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Links for those who don’t see the resemblance of both the car and the color…
Very relatable story!
We once brought in some Taco Bell to our local BK and ate it in the restaurant. So ballsy of us. But we were just teenagers and didn’t know better.
There were probably more than a few 300SL Gullwings & Roadsters delivered new to Studebaker dealerships in the US in 50’s and early 60’s (for roadsters).
Im not surprised the guy has “I don’t give a fuck” money
But the dealer didn’t give a fuck either, they’re owned by the same person.
This is kind of a non-story.
I have money look at me story.
Ok Beau – ball is in your court.
I think he already has his, in custom “Beauberry” color. Not sure if Ford did that at the factory or Galpin Auto Sports did it, but either way its’ a helluva provenance.
He does–saw it parked next to his Beauberry GT at the Galpin Car Show.
I really wanted to take another jab at Mustang owner’s, but alas. Nothing to jab at here. Seems like a good Porsche dealership.
1) The Porsche and Ford dealers are owned by the same person? Of course they didn’t care.
2) I hear, “I was allocated a slot to buy…”, and I instantly stop caring. Rich people doing rich people stuff. Whatever.
I had the same reaction when it mentioned he received a box with an allocation chip, other car is a Porsche, same dealer, yadda. Some free advice for people of wealth who either intentionally or unintentionally flaunt it on line: Times have changed, not only are your possessions at risk but now so are your family members, see Savannah Guthrie’s mother. One more thing; that yellow stripe destroys the entire look of the car.
The yellow stripe and grey panels look like the road is going up and over the car. It’s providing lane markings for a monster truck to ignore.
The Ferrari you have sent to the Buick-GMC dealer is the last one you’ll be allowed to buy.
Come on down to Bob Jones Ferrari-Mitsubishi!
Buy a Purosangue, take your change in Outlander Sports!
Now I wanna know the weirdest joint dealership that actually exists. There’s gotta be a Hyundai-Kia-McLaren out there
Serious questions:
1) How does this sale avoid the onerous franchise agreements that exist to “protect” dealers in each state? Does this Porsche dealer also own the Ford dealer through whom the sale was facilitated?
2) When these allocations were awarded to end purchasers, did dealers intercede and slap absurd “market adjustments” on the sales?
This was a total non story on that front as the article states that it was the same dealership group that owned the two stores and that they were across the parking lot from one another. To avoid risk of damaging the car prior to the application of the paint protection film they agreed to send it directly to the Porsche location as the Ford store doesn’t apply ppf apparently.
Hey, look – he’s gonna do the paint protection on only one half of the car, just like the Autopian’s Murano! That’s what the yellow painters tape is for, right?
That’s what I thought, it looks like the car is in the middle of some sort of paint project.