Ford to finish manufacturing of $500,000 GT supercar with particular version

DETROIT — Ford Motor will finish manufacturing of its $500,000 GT supercar later this yr with a particular version mannequin paying tribute to the car’s racing heritage.

The Detroit automaker on Wednesday stated the 2022 Ford GT LM Version would be the final mannequin of the third-generation automotive, which was resurrected in 2016 after being a decade out of the market.

Ford stated solely 20 of the GT LM Version automobiles can be produced. Deliveries are scheduled to start this fall with manufacturing wrapping up later this yr, in accordance with the automaker.

“As we shut this chapter of the road-going Ford GT, the GT LM Version gave us an opportunity to inject much more coronary heart and soul from a podium-finishing racecar, furthering the tribute to our 2016 Le Mans win,” Mark Rushbrook, international director of Ford Efficiency Motorsports, stated in a launch.

The GT is a collector’s automotive steeped in racing historical past. This GT LM Version pays tribute to the third-generation supercar’s general win on the 2016 Le Mans 24 Hours in addition to Ford sweeping the rostrum to beat Ferrari — as portrayed in “Ford v. Ferrari” in 2019 — on the well-known French race in 1966.

The present-generation GT was a shock reveal on the 2015 North American Worldwide Auto Present in Detroit. Ford saved the automotive a secret even inside the firm, solely permitting choose executives and workers to work on it in a nondescript basement room in a constructing close to its headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan.

Only one,350 of the third-generation GTs — powered by a twin-turbocharged, 3.5-liter EcoBoost V-6 engine with 660-horsepower and 216 mph prime velocity — had been produced by provider and contract producer Multimatic Inc. of Markham, Ontario, in Canada.

A Ford spokesman declined to touch upon the opportunity of a fourth-generation GT sooner or later. He additionally declined to touch upon pricing of the most recent restricted version mannequin, saying GT pricing has began round $500,000.