2025 Ford Mustang GTD Review Roundup: Not Your Average Pony

As Ford Authority exclusively reported back in June, deliveries of the 2025 Ford Mustang GTD have been underway for a while now, with production at Multimatic’s facility ramping up in the ensuing months. Utilizing a variety of 3D-printed parts and trick bits and pieces, the ultimate road-going pony car has already become one of very few production vehicles to ever lap Germany’s Nurburgring in less than seven minutes.

While most of us will never get the chance to drive or even own a Ford Mustang GTD – you have to be approved and have $300k or more to spend on one – at least we can look to some just-released reviews to see what that experience is like. First up, we have Car & Driver, which didn’t come away terribly impressed by the GTD’s output of 815 horsepower, though the rest of its exotic kit is the real star of the show here.

“The GTD allows Ford to compete with the world’s best supercars on the street too,” said C&D’s Jared Gall. “The question of whether a Mustang can be worth upwards of $325,000 is unavoidable, but so is the question of whether any car is. As much as any car can be, the Mustang is. Yes, it looks like a Mustang and is called a Mustang. But the experience of piloting this one is wholly unique from that of anything else in its lineage. The GTD transcends what any Mustang has ever been before.”

As for Scott Evans at MotorTrend, he notes that the Ford Mustang GTD may be a bit hefty at nearly 4,400 pounds – roughly 1,200 more than the Porsche 911 GT3 RS – but “it is so planted, so settled, and so confident, anyone can get in it and go fast. The grip exceeds what even the experienced supercar driver expects in cornering, accelerating, braking, or any combination thereof. At no point does it feel light and nimble in the manner of the GT3 RS, but it doesn’t matter. It’s just a different way of getting the job done equally well.”

Then we have Kurt Niebuhr at Edmunds, who points out that the GTD is “the kind of vehicle you might expect from a boutique European manufacturer, but certainly not from Ford. For car enthusiasts, Mustang fans or not, the GTD is flat-out cool. It’s a wildly modified road-legal car with a ridiculously advanced suspension, wild bodywork and fantastic manners, both on and off the track. But that comes at a very steep cost. With a base price of $318,760, which does not include destination or the gas-guzzler tax, or any options, this is a very expensive Mustang.”

Brett's lost track of all the Fords he's owned over the years and how much he's spent modifying them, but his current money pits include an S550 Mustang and 13th gen F-150.

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Brett's lost track of all the Fords he's owned over the years and how much he's spent modifying them, but his current money pits include an S550 Mustang and 13th gen F-150.