The second-generation Ford GT is a road car that exists mostly to justify a race car. Revealed in 2015 and built from 2017 by motorsport specialist Multimatic in Markham, Ontario, it is a carbon-fibre-monocoque supercar powered — controversially — by a 3.5-litre twin-turbo EcoBoost V6 rather than a V8. It launched at 647 hp (raised to 660 hp for 2020), runs to 60 mph in about three seconds and tops out at 216 mph, which made it the fastest Ford production car ever at launch. Its purpose was to homologate the racing GT that won the GTE-Pro class at Le Mans in 2016, 50 years after the GT40's 1966 victory.
Everything about it is track-first: a narrow teardrop cockpit with fixed seats and moving pedals, pushrod suspension that drops and stiffens in Track mode, and one of the most aggressive active-aero setups on any road car, with a deployable rear wing that doubles as an airbrake. Ford did not simply sell it — buyers had to apply and be selected, and signed a 24-month no-resale contract (the one John Cena broke, and got sued for). Roughly 1,350 were planned across an extended 2017–2022 run, most in a long list of heritage and special editions.
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Because the road car was built to homologate a race car, and the twin-turbo 3.5-litre EcoBoost V6 suited the packaging and motorsport rules. It was a deliberate and divisive choice over a V8 — but it makes 647 hp (660 from 2020), enough for 216 mph, the fastest Ford ever at launch.
Both, depending on year. The 2017–2019 cars are rated 647 hp; for 2020 Ford raised it to 660 hp via a revised calibration, gallery-cooled pistons and higher-energy ignition coils (lessons from the track-only MkII). Torque stayed 550 lb-ft throughout.
It was hand-assembled by motorsport firm Multimatic in Markham, Ontario — not on a Ford line — at roughly one car per day. Ford originally planned about 1,000 (250 a year for four years), then extended the run by two years and ~350 cars, for roughly 1,350 through 2022.
Ford ran an application/selection process rather than open ordering, and winners signed a contract barring resale for 24 months to deter flipping. When WWE's John Cena sold his almost immediately for about $1.54M, Ford sued him; he settled and Ford donated the proceeds to charity.
The whole program existed for it. The racing GT won the LMGTE-Pro class at the 2016 24 Hours of Le Mans — the No. 68 car of Joey Hand, Sébastien Bourdais and Dirk Müller — exactly 50 years after the GT40's overall win in 1966.
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