Ford Motor Co. may have saved its best special edition GT for last.
The automaker is ending the third-generation supercar’s production run with a hyper-limited 2023 GT Mk IV track-only variant boasting 800 hp and a $1.7 million price tag.
Ford will make just 67 Mk IVs, an homage to the original 1967 Mk IV track car. As is the case will all GTs, the Mk IV will be hand-built by supplier Multimatic in Canada.
“Multimatic’s brief was to create the most extreme final version of the Ford GT, and the Mk IV is the outcome,” Larry Holt, executive vice president at Multimatic Special Vehicle Operations Group, said in a statement. “A unique larger displacement engine, proper racing gearbox, stretched wheelbase and truly radical body has resulted in an unprecedented level of performance. We are proud to have been a part of the third-generation GT from its inception to this amazing swan song and consider it a significant chapter in Multimatic’s history.”
The vehicle is equipped with a unique twin-turbo EcoBoost engine, a racing transmission, an aero-focused exterior design and a chassis with longer wheelbase for greater on-track handling.
Ford says GT “road car production” will be discontinued by the end of December and that it will run the assembly line one last time for the Mk IV early next year.
Customer selections for the 67 Mk IV models will be confirmed in the first quarter of 2023, and deliveries will begin in late spring.