Ford Discontinues GT At The End Of 2022

Launched in 2016 as a way to commemorate the first victory at the 24h of Le Mans, the current generation of the Ford GT will cease production in December.

The American giant's super sports car, born for competition, says goodbye, with the guarantee of having continued a successful legacy.

With a brilliant start to its career, having won the competition for which it was designed in its first year of existence, the current Ford GT will cease production at the end of 2022.

The current generation of the American icon was launched in 2016 and won, in its first year, the 24h of Le Mans, with Sébastien Bourdais, Joey Hand and Dirk Müller at the wheel. In 3rd place was another Ford GT, in a race that reignited the rivalry between Ferrari and Ford.

According to motor1, the Ford GT is now entering the final phase of production of the last 250 units, before the actual farewell. By that time, Multimatic, the Canadian company that builds the Detroit giant's super sports car, will have manufactured a total of 1350 units of the model.

The career of the GT40 (named after the model's height, in inches) began to take shape when Ford, impressed by Ferrari's great success at Le Mans in the 1950s and 1960s, tried to buy the Italian manufacturer.

The purchase was almost complete, but it failed, and since then Ford has done everything in its power to beat Ferrari in the competition.

After years of hard work and an inauspicious start, Ford was finally able to surpass the Cavallino Rampante mark and consolidate itself as a legend at Le Mans, with the help of talents such as Carol Shelby, Ken Miles, Bruce McLaren or Mario Andretti.

The GT40 would still win the 1967, 1968 and 1969 editions, even having been forced to abandon the 7.0-liter V8 engine it originally had in the last two years.

There is still no information about a possible new generation of the model.