The Ford GT90 introduced the company’s “New Edge” design language in 1995. Ford unveiled the dramatic mid-engine concept at the Detroit Auto Show as a modern spiritual successor to the GT40 racing cars.
The GT90 featured sharply intersecting body surfaces, a carbon-fiber monocoque, and a twin-turbocharged 6.0-liter V12 engine concept. Its styling used crisp geometric lines rather than the rounded forms common in many early-1990s vehicles. Ford later applied the New Edge theme to production cars such as the Ka, Cougar, and Focus.
The GT90 was a concept, not a production supercar. It is often confused with the Ford GT, which entered production nearly a decade later and used a different design approach inspired more directly by the original GT40. The GT90’s importance is therefore chiefly stylistic and technological: it previewed a Ford design vocabulary and demonstrated ambitious performance engineering in a one-off show car.