This is the one-off 1995 Ford GT90. The story of the GT90 starts in 1994 when Ford’s head of their special vehicle team (SVT), John Coletti, assembled a team to reimagine the iconic Ford GT40 and bring the spirit of that car into the highly competitive 1990’s. During the time of the GT90’s development, Ford owned Jaguar so they used the suspension and 5-speed manual gearbox from the XJ220. As with most 90’s concepts that looked great and over-promised, Ford announced just a few years after the cars debut that it was only to be used as a rolling testbed for future technologies and a way of debuting their new edge design philosophy. The controversy surrounding the GT90 is due to the fact that Ford showed a lot of promise packing an extremely powerful engine into an architecturally beautiful design, and then stripping that all away from interested buyers by telling them the car won’t see production. Maybe one day Ford will come to their senses and awake this sleeping beast! The car is said to be held current day on display at the Hajek Motorsports Museum in Ames, Oklahoma. The design for the GT90 concept was created by stylist James Hope, and the platform of the car was developed using an aluminium and carbon fiber monocoque chassis with steel for extra torsional rigidity. Worth noting, the V12 engine used in the GT90 was not only unique to the the car, but the car used to help develop this engine was a Lincoln Town Car as a test mule.
How many made? 1
Engine: The engine was a combination of both a 4.6L V8 with two cylinders removed, combined with another 4.6L Lincoln town car V8 with two cylinders removed, and threw the decapitated two engines into a V12 block and after some serious mechanical work, the final displacement was a quad-turbocharged 6.0L V12 with 720bhp and 660lb-ft of torque!
Debut: 1995 Detroit Auto Show
Top speed: 253mph (claimed)
0-60mph: 3.1 seconds (claimed)
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