It may seem hard to believe, but 2015 was a full decade ago at this point – which means we’re starting to celebrate milestones that don’t really seem like they happened in the distant past. This includes the 10-year anniversary of the debut of the last-generation Ford GT at the 2015 Detroit Auto Show, a car that followed the original GT40, as well as the first-generation Ford GT that launched for the 2005 model year. Recently, Multimatic – a long-time Ford partner that built the Ford GT at its facility in Markham, Ontario, Canada, reminded of that fact and provided some cool pictures of the sports car throughout the years, to boot.
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Following the debut of the latest Ford GT at the Detroit Auto Show, some time passed until the all-new supercar entered production in 2016 and began shipping out in December for the 2017 model year. As most are well aware, not everyone got the privilege of being able to order a new Ford GT, however – rather, the automaker launched an application process, which seemed to favor the rich, famous, and individuals with social media influence, though in all fairness, most of us common folk couldn’t afford one, anyway.
Production of the last Ford GT was originally slated to end in 2022, but was later extended into 2023, and the last example of the supercar was delivered to its lucky owner early that year – chassis number N260, which was finished in Antimatter Blue. Since then, Ford and Multimatic have been busy working on a number of other cool projects, including the V8-powered Ford Bronco DR. The new Ford Mustang GTD is more of a spiritual successor to the Ford GT, however, as it’s also a limited-production supercar that is only being sold to a select lucky folks via application process – and it just set a blazing quick lap time at the Nurburgring to prove its worth in that regard.
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Multimatic, the modern version of Holman-Moody.
Ironically, so did the S550 Mustang platform. Not much has changed since then either. Some minor updates, but essentially that platform is still the same.