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Originally Posted by Blipit_
A lot of people fail the realize the new Ford GT is a homologation special. The car only exist for public consumption because of meeting class homologation regs. They are not building the car for street bragging rights. Ford chose the proven race winning ecoboost for a reason, the ecoboost already had major 24hr wins under it's belt in other series. Endurance racing is not about having the biggest engine in the class.
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Googled it and this says differently -
http://www.ibtimes.com/why-fords-gt-...-video-1871242
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So why didn’t Ford stick turbocharges on its current 5.0L V8, for even more power? Packaging. "The V8? Wouldn't fit," Paul Seredynski, manager of Ford global powertrain technology communications, told International Business Times in an interview. "The GT has evolved," he said, referring to the previous two generations of the nameplate. "The original GT40 that won LeMans in 1966 had a 427 (7.0 liter) big block V8," Seredynski said, which was radically different from the second-generation car launched in the 2000s. In 2005, the GT had a 5.4L supercharged V8. The new car follows the downsizing trend -- automakers are proving that you don't need eight cylinders to make a lot of power these days.
Even if Ford could have somehow fit a V8 into the new packaging, it just isn’t the way of the future for many cars, even supercars like this one. Manufacturers have been downsizing their engine lineups for the past few years, trading large, naturally aspirated powerplants for smaller, more efficient turbocharged ones. It’s a trend that, like it or not, is going to continue thanks to strict emissions and fuel economy standards.
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