We all love to see cars in the wind tunnel. Watching air flow over a well-built vehicle is just mesmerizing. But the Ford GT tops them all. It’s this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans 1^st place finisher, and it’s every bit as intelligent as it is fast.

As you’ll see in the video above, the Ford GT is built around function. Each air intake serves a purpose. From the front vent, which channels air beneath the car and over the windshield, to the rear-wheel vents which intake air for the turbocharger. And once the engine is done making good use of all the air it’s bringing in, it sends it back out through an exhaust system in the tail lights.

And then, there’s this:

Those wings are curved to produce downforce and channel the air around to the active rear spoiler. It’s a unique feature on the Ford GT that most would probably assume to be as useless as those non-polarized Wayfarer sunglasses companies hand out like candy. Like we said, though, nothing on the Ford GT is useless.

For anyone interested in learning more about the Ford GT

It’s a 3.5L EcoBoost V6 that produces 600 horsepower. The body and chassis are mainly made out of carbon fiber, and Ford claims this gives the GT one of the best power to weight ratios in the world. We can’t confirm this – since they haven’t released the curb weight quite yet – but it must be pretty good to beat out every car in its class at Le Mans.

Want one?

We’re sorry to say that the 2017 Ford GT is no longer available to the public. They were accepting applications for purchase between 4/13/16 and 5/12/16, so if you’re reading this while traveling back in time, bet everything you own on the Panthers losing the super bowl (if you live in Nevada, Oregon, Delaware, or Montana), and get your application ready.

There’s no word on whether there will be another round of Ford GT production once these lucky few have their GTs delivered, but we’ll keep you posted as soon as we know. For now, we’ll just leave you with an amazing photo album to drool over.

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