Ford's new Italian Horse-Eater

      I am sure that by now, almost all of you have heard that Ford is going to be releasing a third generation of the Ford GT.  If you haven't, well then let me be the first to introduce you then.  This car is obviously all new, powered by a twin turboed V6, and it's looks and sounds are indescribable. Just look and you can see what I mean


The blue car in the front is the new model, with the blue car in the middle being the one that was made in the early 2000's and the one in the background was the original car in the 1960's.  When the new car was released, it was evident that many new things were added to the car, but the designers still kept the car to it's heritage.  The iconic hood scoops and the overall body outline are the same, bu the new car uses many new technologies to set itself apart.  For example, the entire body of the car is made from carbon fiber and it is only available with an automatic transmission instead of a manual. This new car also has an active deploying spoiler that doubles as an air-brake, similar to the Bugatti Veyron and the Lexus LFA.  This spoiler, coupled with the massive carbon ceramic brakes allows the car to stop faster than any other Ford GT before it.  The dash board also doubles as the cross-plane support for the front of the cabin tub.  This doubling of form and function has also made the Ford GT one of the lightest supercars out there, and when you couple that with a 600+ horsepower eco-boost engine, I think it is safe to say that this is a 200 MPH car, possibly capable of much higher speeds.

      You may be asking, why now? Well, the 50th anniversary of when the original Ford GT swept the 24 hours of LeMans race after Ferrari dropped a deal with Ford, the engineers at Ford thought that it may be a good time to bring the beast back from the dead.  And so they have, with a GT-class race car ready to go for this year's LeMans race, we will see if Ford can pull it off again.