Ford GT40

The Ford GT40 is one of 571 Ford models in the MotorJury library, the catalogue that sets out to hold every car ever made — production, prototype and concept alike. The record places its introduction in 1964. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Ford GT40 properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1960s were the decade of the pony car, the mid-engined revolution and the birth of the modern hot hatchback's ancestors — engineering advanced faster than in any decade before it. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Porsche Porsche 911, the Plymouth Plymouth Barracuda, the Nissan Nissan Silvia — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Ford GT40 reads like this: the record lists its engine as 255 Cubic inch / CID (4181 cc) V8 engine / V-8 / 289 CID (4737 cc) V-8 / 302 CID (4942 cc) V-8 / 427 CID (6997 cc) V-8; kerb weight is recorded at 1800-2300 lb (1966, Mk IIA); drive goes through Mk1 & Mk3: 5-speed manual / Mk2 & Mk4: 4-speed manual; the layout is MR layout. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the Ford story

Within Ford's own catalogue the Ford GT40 sits alongside the Ford 021C (1999), the Ford Escort (2015), the Ford Comète, the Ford Köln. The record names the Lola Mk6 as its predecessor and the Ford P68 (racing) / Ford GT (street) as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Ron Bradshaw. Assembly is recorded at United Kingdom: Slough (Mk I, Mk II, and Mk III) / United States: Los Angeles (Mk I & Mk II Modifications) and Wixom, Michigan (Wixom Assembly Plant: Mk IV).

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

From catalogue to ownership

What this page cannot yet tell you is what the Ford GT40 costs to live with — that is a different dataset. MotorJury's ownership verdicts are computed from federal complaint and recall records plus EPA economy data, published per model year as the nightly ingest reaches each car. If this model was sold in the United States, its years will surface in the ownership database; browse it live or price any car yourself with the true-cost calculator.