The 815 HP Ford Mustang GTD Gets 12 MPG

The Ford Mustang GTD holds the American lap record for the 12.9-mile Nürburgring Nordschliefe at 6:52.072, but you’ll have to drive it a lot slower than that if you want to make it around the track on one gallon of gas.

The 815 hp super-‘Stang’s official fuel economy rating has been posted ahead of the first deliveries in a few weeks and let’s just say it’s not what you’d call economical with fuel.

The EPA has rated the $325,000 car at 10 mpg city, 17 mpg highway and 12 mpg in combined driving. We won’t try to speculate how much fuel it chugs during a hot lap, but it’s probably a good thing that it has a 16-gallon gas tank.

The last generation Ford Mustang GT500 that used an earlier version of the Mustang GTD’s supercharged 5.2-liter V8 rated at 760 hp was slightly more efficient at 14 mpg, while the hulking Ford F-150 Raptor R that is powered by one tuned to 720 hp matches the Mustang GTD’s 12 mpg.

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As it stands, the Mustang GTD is in a tie as the second-least efficient sports car listed by the EPA with the 1,001 hp hybridLamborghini Revuelto behind the $5 million Bugatti Mistral, which is powered by a 1,578 hp and gets 9 mpg combined. But the Mustang GTD could be getting some domestic competition in this category soon.

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The upcoming 1,064 hp Chevrolet Corvette ZR1’s official rating has not yet been released, but it uses a twin-turbocharged version of the 670 hp 5.5-liter V8 found in the Corvette Z06, which has a 14 mpg combined rating. That suggests that there’s a very good chance that the ZR1 ends up making the Mustang GTD look like a Mustang Mach-E on the smog charts.

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Whatever the ZR1’s rating ends up, hopefully for Chevrolet’s sake it puts the guzzled gas to good use when it puts in a time at the Nürburgring, where small numbers are better.