Having owned XR2s in his youth, Doug Scheller had long fantasised about owning another. And then one day, at the age of 45, a fruity citrus hit turned the dream into reality
With a 760bhp supercharged V8, the GT500 is the most powerful production car ever built by Ford, and – no spoiler alert required – it’s a bit of a beast.
The ‘XM’ stood for eXperimental Mercury and like many dream cars of its time, its fate was shrouded in mystery until a resourceful young man found it parked behind a barn, sunk in mud…