The Ford Mustang Thread

The Ford Mustang GTD is now the fastest American car around the Nürburgring

Wild pony car manages 6m 57.6s run, and Ford reckons it could go even faster. Yee-haw!

Ford’s most hardcore road-legal Mustang ever, the ‘GTD’, has just posted a Nürburgring lap time of 6m 57.6s at an average pace of 110.6mph. That makes it the fastest American production car ever around the Green Hell, and only the sixth 'standard' production car to go around in sub-seven minutes. Yeah, it do be quick.
Driven by German motorsport ace Dirk Muller - a previous Nürburgring 24 Hours winner - the GTD carries over many bits from the Mustang GT3 program. Headliners include active aero, carbon ceramic brakes, properly trick suspension and a big new supercharger which shrills like a child hitting a 90-degree tilt on a swing.

 
Ford’s Mustang Dark Horse is a well-balanced galloping pony

Two bites at the same sweet apple doesn’t happen often and when it’s in a Ford Mustang Dark Horse, well, it’s even tastier.

I was privileged to be present last year at the Global launch of Ford’s track-focussed Mustang Dark Horse iteration of the iconic muscle car held in Charlotte, North Carolina, home of NASCAR.

It was one of those memorable occasions where we were allowed to run free on the track of Charlotte speedway that allowed the Dark Horse to snort and gallop to its heart’s content.

Later, we drove around the city at a much more sedate pace especially after we had learnt that one of the local scribes had been fined $1,000 (R18,000) for speeding.

The Dark Horse was the first new performance name for the brand since Mustang Bullitt was introduced in 2001 and even with three generations of improvements, the Dark Horse smacks it out the park.

 
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