From my limited understanding of the topic, the new 'GT40' is still only called the Ford GT, dispite its striking resemblance to the original Le Mans car, the GT40... Ford says the GT is merely "inspired by" the GT40. The major difference of course, is that you don't have to be a midget to drive the new GT, whereas most of us North Americans would have to chop off half a calf and lose a vertabrea, or the top of our skulls to fit in the old GT40, lol.
So, which was faster: The race built GT40 or the factory consumer GT?