The Ford Mustang Thread

Ford Mustang GTD records 6m 40.8s ‘Ring time, becomes second quickest overall*

*sorta. Ford absolutely blitzes the hottest Mustang’s previous time by 11 seconds

In 2024, the Ford Mustang GTD managed to race around the Nürburgring’s lightly challenging layout in 6m 57.6s. At the time, that made it the fastest American car to have achieved such a feat.

In 2025, Ford went even faster. After a raft of tweaks – more aero, more power, more… suspension – the GTD recorded a time of 6m 52s. Hugely respectable.

And now, in 2026, capping off the longest and least surprising intro to a news story considering you’ve already read the headline, Ford has absolutely sent the wild GTD to become the second-fastest production car overall with a time of 6m 40.8s. Well, kinda, but we’ll get to that.

“When we said ‘game on’, we meant it,” said Ford boss Jim Farley. “Mustang GTD was always meant to bridge the worlds between GT3 race cars and street-legal supercars, and the GTD Competition takes this to the next level to continue keeping Europe’s elite up at night.”

 
Ford Mustang Cobra Jet 2200 sets new electric speed record

Drag racing usually means overwhelming smell of gasoline and the deafening roar of engines. But at the NHRA 4-Wide Nationals in Charlotte, a different kind of machine stole the show. Ford Racing brought its latest creation, the Mustang Cobra Jet 2200, to the track, and the results were nothing short of historic. This new version is now the fastest of all electric cars on a drag strip ever - it finished a quarter-mile run in 6.87 seconds, and it reached a top speed of 356 km/h.

This performance did beat the competition, and it crushed Ford's own previous record. In September 2024, the older Cobra Jet 1800 set a record of 7.623 seconds. Cutting three-quarters of a second off a race time might not sound like much to a person walking down the street, but in professional racing, it is a giant leap. Most racers fight for weeks just to gain a few thousandths of a second.

The secret to this speed is a total redesign of how the car uses power. Some might think Ford just added more batteries and stronger motors to the old car, but that is not the case. The Cobra Jet 2200 was built from the ground up to be more efficient. It delivers a massive 2,200 horsepower - about 1,640.5 kilowatts. This power comes from two custom-built electric motors. Interestingly, Ford chose to use only two motors and two inverters this time, instead of the four used in the previous model. By simplifying the setup, the team made the car lighter and more effective.

The motors in this new electric monster are quite a feat of engineering. They weigh about half as much as the motors in the older version, yet they produce 600 more horsepower. This means the car has more "muscle" but carries less "fat." The inverters that manage the flow of electricity are also incredibly efficient, wasting less than 2% of the energy they process. All of this runs on a 900V electrical system.

www.arenaev.com

Ford Mustang Cobra Jet 2200 sets new electric speed record

The Ford Mustang Cobra Jet 2200 has officially become the quickest electric vehicle in the world by completing a quarter-mile sprint in 6.87 seconds.
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