“GTD is the king of Mustangs”

Car Design News: So Joel, this is a rather fabulous looking beast we have behind us. What is it you’ve brought here today?

Joel Piaskowski: This is the 2025 Mustang GTD just coming into the market right now. We’ve launched it, we’ve taken customer orders. We’re just starting to build the vehicles up at Multimatic in Toronto.

CDN: Tell us a little bit about the design. What takes the GTD up that extra notch?

JP: The GTD is really the pinnacle of the Mustang. The king of all Mustangs. It’s super high performance. We’re testing in the Nurburgring right now, getting some pretty amazing numbers. So stay tuned for those. But everything you see on GTD here has a functional purpose. There’s no superfluous styling. 

It’s all about function, getting the performance where it needs to be on the road of a down force and the coefficient of drag. So even on the rear of the vehicle, we’ve got an active spoiler to really let the air slip through the spoiler as it rips down the track.

CDN: There are enormous amounts of carbon fibre. Is it not only as you say, functional, but it also creates a rather dynamic graphic.

JP: So, what you’re seeing here is the exposed carbon fibre graphics package. We have the exposed carbon fibre rockers. The centre stripe going over the top and all the body panels are carbon fibre except for the doors, which are steel right off the assembly line not too far away from here in Flat Rock, Michigan, as well as the cant rail from the A to to C pillar here.

It’s being shipped up to Multimatic where they produce all the carbon fibre panels. The motor, the powertrain, a rear transaxle, an amazing rear suspension. That’s a piece of art unto itself.

CDN: And it’s quite interesting to expose that engineering to make it a point of interest.

JP: It really is. And you know, for the people that buy this type of vehicle and run it on tracks, it’s all about performance and the technology that gets them that performance.

We are showcasing that performance through the aesthetics, through how we extract air out of the front wheel well, for example, with these massive louvres coming out of the the front fenders. There are air intakes into the rear quarters for brake cooling; extractors out of the front hood and what we call a tech panel that cools the rear transaxle. There is also this cantilevered rear spoiler, this is first in the industry. This is something that’s really unique to the GTD, and we feel it really sets up the overall profile and gesture of the vehicle. And not only does it provide all the great performance and downforce, but it looks good doing it.