When your car is already so exclusive that prospective customers must apply to buy one, apparently there is just one way of making it even more desirable: Make an even crazier version for exactly one person.
Now, it's not like the Ford GT needed any improvement. It just walloped Ferrari, Aston Martin, Corvette, and Porsche to win its class at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. But in the supercar realm, there's always someone who wants more.
Ford delivers it with the Ford GT '66 Heritage Edition, a black and silver homage to the GT40 that swept the Le Mans podium half a century ago. The "standard" 2017 GT runs $400,000 or so, and squeezes more than 600 horsepower from a twin-turbocharged 3.5-liter V6 engine. The special edition boasts the same specs but gets comfier seats, a leather-wrapped steering wheel, and blue webbing on the seat belts to match those of the the '66 car. For bonus points, Ford is making each 20-inch wheel from a single piece of forged aluminum, which is painted gold. And it's exposing more of the car's carbon fiber. Because carbon fiber is cool.
No word on what the car costs or who'll get to drive it home. Rest assured it will require a very big check—and a very good application.
