Ford Mustang GTD First Track Review: How Did It Do?

By Gary Gastelu |

Aug 20, 2025

The Ford Mustang GTD has been making a lot of news in recent months with its feats at the Nürburgring, but all with a Ford driver behind the wheel. But now it’s hit the track with an independent automotive news outlet behind the wheel.

The U.K.’s Top Gear magazine has published the first full review of the super ‘Stang, and has some interesting opinions. The article written by Ollie Marriage is a companion piece to a video shot at Circuit Paul Ricard in France.

Marriage first recounts what we already know about the Mustang GTD: that Ford did its best to turn a heavy mainstream model into a supercar that can tangle with the world’s best of them, like the Porsche 911 GT3 RS.

Ford completely reengineered the chassis with a wide track and a two-stage suspension with pushrod activated rear springs that take up the space that used to be the trunk.

“But carbon body panels and magnesium wheels can only do so much when you’re also adding extra stiffening all over the place and huge components. I’m not kidding, get up close to the porthole and you realise just how outsize those dampers are, like the pistons off steam trains. And so it continues around the car: brakes, splitter, vents – it’s not just the wing that’s ginormous. And all necessarily huge to support the weight, which climbs because the components are big and so on and so forth.”

All told, the Musang GTD weighs about half a ton more than a 911 GT3 RS, and its 815 hp to 518 hp advantage can only do so much with it, which is reflected in their respective 6:52.072 and 6:49.328 Nürburgring lap times.

Nevertheless, he says “it does everything professionally. No wayward movement, no chassis shudder or suspension tremor, no gearbox slack.” Adding that “it almost never loses its composure on road or track feels, well, luxurious.”

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On the track, he called it “one of the most engaging, indulgent and entertaining I’ve ever driven,” and a “bear hug” of a car that takes less effort to drive fast than the 911 RS, but feels like it’s “about to pull itself apart” above 165 mph with vibrations.

He liked it better than the 911 RS on the road, because it still feels like a Mustang, and said “I think in the U.S. it’s going to be greeted as the greatest thing since the Constitution.”