O. John Coletti was an automobile

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 engineer at the Ford Motor Company

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, and is currently the COO and president of EcoMotors International.

He was responsible, as manager of that company's Special Vehicle Team

Special Vehicle Team

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 (SVT) group, for a number of special performance cars in the 1990s and 2000s, including the Ford Focus SVT, SVT Contour

Ford Contour

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, Ford F-150 Lightning, and the Ford Mustang

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 Cobra. He later spearheaded development and production planning of the Shelby GT500

Shelby Mustang

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 Mustang and Ford GT

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 supercar

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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.