If you’d like essentially the most hardcore, track-focused Mustang you possibly can probably purchase, the 2025 Ford Mustang GTD will price you an eye-watering $327,960. Nonetheless, it’s going to lap the Nürburgring in lower than seven minutes, clocking in with a time of 6:52.072. It additionally occurs to be slower across the ‘Ring than the less-expensive Chevrolet Corvette ZR1. In order that’s it then, proper? The Mustang GTD is irrelevant and a waste of cash, and anybody who buys one is both a moron or has an excessive amount of cash for their very own good. However is that actually true?
I imply, you might undoubtedly make the argument that anybody who can afford to spend $328,000 on a automotive of any form has an excessive amount of cash for their very own good, and you’ll be right, however that is not actually a Mustang GTD-specific difficulty. I’d additionally argue ZR1 patrons have an excessive amount of cash for their very own good. In a world the place sufficient individuals have a lot cash sitting round that they’ll afford a automotive that prices as a lot as a home, although, is the Mustang GTD actually irrelevant?
Our buddies at SavageGeese just lately spent a while driving the Mustang GTD and speaking with the event workforce, and never solely does it seem to have each Jack and Mark satisfied, even essentially the most hardcore ZR1 followers could must admit this automotive actually is healthier than they thought.
A pinnacle expertise on observe
Now, I am not going to fake this video will probably be a fast watch. It is almost an hour lengthy, and even if you happen to crank the velocity as much as 2x, you are still a 28-minute funding. That is lots of time to spend on a automotive video, however that is additionally SavageGeese we’re speaking about. You understand moving into that it will be price your time and that it’s going to embrace extra data than you may doubtless get from every other video you see on the Mustang GTD.
If you happen to’re impatient, although, you possibly can at all times skip all of the background information and bounce proper to the 38-minute mark, the place the driving impressions start. If you happen to do this, simply be ready to return and watch the entire thing, as a result of even if you happen to’re a hater, listening to those guys speak about driving the Mustang GTD goes to make you need to be taught extra about it, assured. I imply, at one level, Mark calls it “the top expertise I’ve had on observe, aside from the GT3 RS.”
He then instantly follows that up by saying, “There’s nothing that I’ve felt that mixed the emotion and the fun-to-drive half, together with not being pissed off driving this automotive quick. It’s simply a lot enjoyable. You consider it afterward. I can nonetheless give it some thought now with fond recollections and assume, ‘I need to get again on this automotive.’ It is so uncommon, with all of the automobiles that we drive, and there is one thing to be mentioned about that, as properly.” In the meantime, Jack calls it “certainly one of [his] favourite issues [he’s] ever pushed.”
Speak about some critical reward. And people are just some choose quotes. Is it nonetheless too costly? Possibly. However there’s a lot extra to what makes a automotive nice to drive than a easy lap time and value comparability, and even when SavageGeese cannot persuade you to spend home cash on a Mustang, on the very least, you need to respect what the workforce has achieved right here.
