The Ford GT

At Le Mans in June 2015, Ford unveiled their plan to return to the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2016 with a factory-supported, four-car effort operating as Ford Chip Ganassi Racing. The car's debut at the 2016 24 Hours of Daytona on January 30–31 was promising finishing seventh and ninth in class but was no where near where they wanted to be at Le Mans. After months of development and 50 years to the day Ford swept the podium in their GT40 at Le Mans over the likes of Ferrari their time had come reclaim their spot on the throne. After an extremely hard fought battle the Number 68 Ford GT finished 1st in the GTE-Pro class. To conform with FIA regs Ford needed to produce and sell a limited run of road legal GT's. 

The road cars are powered by a newly designed 3.5 liter twin-turbocharged EcoBoost V6 engine making 647 hp and 550 lb·ft of torque. With its carbon fiber monocoque chassis design, limited amenities and a Gorilla Glass windshield Ford aimed to build a true Racecar for the road and would exhibit one of the best power-to-weight ratios of any production car. The car also has racing inspired pushrod suspension, active aerodynamics and a track-mode that drops the car 5cm and raises its rear wing that doubles as an air brake. The flying buttresses linking the roof to each rear fender house the cars intercoolers, create downforce and direct air flow to the rear spoiler. The air that passed through the fender-mounted intercoolers then flows above each rear wheel to the GT's tail, where it exits through the centers of the taillights. The Ford GT's design is a testament to the inseparable dynamic that a cars visual appearance is 100% guided by aerodynamics. After all it is a racecar for the road.

Beginning in December 2016, Ford plans to build the GT at a rate of one car per day in its new, low-volume assembly facility at Multimatic in Markham, Ontario until October 2020.