Hear It! See It! The Ford Mustang GTD Hits The Nürburgring With Screaming Motor, DRS Deployed

The Ford Mustang GTD is attacking the track again.

CarSpyMedia has captured the upcoming supercar returning to the Nürburgring Nordschleife as it prepares to go for a sub-seven-second run.

Or maybe this was it?

The black black coupe is being driven hard as it fills the Eifel mountains with the sound of its 800 hp 5.2-liter V8’s screaming supercharger and bellowing exhausts.

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Several shots of the vehicle also appear to show it with its drag reduction system engaged. The feature changes the angle of the rear wing and elements at the front of the car to reduce downforce and enable higher top speeds.

An executive from Multimatic, the racing and performance car company that is handling final assembly of the Mustang GTD, told American Cars And Racing that the system increases the top speed from around 185 mph to 210 mph.

Ford recently revealed that it is not standard, however, and is being offered as an option on the $325,000 model. It also showed off its interior for the first time. It doesn’t stray too far from the standard Mustang’s, but gets a special steering wheel and just two seats.

That’s because its most unique feature is a window behind the seats that shows off its unique pushrod rear suspension, which uses laterally-mounted coilover shocks.

The car’s body is modeled off of the Mustang GT3 that races in IMSA and WEC, but it uses the factory unibody rather than replacing the front and rear clips with tubular subframes.

Production of the Mustang GTD is scheduled to begin sometime late this year. Ford hasn’t said how many it plans to build, but it has started taking applications to place reservations, which require a review of previous Ford ownership and the customer’s social media reach.

The current Nürburgring record for an American car belongs to the Dodge Viper ACR, which did a 7:01.3 lap in 2017.

The Porsche 911 GT3 RS that the Mustang GTD was designed to go head-to-head with recorded a 6:44.848 lap in 2022.