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The Mustang GT4 is built by Multimatic by the given graces of FoMoCo.
Alternative tuners cannot simply build a GT4 car from road cars without prior approval from the OEM.
Mobs like Ekris, Prospeed et al have built their GT4 cars ahead of many factory customer sports divisions efforts (Audi Sport, AMG Customer sports etc.), but it is unlikely they will ever be able to build up a GT4 car from the same brand again once the manufacturer gets involved themselves.
This occurred in GT3. Reiter can not build Lambo GT3's off the latest model (Huracan) as that was moved in-house - so the R-EX (Gallardo) is them extracting the most from their licence agreement.
With this in play, Tickford can not built an alternative GT4 Mustang, as the FoMoCo licence agreement is with Multimatic only.
Thus the price tag for the GT4 car (whilst prohibitive) is set - complete with the market monopolisation in mind.
This is why small bespoke race car brands, such as the Reiter KTM, Ginetta and Sin - continue to be relevant.
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