2016 Ford GT set to cost £250,000

The new Ford GT – revealed at the Detroit Auto Show – is set to cost at least £250,000 when it arrives in 2016, and Ford will build just 250 a year.

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You might have thought, when the new Ford GT for 2016 was revealed at the Detroit Auto Show in January, that, stunning though it looked, this was going to be a ‘Blue Collar’ Supercar with a proper production run and prices that wouldn’t be completely barking. But it’s not.

Ford has revealed that when the new GT arrives in 2016 – just in time to celebrate Ford’s stunning performance at Le Mans in 1966 when they took the top three spots – it will be priced in the same ball park as the Lamborghini Aventador, which in the UK means a starting price the wrong side of £250,000.

Not only that, unlike the last Ford GT the 2016 Ford GT will be strictly limited in numbers, with just 250 being built a year.

But those willing to stump up a quarter of a million for a Ford do look like they’re going to get something rather special.

Proper supercar looks are indisputable, and Ford is promising 600bhp from a 3.5 litre twin turbo V6 EcoBoost engine, lots of carbon fibre and aluminium, clever suspension,advanced aerodynamics and a raft of technology.

Whether that adds up to a car that is as good as the Lamborghini Aventador, or any of a plethora of established supercars from ‘proper’ supercar makers that undercut it on price, remains to be seen.

But even at £250k, 250 cars a year worldwide isn’t too ambitious a target (Lamborghini sell four times as many Aventadors) so, as a halo project, it seems sure to succeed.