title: John Coletti
text: # John Coletti
  
  O. John Coletti is an American automobile engineer. He worked for the American automaker Ford Motor Company in the company's performance division, and later was the COO and president of EcoMotors International until his retirement on March 15, 2013.
  
  He was responsible, as director of that company's Special Vehicle Team (SVT) group, for a number of special performance cars in the 1990s and 2000s, including the Ford Focus SVT, SVT Contour, Ford F-150 Lightning and the Ford Mustang Cobra. He later spearheaded development and production of the Ford GT supercar.
  
  Since retirement, he has been the managing director of Automotive Performance Partners.
  
  Production vehicles programs under Coletti's leadership include:
  
      1991 Mustang Feature Car
      1992 Mustang Feature Car Yellow w/Chrome Wheels
      1992 Mustang Feature Car Monochromatic White
      1992 Tempo V6
      1994 SN95 Mustang
      1994 Mustang Indy Pace Car
      1995 Mustang Cobra R "351W"
      1998 SVT Contour
      1999 F150 SVT Lightning
      2000 Mustang Cobra R "5.4L-4V"
      2002 Focus ST170 (European Market)
      2002 SVT Focus "Piranha"
      2003 SVT Cobra "Terminator"
      2004 Ford GT "Petunia"
  
  Concept vehicle programs that were developed, but never saw production, include:
  
      1993 Mach III Mustang
      1994 BOSS 10L Mustang
      1995 Ford GT90
      1995 Mustang CJ-R
      1996 Contour "Profile"
      1996 Taurus SHO Station Wagon "Gumby"
      1996 SVT Thunderbird
      1997 Mustang Super Stallion
      1998 Escort CT120 Turbo
      1998 Ranger "Lightning Bolt"
      1998 Supercharged Thunderbird
      2000 SVE Ford Focus "Irene"
      2005 SVT Lightning "Tomcat"
      2006 SVT T/C Focus "Panama"
      2006 SVT Mustang Cobra "Condor"
  
  He is also credited with saving the rear wheel drive Mustang in the early 1990s, when it was to be eliminated for cost reasons. Coletti retired from SVT in 2004. He and his wife Judy are the parents of four children.
  
  