Ford Gt Mk Iv Is The Fastest American Car To Lap The Nürburgring, And The Third Fastest Car Ever

The Ford GT Mk IV is now nan fastest American car ever to lap nan Nürburgring. I won't lie, I wholly forgot astir nan Mk IV, since it came retired successful 2023 and isn't road-legal, built solely for on-track driving. But aft a fewer quiet years, Ford took its astir utmost supercar to nan Nürburgring to group a frighteningly speedy 6:15.977 thigh time, which not only makes it nan fastest American car ever astir nan Green Hell, but nan 3rd fastest car of immoderate kind.

Ford built nan GT Mk IV together pinch Multimatic, nan Canadian racing parts supplier whose adaptive spool valve suspension is 1 of nan main reasons why nan GT truthful tin connected track. The Mk IV besides has a longer wheelbase than nan roadgoing GT, a afloat carbon-fiber body, an perfectly tremendous rear wing, capable hood louvers to make an '80s musculus car jealous, and a circumstantial racing gearbox. Oh, and I almost forgot nan 800 horsepower from its twin-turbo Ecoboost V6. The caller blistering thigh clip was group by Ford mill driver and two-time 24 Hours of Nürburgring victor Frédéric Vervisch. "The car is an absolute weapon, a existent hold of your will," he said of nan GT Mk IV.

While nan Ford GT Mk IV was disposable to customers — only 67 were group to beryllium built starting successful 2025 and each 1 costs $1.7 cardinal — it isn't road-legal. So it mightiness beryllium nan 3rd fastest car ever astatine nan 'Ring, but it isn't nan fastest road-going car — that's still nan Mercedes-AMG One, which group a clip of 6:29.090. The fastest street-legal American car is nan Corvette ZR1X, pinch a 6:49.275 lap. Although, immoderate observers recently unofficially hand-timed a Ford Mustang GTD going moreover faster, but that's yet to beryllium officially confirmed by Ford. 

Still, it's awesome that nan Ford GT Mk IV hit the all-electric Xiaomi SU7 Ultra Prototype, pinch its carbon-fiber assemblage and 1,527 horsepower, by 7 seconds. The only 2 cars to ever boast faster thigh times than nan GT are nan electrical VW ID.R Pikes Peak racer (6:05.336), and nan Porsche 919 Hybrid Evo (5:19.546). However, since nan VW ID.R is afloat electrical and Porsche 919 Hybrid Evo is, well, an unrestricted hybrid Le Mans racer, nan Ford GT Mk IV besides holds nan grounds for nan fastest purely internal-combustion car ever.