Mustang GTD Chases Nürburgring Record in New Teaser
The sold-out Ford Mustang GTD is unlike any other Mustang before it in terms of performance, styling, and pricing. It may also have established itself as one of the fastest production cars to lap the grueling Nürburgring track. Its lap time won’t be announced until December 10, but a preview video suggests a pretty impressive result.
The GTD’s engineering team developed the car with a target lap time of under seven minutes. For context, the fastest street-legal car around the Green Hell is the Mercedes-AMG One, which lapped the track in 6:29.090 earlier in 2024. Ford’s sub-seven-minute goal would make the GTD faster than the Porsche Cayman GT4 RS (7:04.511), the Mercedes-Benz GT R Pro (7:04.632), and possibly even the Porsche 918 Spyder (6:57). The standard Mustang’s ’Ring time hasn’t been published by Ford.
Did the Blue Oval pull it off? We’re guessing so, otherwise it probably wouldn’t be talking about sending a GTD to the Nürburgring. We can’t imagine the brand would go through the trouble of launching a teaser campaign to end it with “we got a flat and rain started pouring down, so we packed up our gear and got schnitzel.”
With that said, it will be interesting to see the work that went into building a Mustang capable of keeping up with—or beating—a Ferrari 488 Pista’s 7:00.3 time around one of the world’s most challenging race tracks. The full documentary, a 14-minute film called Road to the Ring, will be released on December 10. In the meantime, check out the trailer released by Ford for cool (and great-sounding!) footage of the GTD going flat-out on the ’Ring.
I really don’t understand Ford. They had the original GT that was high priced but not to the point you never see one. It was good at under $100K.
As for the new GT nice car but my buddy ordered one at $500K then got offered the Carbon for $750K. If he had never bought one I would never have seen one off the track. Also the V6 sound is not good.
Now we have a $339k Mustang? Only a few will sell and you most likely will never see one in general home town USA. Cool car and all but it is still a Mustang.
I like the C8 in how they offer models from $60K to $180K with all you would ever need on the street. It is special no matter what one you buy and you can easily drive any to work daily if you like. You will see them all in parking lots near you.
Then there is the Zora coming and I expect it to be more a track car but yet they say it will be no more expensive vs the ZR1
We also have a new C9 coming that I expect will be stronger, lighter and smoother than what we have now.
GM is making money on the Corvette but I can’t see ford making much if anything on cars like this at these low numbers. Also being seen on the streets is where you make more sales than a limited number of IMSA event.
Even if the ZR1 numbers are a couple seconds longer I would rather have the car I could drive daily vs the one I would part in a collection someplace.
I’m sure the full video will be fun to watch. I do wonder if I’ll ever see one of these on the road someday.