Forty years after the Ford Motor Company successfully took on Ferrari at Le Mans with the original GT40 race car, the company fesurrects the mid-engine supercar as the 2005 Ford GT, built as part of the automaker’s 100th anniversary celebrations.

America’s sports car might be the Chevy Corvette, but with the arrival of the new 2005 Ford GT, Michigan finally produces a true supercar. Hand-built in limited quantities, the mid-engined GT aims to cement Ford’s status as a global automaker capable of building every new car from commercial trucks and affordable grocery-getters to lustworthy exotics.