Ford is planning on sharing some big, GT-related news for America’s birthday. On Friday, the company said that it would be making “a special Ford GT supercar announcement” during a dedicated press conference at the 2019 Goodwood Festival of Speed on July 4th.
While that’s the correct date, it’s taking place in the wrong country. But we assume Ford has good reason for that. We’re betting this is some performance-plus variant of the model aimed at achieving enviable lap times. As the Goodwood hill climb is all about the beating a stopwatch, perhaps Ford intends on showing the world what its new car can do.
However, that’s only a guess based entirely on the teaser image’s oversized wing and prominent roof scoop — two items the standard GT lacks. The alternative scenario is that this is a new race car for some, yet unknown, series Ford intends to enter.
Director of Ford Performance Hermann Salenbauch and Multimatic Chief Technical Officer Larry Holt will be the ones to make the July 4th proclamation. The “ultra-high-performance” GT announcement is said to take place at Ford’s stand in the Drift Paddock at 4:45 AM (EDT).
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Am I the only one who’s totally ready for the Ferrari versus Ford movie?
No. I’ve been pulling my hair out in anticipation.
I’m looking forward to it. Should be good.
Meanwhile my young son booed the TV when a Ford won the GTE amateur class at LeMans (before being disqualified). I suspect having shown him the trailer may have caused this behavior, as he now identifies Ford as being in opposition to Ferrari.
I literally have never seen him boo anything before, so I was in hysterics.
They should offer the GT with the GT350’s engine and a six-speed manual. They could charge whatever they want.
Unfortunately not an option http://www.motor1.com/news/301708/hennessey-ford-gt-v8/, I was a bit upset too for my dream car exotic. Now a Carrera GT remains my NA 6spd manual dream exotic
I would bet that it will have a .1 litre larger fuel cell
good one
Thankfully Ferrari’s new SF90 Stradale doesn’t come with a five second penalty whenever a Mercedes has to slam on the brakes and can’t get around you.
” new race car for some, yet unknown, series Ford intends to enter ” ? Pretty much everyone in sports car racing knows its for the upcoming World Endurance Championship “Hypercar” class, where the future rules were recently finalized.
Hypercar?
For a quick and basic overview of the new Hypercar class, see here:
https://www.motorsport.com/wec/news/hypercar-regulations-finalised-2020-21/4473991/
A Hypercar is of course better than a Supercar, but by definition not as good as an Ultracar ;-)
Megacar? Gigacar? And what happened to the SuperDuperTotallyAwesomeCar class?
“SuperDuperTotallyAwesomeCar class?”
That class requires time travel so that the car hits the quarter mile 1 second before you actually start accelerating.
I predict central seating and more turbo whack. BLAMMO! – new car.