Broken Dreams: Ford GT90. Ford’s dream of returning to the top

When you create a masterpiece, and there’s very little else we can call the Ford GT40, it’s hard to celebrate it with a model that was supposed to replace it in the hearts of enthusiasts. However, in the mid-90s, some 30 years after that famous Le Mans hat-trick in 1966, the board of directors at Ford decided to do just that. The project manager of this arduous task was John Coletti, director of Ford’s Special Vehicles department, who was given very little time to propose something truly unique that was to have gone by the name GT90: the goal was the Detroit Motor Show in January 1995 where it would be accompanied by the claim “The most powerful supercar in the world”.