Perhaps, when you look at the performance figures, this instruction made some sense.

Try these numbers: 0-100 km/h in 3.7 seconds, 0-160 km/h in 7.4 seconds, top speed 330 km/h (electronically limited). It’s powered by a mid-mounted 550hp 5.4 litre V8 with a Roush built supercharger. Fuel efficiency, you don’t want to know (ok I’ll humour you), try 20 l/100km if you’re seriously enjoying the car. That translates to a range of 160km on a full tank.

Come Saturday morning, clear skies and the keys to the Ford GT sitting on the table. Pulling the car out of the garage and into the morning waking sun, the smooth lines and race car aesthetics are something to behold. Quite simply, in ‘candy apple red’ with two fat white racing stripes nose to tail, it is one of the most beautiful and purposeful cars I have ever seen.

The exterior design has been massaged just enough to allow better interior space but not to sacrifice the exterior curves. Its lines flow no matter which angle you approach it. The side profile is perhaps the most striking: the large 19-inch 315 rear tyres filling the arches - making the rear flanks appear to almost bulge over to fit them within their girth.

Pressing the small hidden rubber button on the side releases a wide-swinging door and you immediately notice the cutaway roof section, again a homage to the original race car. The gap in the roof allows you to easily slide across the narrow sill and into the wide cabin.

The leather seats are surprisingly comfortable. They do not hold as tightly as many high-performance cars; let’s call them ‘American-sized’ sports-seats. They have just a simple manual adjustment for the angle; the seat shells being fashioned from every supercar’s friend - carbon fibre.

The interior dials and controls layout are again a tribute to the yesteryear GT40 with functional gauges laid horizontally across the dash. The rev-counter is centrally located and the speedometer is stuck far out on the left, almost on the passenger side as if it’s not important (won’t be looking at that one much then).

The basic switches for fog lights, hazards, etcetera, are laid out neatly in a row across the front of the dash, all made from metal, neatly designed and operating with a solid click.