I found it really interesting that the blind spot warning technology has been around as long as it has but we've only started to see this technology be implemented into production cars during the 2010s.
I jumped into the comment section to see if anyone picked up on that as well. I knew about the GT90 as a kid but never knew about the blind spot detection until today when I watched this video.
Theres lots of stuff like this if you look at cars of that era. My 03 corvette had Magnetic shocks and a heads-up display, that car started production in 97...
The GT90 is really cool, but i honestly think it wouldn’t have been the success the 2005 GT was. Remember the ford GT sold in huge numbers and was highly praised and I’m not sure the GT90 would have done the same, to me it seems a bit to wild to really be as successful as the ford GT. But who knows? Maybe they would have sold even more.
@@gordonfischer8484 it was way too expensive for the time and from what little was disclosed about the project it needed way more work in order to be properly refined, and the costs were just too much to make it worth the work. It's a shame that it never entered into production, but in the end they made the better choice by making the GT instead.
@@TotallyNotASpy1I agree, I can see how it would have been to expensive just by looking at the power plant: 4 turbos on a v12 to make the same power as the v8 with supercharger on the GTX1
This car was way ahead of its time. One of the best concepts visually I’ve ever seen for it’s time in my opinion. The Bugatti Veyron before Bugatti. Shame this gorgeous car never saw the light of day.
@@user-xt1mw6vm3y The EB110 was a proper Bugatti, and I believe the Veyron was so too. The Veyron in my opinion was a masterpiece, just because it's German doesnt mean it's soulless. I think the Veyron is plenty soulful, I dont see how people look past the absolute mad absurdity of having such an awesome, enormous, bulky engine with FOUR turbochargers -- If they were looking to make something soulless and fast, they would have never built the ludicrous engine that is the Bugatti 16.4 W16. Not to mention they definitely took inspiration from not only the original Bugattis, but the EB110 as well. The W16 engine spiritually succeeds the crazy Straight-8 engines commonly used in race cars back in the day, and the four turbochargers were a key takeaway from the EB110. It's unnecessarily excessive, and in my opinion thats what gives it its own unique character. To me, not every car needs a V10 or a V12 or whatever extremely overdone engine (no offense) to be soulful.
I love when American brands actually put some real effort into their cars, it gives me pride when I see something like these concepts and their eventual progression into real cars
No it doesn't?!😂 It's the most 1990's thing I've ever seen. Look at the blue interior and tinted windows, the angled sharp edges, the entire exhaust design, the headlights. That's like saying the rolling embodiment of the 80's (the Countach) is timeless. Awesome looking and "futuristic design language" yes. Timeless? Definitely fckn not😅 The F1 is timeless, so is the OG GT40. Something has to be a bit boring and generic for it to be truly timeless.
"Sit down for this. 720 brake horsepower... by far the most powerful car in the world." Between that and the huge body roll on these top-of-the-line performance cars, you really get a sense of how far we've come in 30 years.
The original GT40 is legendary for a reason. It's an extremely tough act to follow. This was actually one of the more successful attempts, and it shows just how great the 2004 version was.
I loved this car so much when I was a kid, I saved up my money and waiting for some shop to stock and after months, I finally found one. I still have it to this day, if I was ever going to build a kit car, I'd make it look like this, the design looks timeless.
It would get it's ass handed to it by the likes of the Rimac Nevera, even the model S plaid would probably humble it. Times have moved on this kind of car is a thing of the past.
The F1 made 621 hp if i'm correct. So yeah, this would only make 99 hp more, and it needs two huge turbo's for that. Anyway, no engine comes close to the Formula 1 derived 60-valve V12 in the mistaken masterpiece that is the Ferrari F50.
@@DolleHengstyou haven’t seen the engines cosworth produced for the Aston Martin Valkyrie or the Gordon Murray T.50. The engine can rev to 12,100rpm and is near 700hp naturally aspirated.
It looks pretty good right now 2020s. Im really blown away by the interior the styling and color is pretty much what supercars are doing right now especially the dash cluster looks like it should be in cars coming out now
I didn't know the show existed until 2002. That car was way ahead of it's time. Man, J.C. looked young and lean back then. A lot easier for him to get into the cars back then. Love the man. Cheers from America.
