If that ain’t fast enough for you, the Canadian-built supercar may head back to the Green Hell next year to beat that record
- Yep: Ford just set a blazing 6:57.685 Nürburgring lap time with its hot new Mustang GTD
- The big boast is this makes it the first American automaker to break the 7-minute barrier on the ‘Ring
- Plans are afoot to bring the Canadian-built car back to Germany to beat that lap time in 2025
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And the team isn’t done. “We’re proud to be the first American automaker with a car that can lap the Nürburgring in under seven minutes,” said Jim Farley, Ford President and CEO. “But we aren’t satisfied. We know there’s much more time to find with Mustang GTD. We’ll be back.” Ford says the only deviations from a stock GTD were the addition of a five-point harness and roll cage, gear which is mandated by the Nürburgring.
The Mustang GTD’s Nürburgring success is due to the work of a focused and dedicated team of engineers and designers, all of whom toiled over the course of two years to turn the Mustang GT3 race car into the road-legal Mustang GTD supercar. Ford documented its efforts in the lead-up to the timed Nürburgring run in a 13-minute documentary that dropped today on YouTube.
Hey, it’s the company’s prerogative — and it must have worked, since it is said about 7,500 applications piled up for the production run of 2,000 cars. Only about a fifth of those applicants were North American, by the way.
Ford is building just 2,000 copies of the Mustang GTD, with the cost in Canada set at an estimated CDN$440,000, or US$325,000 Stateside.
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