Ford Cuts Weight On Its GT With the Competition Series

Ford Cuts Weight On Its GT With the Competition Series

Published: February 25, 2017 | By: American Luxury Staff

Only two months after Ford began delivering its GT supercar, the company has unveiled its first special edition variant: the GT Competition.

The Ford GT Competition will be produced in an even more limited, exclusive production run than the run-of-the-mill GT, of course, and will be geared to drivers who want a street-legal race car in their automotive quiver. Air-conditioning, stereo system, cup holders and the like are sacrificed for the sake of reduced weight.

For compensation, the GT Competition gets a Perspex acrylic engine cover and carbon fiber prop rod; the latter keeps weight-balance lower than the regular production GT, improving high-speed and cornering performance. Ford indicates that the glass behind the driver, in the GT Competition, has been replaced by a sheet of Corning’s high-impact Gorilla Glass only half as thick as that used for the windows, windshield and bulkhead of the Standard GT.

The wheels of the GT Competition are fabricated out of carbon fiber, and there are additional carbon fiber cosmetic touches on the Competition model: racing stripe, gloss-finish lower body trim, and exposed trim in the cabin. A titanium exhaust system, the company indicates, offers more weight relief over the regular production Standard GT’s exhaust. Lug nuts are also titanium.

The engine of the GT Competition will remain the same unit used in the Standard GT: the 3.5L V6 with Ford’s proprietary EcoBoost technology. The roll cage and active aerodynamics of the Standard GT also carry over to the Competition model. But finish colors will be special edition: Liquid Blue or Grey, Ingot Silver, Frozen White, Shadow Black and—for the real extroverts out there—Triple Yellow.

Pricing TBD.

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