Over the weekend, Ford unveiled its first special edition GT supercar, called the Heritage Edition. With an exterior of white, red and bare carbon fiber, it is meant to pay homage to the win of the GT40 Mk II on the 1966 Daytona 24, powered by Ken Miles and Lloyd Ruby.
The win for the GT40 at Daytona is one of the car’s most important victories, as it represented a turning point for the racing program, and served as a warning to Ferrari about what was to come at Le Mans later that year. Miles and Ruby won by more than 30 miles, leading two other GT40s, and excluding an all-Ford stage.
The GT Heritage Edition shares much of the exterior design of the original car, with a blacked out hood section (in carbon fiber instead of the original paint), red side stripes, and asymmetrical red accents on the nose, roof and rear wing. There’s also a “98” side decal, red-painted brake calipers, and gold-painted 20-inch forged aluminum wheels. Power from the twin-turbo 3.5-liter EcoBoost V-6 remains the same, at 660 horsepower and 550 lb-ft of torque.
Buyers of the Heritage Edition can get a “Heritage Upgrade Package” option that includes 20-inch carbon fiber wheels with a red-accented inner center fender, black-painted brake calipers, and “ghosted” # 98 decals.
In addition to the Heritage Edition, Ford has added a new graphics package for the regular GT called the Studio Collection, shown below. Made in a collaboration between Ford and GT’s assembly facility, Multimatic, the graphics can be made in any color the buyer chooses. The company says it will build just 20 GTs with the Studio Collection package by the 2022 model year, so if you’ve in it, you better enter your order soon.
This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported into this site to help users provide their email addresses. You may find more information about this and similar content on piano.io
This comment section is created and maintained by a third party, and imported into this page. You may find more information on their website.
