Though no figures have been placed on the car's overall weight as yet, Ford promises the GT will have "one of the best power-to-weight ratios of any production car."

The new GT has been slated for production in 2016 and promises to once more give the European exotics some serious hurry-up, just as the original GT40 did when it famously went after Ferrari's endurance crown and won the Le Mans 24 Hour race four times in a row from 1966 to 1969.

It's now 14 years since Ford Chairman and CEO Bill Ford announced at the same show in 2002 that Ford would build the GT40 to help celebrate its 100th anniversary.