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 gruelling Nürburgring track. Its lap time won’t be announced until 10 December, 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 10 December. In the meantime, check out the trailer teased by Ford for cool (and great-sounding!) footage of the GTD going flat-out on the ’Ring.
