Ford has just unveiled the 800-horsepower Ford Mustang GTD, which will be offered in late 2024 or early 2025 at a starting price tag about $300,000.
There is certainly considerably additional in this Mustang, according to Ford, in addition to its effective engine to account for its Lamborghini-stage price tag. It is modeled on the Mustang GT3 racing motor vehicle that’s established to be pushed in intercontinental opposition upcoming 12 months.
“We see it as sort of an underdog technique to just take on Europe’s racing elite, not just with the race auto, but we required to carry that race automobile to the avenue,” said Jim Baumbick, Ford’s vice president for product or service enhancement.
For some cause, Ford appears to have this prolonged-standing need to show itself deserving against European organizations that make significant-priced athletics cars. It goes all the way again to that 1960s tiff that was the topic of the 2019 movie “Ford vs. Ferrari” and, evidently, Ford just isn’t ready to enable it go.
“Ford vs. Ferrari” recounted the 1960s Le Mans races received by the Ford GT40 race car or truck which was produced especially to spite the Italian automaker following Ford could not get the business. In the 2000s, Ford has manufactured two fashionable variations of the Ford GT that have both equally develop into really collectible. A new Ford GT gained its course at Le Mans in 2016.
This time, Ford preserved the Mustang’s standard style, with a supercharged 5.2-liter V8 motor up front underneath the hood, not guiding the seats as in the GT designs. Ford is attempting to accomplish very similar levels of pace and handling, although. That required undertaking absent with issues that make an standard Mustang a useful automobile for day-to-day use – this kind of as a trunk, for illustration.
The Mustang GTD, although legal to generate on community streets, will not be making trips to the grocery store.
The Mustang GTD’s entire body is almost completely carbon fiber and is replete with lively aerodynamic options to assist it grip the highway at higher speeds. An huge wing is mounted off the sides of the back again window. Unlike other Mustangs, this 1 has no again seats and no trunk, the concept becoming to use each ounce of weight and every cubic inch of area, as a great deal as probable, for performance, claimed Baumbick.
The back again seats were being done absent with basically to preserve pounds. The space in which a trunk would have been is employed to property a unique cooler for the gear box and equipment for the refined adjustable suspension system.
A large amount of mechanical and engineering style and design function was carried out to give the motor vehicle the form of best entrance-to-rear excess weight equilibrium which is suitable for cornering, claimed Baumbick. For occasion, the car’s 8-speed gearbox is all the way in the back.
Every single motor vehicle will start generation at the identical Flat Rock, Michigan, factory at