Ford Ceo Jim Farley Delivers Jay Leno's Mustang Gtd

Famed fire survivor and not-a-Ferrari owner Jay Leno conscionable took custody of his brand-new Ford Mustang GTD, nan American carmaker's effort to musculus successful connected nan European exotic market. And I do mean marque new. The car only conscionable started rolling disconnected nan assembly lines of nan institution that invented assembly lines, and Leno's GTD is serial number 12, matching his Ford GTs. The Mustang was delivered consecutive to him by nary little than Ford CEO Jim Farley himself.

As seen connected the latest section of Jay Leno's Garage, Farley walks nan one-time talk show big done nan Mustang GTD and what makes it special. Farley says that this is nan "ultimate Mustang ever built," and it's not difficult to spot why: This front-engined American instrumentality lapped nan Nurburgring successful conscionable 6:52.072. It managed that utilizing nan optional Performance Pack, which adds a beforehand splitter, underbody flaps, and a Formula 1-style DRS spoiler that grants it 2,000 pounds of downforce astatine 180 mph.

The Mustang GTD is nan street-legal type of nan race-spec Mustang GT3 that took a podium decorativeness astatine Le Mans successful 2024. As Farley keeps connected pointing retired to Leno, though, nan GTD comes pinch a bunch of features nan title car didn't moreover get. And yet, arsenic Leno takes it for a rotation connected nan streets of LA, he notes, "You could thrust this each day... In a complimentary way, it's for illustration a Miata. It's highly ray and nimble connected its feet." It's calm enough, erstwhile you want it to be, to enactment for illustration a normal car.

On nan rear of nan GTD there's an etching of each procreation of Mustang, a proud lineage that nan GTD is now astatine nan apex of. The paddle shifters, cogwheel knob, and serial sheet are 3D printed retired of titanium, because arsenic Farley says, each past item of nan car is focused connected "weight and performance." He didn't mention that nan titanium virtually comes from decommissioned F-22 combatant jets, but, conscionable truthful you know, it comes from decommissioned F-22 combatant jets.

Inside nan compartment itself, there's a small rear model conscionable to spot nan suspension dampers successful action. Farley points this retired during nan existent drive, though Leno jokes that he can't look without crashing. I don't cognize that immoderate accumulation car has ever fto maine look astatine nan suspension, uh, suspending, but that's surely a measurement to awesome that this is nary normal car.

Most rubbing of all: Everyone who really built nan car signed it underneath nan hood, a testament to nan truth that this is simply a low-volume exemplary pinch only a mini squad moving connected it. Only 1,000 GTDs will ever beryllium made. Leno has different Fords that were signed this way, and he says that he's ever unfastened to signatories aliases their relatives swinging by nan car shed to spot it.

Farley says that nan Mustang GTD is simply a "high-performance exotic car," alternatively than a much accepted musculus car. That said, it was important to Ford that nan Mustang remained recognizably a Mustang. So where, say, nan Chevrolet Corvette has gone mid-engined, nan GTD still has a awesome large stonking V8 correct astatine nan beforehand of nan car. It's a supercharged 5.2-liter motor based connected nan company's Predator line, making 815 horsepower and 664 pound-feet of torque. That's bully for a apical velocity of 202 mph. Stopping each that powerfulness are ceramic brakes pinch 17-inch rotors.

The GTS besides boasts $4,000 worthy of microchips onboard for nan computers to execute each their wizardry, a lithium-ion artillery successful spot of a paltry aged 12-volt, and you moreover get a concierge service, meaning a master flies successful to do immoderate activity nan car needs.

If you'd for illustration a signed Ford Mustang GTD yourself, it's easy! You conscionable person to apply for one (so Ford tin judge whether you're typical enough, I guess) and fork complete $327,960, astatine minimum, earlier you put immoderate extras connected it. That prices it a small spot supra a Porsche 911 GT3 RS, 1 of nan European exotics nan GTD is meant to straight challenge. Worth it? Whichever broadside of that reply you autumn on, you cognize you want one.