No other Ford has raced as widely, or won as much, as the Mustang. Debuting today is the all-new 2025 Ford Mustang GTD, a technological tour de force inspired by the Mustang GT3 slated to race in Le Mans next year. Unapologetic in its heritage, unbelievable in its performance, its sculpted, mostly carbon fiber wide body and looming rear wing make it clear: this is like no Mustang ever before.
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Engineered to go like hell: Ford teamwork brings GT3-inspired Mustang GTD to the street
Aug 18, 2023
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This is our company, we’re throwing down the gauntlet and saying come and get it.
Today's reveal brings together the tenets of the Ford+ plan. “Ford does certain things naturally better than anyone else in the world,” said Ford president and CEO Jim Farley. “We are world-class at cars like Mustangs, we are world-class at Broncos, we are world-class at pickup trucks, we are world-class at commercial vehicles.” And now with Mustang GTD, the bar is raised.
Mustang GTD also is an illustration of the first pillar of our global motorsports strategy, which centers on building performance with a global icon – Mustang – while helping us grow that nearly 60-year-old brand through new offerings like Mustang Dark Horse and Mustang GTD.
And Mustang GTD is something only Ford can create. The car has competitors, but none of them have a Mustang soul.
The Mustang GTD was born as a complement to the company’s return to Le Mans next year. It will be the pinnacle of the Mustang family, a Mustang GT3-inspired street car directly from The Oval itself. Together with the Mustang GT3, Mustang GT4, and Mustang Dark Horse R, it will bolster the standing of Mustang as Ford's most-raced, most-successful nameplate as they prowl streets and tracks all around the globe. The GTD name for this newest Mustang refers to the IMSA “GTD” racing class for cars that are built to FIA GT3 technical regulations.
This is what happens when we take what we’re good at and push the boundaries.
Designed and engineered as a collaboration between Ford and Multimatic, which developed the Mustang GT3, Mustang GT4, and Le Mans-winning Ford GT, the Mustang GTD represents the culmination of decades of engineering advancement and continuous learning through racing.
Our design team worked in conjunction with the Mustang GT3 design team and the aero team, sharing solutions between race car and road car, and vice versa.
The deep expertise within Ford as a major global automaker is a distinct advantage. Technology and resources are at hand that simply don’t exist in smaller-scale tuner operations. One example is how the Mustang GTD utilizes an advanced electrical architecture from the new seventh-generation Mustang. It helps offer seamless connectivity, personalized driving modes, and over-the-air software updates.
Our target for this project was clear – go much, much faster than we’ve ever gone before. We're going for a sub-7-minute Nürburgring time. Nothing else will do.
Lap time drive simulations and powertrain dyno testing led to the selection of the powertrain and transaxle architecture to put power to the ground.
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