Ford Motor Co. is placing a $300,000, 800-hp halo atop its Mustang lineup that is taking goal at European supercars each on the monitor and within the streets.
The 2025 Mustang GTD, revealed Thursday night, is billed as probably the most highly effective street-legal pony automobile ever and is predicated on the Mustang GT3 race automobile that may return to Le Mans subsequent yr. It contains carbon-fiber physique panels, magnesium wheels, a rear-mounted eight-speed transaxle, a semi-active suspension and a particular 5.2-liter V-8 engine.
“It is the head of the breed and the perfect of each avenue and racing,” mentioned Jim Baumbick, Ford’s vp of product growth operations and high quality.
Ford mentioned it is going to start producing the GTD in partnership with Multimatic in late 2024 or early 2025 in “restricted” portions. The automobile shall be assembled on the Mustang plant in Flat Rock, Mich., earlier than being completed by Multimatic in Markham, Ontario.
Executives say the thought for the automobile got here from CEO Jim Farley, who insisted on a street model when he noticed the GT3. Farley teased the likelihood on Twitter in March.
“I’ve all the time promised myself I might push my workforce to do issues that have been unnatural within the identify of manufacturing one thing that is actually particular,” Farley mentioned. “I wish to see Porsche, I wish to see Aston Martin, I wish to see Mercedes sweat.”
Ford says the automobile was totally designed for efficiency.
The trunk, for instance, has been changed by the semi-active suspension, a hydraulic management system and a transaxle cooling system that makes use of a race-inspired cowl to interchange the trunk lid. Two scoops funnel air off the again glass and thru the warmth exchangers.
The rear transaxle supplies practically even weight distribution between the entrance and rear. An accessible hydraulically managed lively rear wing mounted on the C-pillar can improve aerodynamic efficiency.
Inside, the rear seating space has been eliminated to cut back weight and supply cargo area.
“Our design workforce labored along with the Mustang GT3 design workforce and the aero workforce, sharing options between race automobile and street automobile and vice versa,” mentioned Anthony Colard, Ford Efficiency design supervisor. “That is an aerodynamics-driven design.”
The Mustang GTD continues Ford’s technique of providing derivatives of fashionable nameplates such because the Mustang, Bronco and F-150 that enchantment to fanatic consumers.
Ford mentioned the GTD shall be accessible with a number of inside coloration mixtures and several other “particular choice packages.” It additionally will be ordered in any coloration and color-matched to a customer-provided pattern.
Ford mentioned there shall be an utility course of for would-be consumers, much like what it did for the last-generation GT supercar. Ford partnered with Multimatic on the GT as nicely.