I was about 14 and started reading Motortrend magazine. The Supra, RX-7, NSX, 3000GT VR-4, and 300ZX were all featured in the first issue I ever picked up and that’s what got me reading. I thought it didn’t get better than those machines until the GT90 and Cosworth RS were featured a few months later. The 90’s were truly a different time. That decade produced some of the most beautiful and interesting machines.
You didn't think it got any better until the gt90 and rs cosworth cane along..? Is that supposed to be a joke 🤣 Ford are absolutely shite, always have been, always will be.
"[...] the Jaguar XJ220 with a stopped of 213 miles per hour, that was the fastest car in the world, a record it held for about 6 minutes, then came the McLaren F1, top speed? 231 miles per hour." Certified Jeremy Clarkson quote moment
I wonder if the engineers ever decided to close those wastegates and give it a try? Also remember this is (minus the tubrocharging) what the XJ220 was originally meant to be - including the power. Its a shame this didn't get made but I can see why not. In those days there was a lot of competition and the reality is its unlikely it would be able to see which way an McLaren F1 went apart from on a very long straight line. Gordan Murray probably put more effort into getting the steering right in the F1 than went into this whole project.
Quite possibly the most amazing design study Ford's ever done. So spectacular looking, even almost 30 years later. Still looks fresh today. They used that 'new edge' design language on a couple models in the later '90s, applied to the first gen Focus and the 1999-2004 Mustangs. But it died there.
I'm not going to lie all the legendary cars at the beginning and driving made me laugh out loud🔥🔥🔥 it's so cool to see those beasts running like that, boy I love cars and seeing videos about these legendary cars makes me love them more👍👍
I played NFS2. I remember this car quite well. But now, is it just me, or anybody else sees, that GT90 looks kind of the template for Bugaatti Veyron? Plus the specs also have similarities. 4 turbos?
The 1991 Bugatti EB110 was a Quad Turbo V12. Bugatti did it well before Ford did. I think they were the first to do it as well. So it's more like Ford copied Bugatti.
@@davidgalea6113 why would he be? they dont make anything particularly good and the interior in most of their cars look like absolute trash, like a kid designed it. horrible. giga meh brand, nobody would care if it dissapeared
5:43 he makes a joke "there's always the Fiesta Diesel to look forward to" little did he know the power of the mighty Duratorq TDCi unit that would land in the Ford Mondeo, the pinnacle of automotive engineering.
Sad this is sitting in a small private museum in a very small town here in OK. They haven't taken care of it. It doesn't run any longer, and the interior is torn and wore out. Very sad. I want to get it and restore it
The tires had GT90 written in the tread. Hilarious. Clarkson wasn't so generous with his praise about the GT90 a few years later on post 2000 Top Gear (SE03EP01). Clarkson said, "I actually drove this and it was horrid. Had a top speed of 40 and it handled like it was in a cartoon."
I feel like since it was basically a 30 year old anniversary model, then might as well should've just named it the GT3 instead of 90. 🤷♂️ But aside from that, nowadays the closest design to that beauty is the Ferrari SF90 Stradale with a name that's similar to the GT90, ironically.
if a bugatti engineer was working at ford in the 90s, this is what you get. I remember having a model of this car as a kid, the only ford licensed product I've ever owned. The concept corvette with the full glass top/canopy was another cool car back in the day.
@vitof.4626 yeah I think it's more for me that the 959 is often left out and it is the first unofficial 200 mph car . Only a year or 18 months older than the F40 . And porsche always under report their stats like the 911 turbos that are always quicker to 60 than claimed and very often have more hp than claimed too . And ferrari are usually very accurate but have been known to be a bit ambitious sometimes with stats (rarely can happen)! There were a good few people back in the day ( borris Becker famously) who hit 200 and even 203/204 in 959's on the autobhan before the F40 was even released, but don't get me wrong I love both cars a lot and the F40 is the king 😉
