Onboard Video Proves The Mustang GTD Is America’s Nürburgring King

$300,000 for a Ford Mustang. That’s unheard of before, but that amount gets you the Mustang GTD, which recently proved its worth through a record-setting stint at the Nürburgring. With a lap time of 6:52.072, the Mustang GTD is, by far, the only American production nameplate to break the seven-minute mark, putting it among the fastest production cars that ever lapped the Green Hell. Now, you have the chance to see that hot lap right from the driver’s seat.

With Multimatic Motorsports driver Dirk Müller at the helm, the Mustang GTD’s Nürburgring run is more exhilarating to watch from the inside than it is from the outside. The entire onboard video of the record-setting lap is found at the bottom of this page where you’d see the Ford supercar take the German circuit’s corners with brutal precision – like a sports car specially tuned for the famously treacherous track.

Adjustments Will Also Be Applied To Production Models

And specially tuned the Mustang GTD was. After an impressive, albeit disappointing run last year, Ford immediately worked to extract more potential from its newest halo Mustang. Through second-by-second lap analysis and simulation, the Blue Oval tweaked the car to Nürburgring perfection with a stiffer chassis, updated suspension and alignment, improved aero, better traction control behavior, and revised calibration for the 5.2-liter supercharged V8, among others, resulting in a 5.5-second faster lap time.

The best part is, Ford said that those changes and adjustments are also found on every production Mustang GTD. So, yes, that $300,000 spent by one-percenters will get them an 815-horsepower Mustang that can stand elbow-to-elbow with European favorites, such as the new Porsche 911 GT3, the Lamborghini Aventador SVJ, the Mercedes-AMG GT Black Series, or even the Mercedes-AMG One.

Your Move, Chevrolet

Ford confirmed in March that it had already started production of the first 10 Mustang GTD in Canada – hand-assembled by Multimatic, the same engineering firm that worked on the Ford GT supercar. However, the improvements applied to achieve the record-setting lap will be applied to customer cars to be produced in spring.

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Now that the Mustang GTD has set a benchmark for every other American sports car, we hope Chevrolet is currently hard at work in trying to topple Ford’s latest achievement. We’re talking about the 1,064-hp Corvette ZR1, of course, which has been chasing lap times recently. If those two start getting on each other’s throat at the Nürburgring, America wins.