Test Drives
It's a Ford corporate standard to do a quality audit on randomly selected cars after final assembly. This includes a road test, and audit by trained inspectors.
On a normal car line, there may be as many as 15- 20 cars a day audited, in all weather conditions. Because of the low volume of the GT, we only tested 1 car a day, and only in good weather. (there were no drives in the rain or snow.) Over all, there may have been 300 or so cars that were audited. I would think someone at Ford world headquarters could track an audit car, but it would be a big task, and as it was an internal audit, it wouldn't be made public anyway. Any paper work involved would have been filed away somewhere, or destroyed when the program ended. The first 50 cars we built were taken to the proving grounds, and tested there. There was a special letter stating this included with each of the 50 cars tested.
As I mentioned, we put mileage stickers on the cars we drove as the speedometers were always connected, but if the dealer had put more on it, they might just pitch the sticker.
Pockets, can you imagine they only paid us the same as everyone else!!
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