Everyone’s favored GT (the Ford GT to the inexperienced) will certainly have one last special-edition model prior to it’s put out to field. The 2022 Ford GT LM Edition, inspired by the red as well as blue livery of the 2016 Le Mans winner, honors Ford’s Le Mans victories and also heritage.
Currently, if you’re shocked that the Ford GT was still about, you’re not the only one. Seems Ford has a practice of putting a version in hibernation after a few years, and so numerous various other lorries have actually taken the spotlight that it’s easy to fail to remember that Ford currently makes a supercar.
Painted in Liquid Silver, the Ford GT LM permits customers to choose from revealed red or blue colored carbon fiber highlights throughout the vehicle, consisting of a matching motorist’s seat. There likewise is a 3D titanium-printed double exhaust with a special cyclonic style inside the suggestions.
The interior uses modern Alcantara-wrapped carbon fiber seats with the previously mentioned red or blue chauffeur’s seat plus ebony passenger seat with stitching that matches the driver’s seat’s color. The instrument panel is covered in Ebony leather and also Alcantara, while the console, air vent signs up and also lower A-pillars are carbon fiber with a matte surface.
Certainly, this being a Ford GT, it is powered by a 3.5-liter, 660-horsepower twin-turbo EcoBoost V6. Lots of people poo-poohed the lack of V8 when this generation of the GT stood for the 2017 version year but, considering the market today, this is no longer uncommon.
In total, Ford will have generated nine special-edition GT street cars and trucks of this generation including:
- 2022 Ford GT Holman Moody Heritage Edition honoring Ford’s 1966 Le Mans 1-2-3 move as well as the group that engineered it; 21 developed
- 2022 Ford GT Alan Mann Heritage Edition recognizing the No. 16 Alan Mann Ford GT MK I light-weight speculative prototype that helped lead the way for the 1-2-3 sweep at the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans; 30 constructed
- 2022 Ford GT ’64 Prototype Heritage Edition recognizing Ford GT’s roots and also the earliest 5 original Ford GT prototypes; 27 constructed
- 2021 Ford GT ’66 Daytona Heritage Edition honoring the Ford GT MK II No. 98 race cars and truck that offered Ford a 1-2-3-5 dominance at Daytona in 1966; 50 built
- 2020 Ford GT ’69 Gulf Livery Heritage Edition recognizing the Ford GT40 MK I No. 6 race vehicle that was victorious at Le Mans in 1969; 50 built
- 2019 Ford GT ’68 Gulf Livery Heritage Edition honoring Ford GT40 MK I No. 9 race cars and truck that overcame at Le Mans in 1968; 50 built 2018 Ford GT ’67 Heritage Edition recognizing Ford GT40 MK IV No. 1 race vehicle that was victorious at Le Mans in 1967; 39 constructed 2017 Ford GT ’66 Heritage Edition recognizing Ford GT40 MK II No. 2 that won at the
- 1966 Le Mans race; 27 developed
Only 20 of the 2022 Ford GT LM Edition will certainly be made. At the end of the design year, the GT will certainly be stopped. Or go into hibernation, if Ford’s record is any kind of indication.