Literally in the figurative sense? Perhaps. Literally in the literal sense? Literally not even.
I never understood this argument. It’s not a muscle car, and its engine was never a big reason for why this car is so well remembered, it’s remembered for beating Ferrari. Four times. Had it have had any other engine the car would have been remembered and respected just the same.
As much as I don't like the idea of Ford putting the Ecoboost V6 into the GT, I've come to accept & understand why. It's a racing car at its heart, all the reviews acknowledge this fact when they drive it. The necessary needs of the race car came first and the V6 was the better decision for Ford. The road car was nothing more than a secondary piece in development that Ford only legalized what it needed to make the race car usable for the street.
The reason I love the GT is its roaring V8 sound which tells me "I mean business" and relentless pulling power coming from the high torque output. I always viewed it as a supercar-muscle hybrid, a car that not only looks fast, but sounds fast aswell. The V6 in the new GT just doesn't cut it for me. I mean, it's fast, but it doesn't sound like the same car anymore...
A V6 in the current GT is what best complimented the racing ruleset that Ford was trying to take advantage of at the time the car was designed.
I'd have preferred headlights similar to those depicted in the render--that rectangular block looks ridiculous.Looks how I expected.
