If you think you spend Lambo money for a Mustang, Jim Farley wants to have a word with you. The preference of the Blue Oval CEO for the OG pony car makes the 7-and-times 8 figure-pro-year manager Joe Six Pack seem more like a captain of the industry. But his Stang fanboying comes from the heart: he restored a basket case from 1964 at the age of 15, acquired a 650 Shelby GT350 and has followed all types of Mustangs. Farley’s advocate of the platform is well documented and may have been expressed most clearly when he protected the Mustang in the 2018 course of Ford 2018 on the construction of trucks, crossovers and SUVs from extinction.
The Big Boss also put the Mustang inserted by throwing the model into a number of racing series, the most critical GT3, where the modest American pony car competed against type tags such as Aston Martin, Ferrari, Lamborghini and McLaren. In the event of context against these ultra-fantic competitors, a strongly confused, flamed, ventilator and $ 325,000 Mustang GTD begins to make a little more sensible.
“Mustang is the flagship racing car of the Ford Motor Company, and pretty much every weekend that we run somewhere” Dupont registry At the media start of the vehicle in thermal, approx. “We compete against the exotic European car manufacturers. Why shouldn’t we compete with them on the street?”
The first goal in building up the most evil assusal in the whole country was the establishment of a murder period of Nürburgring. “You can not only tell people that we are like Porsche,” emphasizes Goodall, “they have to measure it in any way.” Hence the time objective of sub-7 minutes.
Initially, things did not work as planned, since in 2024 only three officially time-controlled rounds achieved due to the weather on the 12.9 mile circuit. While a August run of 6: 57,685 reached, the team was of the opinion that there was space for improvements that inspired chassis, suspension and aero optimizations as well as revisions of ABS and traction control. In May 2025 Dirk Müller found 5.6 seconds and increased the 6: 52.072 time of the 815-hp muscle car directly behind the Porsche 911 GT3 RS (6: 49.328), Mercedes-AMG GT Black Series (6: 48.047) and The Mercedes-AMG One (6: 29: 090). Although GTDS are already in the hands of paying customers, Ford Performance says that they are still watching a faster lap time around the Eifel Mountain course.
Like this other performance -oriented tribe, which was carried out with the international competition, the Ford GT, the GTD was carried out by deep cooperation with Multimatic. Transmogrification begins with an ordinary Mustang’s body-in-white body, which is made of Fords Flat Rock, Michigan, to multimatic headquarters in Ontario.
The body-in-white body of the Mustang is shipped without anterior fender or a bonnet, which is multimatically replaced by a solidly trained and ventilated pair of fenders and a carbon fiber hood with removable upper grilling for the use of the route. The deep operation begins with cutting and removing the second row, the rear floor and the outer shell.
A large part of this negative space is filled with the Tremec 8-speed dual clutch transaxle, which contributes to delivering an almost perfect weight distribution of 50/50. At the front is a development of the 5.2-liter V8 by Predator found in the GT500 and Raptor R, which is torn on 815 hp and 664 LB-FT torque. This application uses dry swamp lubrication and drives the performance through a carbon props wave – all the right racing cars.
While the company may be ahead, the GTD party is definitely behind it. Due to the disruption of a room through the transexle, a multimatic developed an interior fabric system that uses a large Ford GT like the late. Using double coil valve dampers, the suspension fits half-active in every drive mode. Just like the GT, a spurge mode (for which the vehicle must be stopped and activated in the park) leaves the body dramatic in less than 2.0 seconds, which leads a super low driving height and a satisfactory aggro bike.
Incidentally, carbon fiber reinforcements respect the broken puzzle of the discounted rear of the GTD and give it stiffer torsional stiffness as shares. They also collided in heat exchangers to cool the transaxle, a massive active wing with DRS that is mounted on the rear columns, and the Pushod suspension mentioned above, which is visible in the cabin by a lexan window. Pro tip: If you tend the rearview mirror down while driving, you can clearly view the fascinating kinematics of the fascinating suspension. Don’t try that at home.
With all the visual theater of the swollen, swollen, punching and steroidal bodies of the GTD, the cabin is surprising – and disappointing – normal. The usual Mustang bits are abandoned, from the touchscreen display to the same HLK implementation (which is remarkably cold at 100 degrees) to the Faux carbon fiber texture around a part of the center console. Smaller changes are the adaptive cruise button of the steering wheel, which were repeated for the control of the multi-stage traction control settings in track mode.
Two days in the thermal club offer enough time to get used to the maximum length with a 5.1-mile indycar configuration to the circuit designed by Alan Wilson, which starts in dark horse tangs. Despite the annoying interiors, which change from $ 75,000, 500 hp-gutrit of up to $ 325,000 over $ 325,000, 815 HP GGD is like, well, from a horse to a super sports car.
The charged V8 of the GTD is brought to life with a raw growl, his Titan-Akrapovič exhaust, which reveals his track-focused intentions. Surprisingly, it seems as if the Supercharger jam has been calmed down at speed. Nevertheless, there are a number of ways of exceeding the GT3 racing car. Although it is heavier, it also generates more power and has active aerodynamics and suspension. According to Goodall, the GT3 could outperform a GTD on smaller, technical courses, although the GTD would probably reach longer tracks.
You would never know that the GTD £ 4,386 weighs from the cradle of the specially developed Recaro driver’s seat. As soon as the V8 accelerates, the tractor of the V8 is great, the steering feels excellent and the chassis and the chassis and the suspension and the suspension remarkably agile. Over cooking it into a corner, and a brake bolt and a steering adjustment quickly puts the stick back into shape; This beast never has the feeling that its mass gets away from them, especially at higher speeds, since the output of £ 941 escalates up to £ 1,951 per hour at £ 180 per hour. The SIX piston carbon ceramic brembos, which create powerful, slightly modulated, fade-free stops are also commendable. Oh, and you can have any tire you want on the GTD … as long as it is ultra stick Michelin Cup 2 RS.
As much as the Hertz interior of GTD Rent-A-Car sends the wrong signals about his skills, his mercilessly aggressive body work and the broad shoulder dance sing into its true self. And so that you do not suspect that well-heeled Muscle Car buyers look back at the price, the order book is already full in the first two production years.
The GTD is violent, controlled and bombastic through performance and is the all-American M2 browning .50 Cal to the Teutonic Surgical scalpel of the GT3 RS. And if you ask yourself why Ford and Multimatic not even wilder with a full carbon fiber chassis, the answer is simple: it would no longer be a Mustang.
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