GT: Ford’s intoxicating supercar

Ford's latest model does a grand job of living up to the GT's fearsome reputation.

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The new Ford GT has a lot to live up to, says Alistair Weaver in The Sunday Times. The supercar's ancestor, the GT40, humbled Ferrari at Le Mans in 1966 and won again in 1967, 1968 and 1969. The new model has been setting Le Mans alight all over again, winning its class in 2016 in the 24 Hours race, and it's been winning races again this year. Now, it has been tamed for the road. I say "tamed", says Weaver, but really this is no ordinary supercar. It's still very much a racing car, which makes it quite unlike anything else on sale today."It's noisy, brutal, visceral, impractical, beautiful and thoroughly intoxicating."

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