Time sure passes quickly when you think of it as has been almost a year since Portage presented a definitive rendition of its mid-motor supercar. Toward the beginning of December 2022, the Blue Oval shocked us all when it released the GT Mk IV grew solely for the track. The V6 EcoBoost monster has at last disclosed its presentation at the Speed Invitational occasion at the Sonoma Raceway in California where participants had the joy of seeing the opened up GT in real life.
It’s an advancement of the Mk II sent off in mid-2019 for $1.2 million yet this one is significantly more costly as it has an eye-watering retail cost of $1.7 million. Regardless of its galactic sticker price, Passage has a greater number of requests than the 67 units it means to create, so the fortunate future proprietors are being hand-picked.
While its ancestor snuck up all of a sudden, the remainder of the GT breed conveys a gigantic 800 hp. In any case, it didn’t involve the full power during its most memorable public excursion as Scott Maxwell, Multimatic Improvement Driver, began the out lap in motor mode 1 with 500 hp and changed to mode 2 with 700 hp.
He makes sense of that on the grounds that the track is twisty and has restricted corners, it wasn’t the right setting to utilize motor mode 3 that would’ve opened the full 800 hp. Scott Maxwell took YouTuber Shmee on a visit through the GT Mk IV with its stripped-out lodge, full roll confine, and a couple of container seats. Gathered by hand in Canada by Multimatic, the track-just supercar has a carbon fiber longtail body with a prolonged wheelbase to respect the first 1967 legend that won 24 Hours of Le Monitors.
While the aformentioned Mk II had a seven-speed double grasp transmission adjusted from the street vehicle, the Mk IV purposes a tailor made six-speed Xtrac hustling transmission for even faster stuff shifts. For a vehicle that has a motor with the letters “eco” in it, this twin-super EcoBoost sure sounds stunningly clearly. It’s important the Mk IV has Multimatic Versatile Spool Valve (ASV) dampers, Michelin dashing slicks, and creates 2,400 pounds (1,088 kilograms) of downforce at 150 mph (241 km/h).
It makes so much downforce that if “feels adhered to the ground in an orderly fashion,” as per Scott Maxwell. He proceeds to say, “it nearly kills the vibe of speed” while you’re doing near 186 mph (300 km/h) in light of the fact that the vehicle feels strong and “stuck to the ground.” Shmee had the chance to back up the driver in the GT’s last curtain call, and kid, the vehicle is by all accounts an outright track creature.
