The new 2025 Ford Mustang GTD is out, and Ford has already launched a video of the mannequin testing at Highway Atlanta. It sounds unimaginable, so you must cease what you are doing to observe and hear.

What you are listening to is a 5.2-liter supercharged V-8. It seems to be an evolution of the outdated Shelby GT500‘s “Predator” engine, albeit with {hardware} modifications and a brand new dry-sump oiling system. Output is 800 horsepower and 730 pound-feet of torque, which will get to the rear-mounted eight-speed dual-clutch transaxle through a carbon-fiber driveshaft. What’s unclear right here is that if the camouflaged testing mule is sporting the elective titanium Akrapovic exhaust, however what is evident is that it sounds wonderful.

Not too completely different than the GT500, after all, however that is no dangerous factor. That automotive made its presence recognized for miles. Whereas testing one just a few years in the past, we truly bought in bother for violating a observe’s noise limits. This, in a automotive that had license plates. Count on related shenanigans from the GTD.

You’ll be able to hear a little bit of supercharger whine from the entrance, however because the automotive passes, all you hear is exhaust be aware. It sounds just like the transmission shifts rapidly, too. That was the case with the seven-speed Tremec dual-clutch within the GT500, and we suspect that the GTD makes use of Tremec’s eight-speed transaxle, a growth of that seven-speed.

The automotive, after all, appears very quick. Ford is concentrating on a sub-seven-minute Nürburgring Nordschleife lap time, and with all that grunt plus huge Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 R tires and actual aerodynamics, we will see them getting there. We’ll accept driving one at Highway Atlanta, nevertheless.

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A automotive fanatic since childhood, Chris Perkins is Highway & Monitor’s engineering nerd and Porsche apologist. He joined the employees in 2016 and nobody has discovered a strategy to hearth him since. He street-parks a Porsche Boxster in Brooklyn, New York, a lot to the horror of everybody who sees the automotive, not least the creator himself. He additionally insists he isn’t a convertible particular person, regardless of proudly owning three.