The 2025 Ford Mustang GTD Is Not a Homologation Special

Ford’s announcement of its 2025 Mustang GTD supercar has sent pony-car fans into a frenzy. What is it, exactly? The new Mustang—still in development—features an almost completely unique carbon-fiber body widened 100 mm from the seventh-gen road car, a 5.2-liter supercharged V-8 targeting over 800 horsepower, an eight-speed dual-clutch rear transaxle, active aero that functions like Formula 1 DRS, plus magnesium wheels, titanium exhaust, carbon-fiber brakes, and a roughly $300K sticker. We talked to some key figures and here’s what they told us—hype and all.

Jim Farley

Ford Motor Company CEO

“Our idea behind this car was, let’s take a race car and not change anything for the street. In fact, let’s add some stuff that’s outlawed in racing, for the street. So it’s like a different kind of project. It’s for AMG Black, it’s for Aston Martin, it’s for the GT3 RS. And we want to beat [that competition]. We take what we’re really good at, like a Mustang, and we do the unthinkable. Like, take on the Europeans—punch for punch—at what they have been doing for decades. As an underdog.”

“The vision for this is totally different than any high-performance Mustang we have. [It has] all the latest technology from our [GT3] race car, but we actually put it on the street. That’s why I care so deeply about this car. Because it’s been in my head for five decades. I want to see Porsche, I want to see Aston Martin, I want to see Mercedes sweat. We’re going to compete with them globally.”

“This is a new approach for us. We didn’t engineer a road car for the track, we created a race car for the road. Mustang GTD takes racing technology from our Mustang GT3 race car, wraps it in a carbon fiber Mustang body and unleashes it for the street… This is our company, we’re throwing down the gauntlet and saying, ‘Come and get it.’ We’re comfortable putting everybody else on notice. I’ll take track time in a Mustang GTD against any other auto boss in their best road car.”

Larry Holt

Multimatic founder and “in many ways the father of this car, with our Ford team,” according to Ford CEO Jim Farley. [Multimatic and Ford worked on the Mustang GTD together]

“There’s going to be confusion… People will think that the GT3 race car is homologated off this road car [the GTD]. But that can’t be. The race car has been homologated off the gen-seven Mustang. And then we made a road car off the race car [the new GTD]. That’s pretty unique… Here we actually did a race car, and then have done a road car.”

“[The GTD] is way more sophisticated than the [GT3] race car. I mean, I don’t think anybody would not say that. You can’t have active aero on the race car. We have active aero on this. You can’t have active suspension on the race car. We have active suspension on this. So it takes a look at that race car and takes it way further, technologically.”