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Uncle Sam’s Exotics: American Supercars That Scorch The Roads

Ford GT (2016 to 2022)

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We’ve already featured the Ford GT on our list, but we’ll discuss it again since the 2004 to 2006 model is a different beast than the current GT which debuted in 2016. First, these two cars only share the name and nothing else. While the previous generation was a superfast road car, the current model is a racing car for the streets full of competition parts, tricks, and active aerodynamics. Ford wanted a car that would give them triumph at the 24 Hours of Le Mans for the first time after 1969. The new GT was a racing car from the start and a road car second. It competed in the 2016 Le Mans and won its class precisely 50 years after the first legendary GT40 win (via Ford).

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The engine of the new GT is exciting; it is a 3.5-liter EcoBoost V6 with 656 hp, which gives the car a 0 to 60 mph time of 2.8 seconds and a top speed of 216 mph. What is interesting about it is the fact that the GT’s engine is pretty much the same as the 3.5 EcoBoost V6 from the F-150 pickup truck. Of course, there are a lot of different details, but the basic architecture, block, displacement, and turbo technology are the same.

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Vukasin Herbez
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