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#findanother — The Cars You Can't Replicate
The sweet spot isn’t new or old. It’s that fleeting moment in between, and more people are starting to realise it.
April 13, 2026
One of the showstopper's of this year's Season Opener at Donington has gone on to make history at The Green Hell.
At events like Season Opener and Secret Meet, it’s hard to choose favourites when there are hundreds of supercars, classics and racing thoroughbreds you might only see once in your lifetime, but there are some that raise your eyebrows more than others when they come into view.
One of those for me at this year’s Season Opener was the Ford GT Mk IV — a limited-run, track-only evolution of the latest GT. 800hp from a twin-turbo V6, Multimatic Adaptive Spool Valve suspension, extended wheelbase for high-speed stability and a full ‘longtail’ carbon body designed for nothing more than extreme downforce (over 1,000kg at 150mph). This is a serious machine that could be thrown straight into the Le Mans 24 Hours, and the way it looks alone is enough to cement it in your memory.
Little did we know when we were up close and personal with it in the paddock of Donington Park, and watching it tear around the Melbourne Hairpin, that just a week later, it would be making history at the Nürburgring.
The GT Mk IV is officially the fastest American OEM to ever lap the Nürburgring Nordschleife. And it’s not even close. A time of 6:15.977 set by Frédéric Vervisch — a man who knows the place better than most people know their own commute — makes it over 33 seconds quicker than the previous reigning American, the 1,250hp, all-wheel-drive Corvette ZR1X.
Not only does that make it the fastest American. It’s also the fastest ICE-only car, and the third fastest of any car, ever, behind the ID.R Pikes Peaks Racer and the Porsche 919 Hybrid Evo. The big difference? This is a car you can actually buy, which is slightly absurd when you think about it.
Don’t get me wrong, this is not a road car, and it isn’t pretending to be one. This is a track-only, no-apologies, no-filter machine. Only 67 are being produced by Multimatic, with most already reserved through an application process similar to that of the roadgoing GT, with a price of $1.7 - 1.8 million USD.
There’s something quite fitting about this happening now, too, being 10 years since the modern Ford GT won at 24 Hours of Le Mans, and 60 years since the original Ford GT40 started Ford’s Le Mans domination.
We knew a couple of weeks ago at Donington we were looking at something special, something we’d never seen before, but now we realise we were looking at something operating on a completely different level — a piece of history.
