The second GT of this century marked the end of Ford's combustion supercar era in suitably awesome style 😮
Note for reference: car weight and power data are hard to pin down with absolute certainty. For consistency, we use the same source for all our guides. We hope the data we use is right more often than it’s wrong. Our advice is to treat it as relative rather than definitive.The GT feels mechanically special.
We know of only one recall carried out on 2018MY cars to rectify a hydraulic fluid leak that had the potential to cause a fire. There has also been a report of a slight exhaust rattle at idle and on the overrun when dropping down into a lower gear. There’s a veil of secrecy around NFGT running costs. Oil change services carried out by a GT-approved dealer will cost around £500, which seems acceptable when you relate it to the cost of the vehicle.
OE tyres were Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2s. Dropping the ride height didn’t drop your track times but it noticeably lifted your perception of how your steering wheel and brake pedal commands were being carried out, which a committed and engaged driver might prefer to a couple of tenths off their lap time. All the GT’s body panels were made of carbon fibre and much of the metal used in its construction was aluminium.
As noted earlier the GT didn’t accommodate you, you accommodated it. Six-footers could fit into one, but if they were wearing a crash helmet it would be rubbing against the roof unless they slumped down as far as they could in the driver’s seat, which by the way was always on the left. The luggage space behind the engine was both tiny and hot. We’re going to go out on a limb and say that it wouldn’t take a full-face helmet, even when the case for the battery charger and tyre sealant was removed.
Although the gen-one GT of 2005-06 will always outnumber the final number of gen-two NFGTs sold by a factor of around three to one, even when the final 67 Mk IVs are added to the tally to take the total of NFGTs up to around 1,400 units, the fact is that Ford always planned to sell more of those first GT40 homages. Once the initial excitement had died down they were a relatively tough sell, not helped by Clarkson’s well-publicised travails with his one .
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