2025 Ford Mustang GTD First Drive: True to Its Roots
The sun’s barely been in the sky a couple of hours, but it’s sweltering. The mountains surrounding California’s Thermal Club race track wear a Technicolor, washed-out glow. More immediate in my field of vision: the enormous wing, haunches, and carbon-fiber straked vents of the 815-hp 2025 Ford Mustang GTD. I strap in. Time to go.
Moments later, the sights are joined by sounds: The rumbling of 325-section-width front tires over curbing; the shriek of the supercharger; my own uncontrollable giggles down the track’s longest straight as I close in on 150 mph. This is not the Mustang of my youth.
You’d be forgiven for thinking the Mustang GTD is a race car sans sponsorship decals, or that it is the menacingly attractive lovechild of a Dark Horse and a Gundam robot. You wouldn’t be far off. Ford’s newest halo car transmogrifies the idea of “road-going Mustang” into something entirely new — a six-figure supercar that can blast around Germany’s Nürburgring in less than seven minutes …
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(photo credit: Eddy Eckart | Hagerty)
