Ford reopens Mustang GTD orders in Europe: 500 cars, no plate promise
Ford's German GTD page still says the car may end up track-only
Ford opened a second European application window for the Mustang GTD on 14 September, running to 16 October, with 500 cars allocated to the continent this time. The car is the same 815 hp supercharged V8 that lapped the Nürburgring in 6:52.072, and the wording on Ford's German site is also the same as in June 2024: type approval is under way, and if it is not granted the GTD will be a track car in certain markets.
The Mustang GTD application window runs to 16 October, with the Spirit of America livery
Ford is not taking orders, it is taking applications. The form asks about previous Ford and Mustang ownership, motorsport involvement and, optionally, a video making your case; approved applicants are then handed to a concierge team. The first European window ran from 13 June to 19 July 2024, and this second one covers 500 cars, against the roughly 7,500 applications Ford received for the first North American round. New for this round is the Spirit of America scheme, Performance White with asymmetric Race Red and Lightning Blue stripes across the tri-bar, introduced this year for the American 250th anniversary and shown at Laguna Seca in August. The Exclusive Extended Color Palette Lock-Out option guarantees that a chosen colour goes on no other GTD. There is no right-hand-drive version.
Germany pays €359,900, Belgium €366,000 and the Netherlands €476,800 for the same GTD
The application site lists estimated prices per country and they have not moved since 2024: €359,900 in Germany and Romania, €366,000 in Belgium, €525,500 in Austria, about €480,000 in Norway and £315,000 in Britain, against $325,000 in the United States. The Netherlands quotes €476,800 because of BPM, and the GTD is now the only new Mustang Ford will sell there: the importer dropped the regular car in January after registering three a year in 2024 and 2025, down from 16 in 2021. Whichever country the buyer is in, the contract carries the clause Ford confirmed in February 2025, a commitment to keep the car for two years, the same rule that put John Cena in court over a Ford GT.
Ford still lists EU type approval for the GTD as pending, 27 months after the first window
Ford's German consumer page says the Mustang GTD is going through the type-approval process for European markets and that, should approval not be granted, it will be sold as a track-only vehicle in certain markets. TopGear Nederland quoted that exact caveat from the application site on 17 June 2024. It is still there in September 2026, with European deliveries originally scheduled for spring 2025 and handover in Spain. The 6:52.072 production-class lap was checked by TÜV Rheinland for standard conformity, which is a Nürburgring requirement, not a registration. A buyer in the Netherlands, where the price sits €116,900 above the German figure, most of it BPM, has the most riding on the answer.
815 hp, 900 Nm and 325 km/h, and a 6:40.835 lap the customer car did not set
The GTD carries a supercharged 5.2-litre V8 with 815 hp and 900 Nm, an eight-speed dual-clutch transaxle at the rear, a carbon driveshaft, semi-active inboard pushrod rear suspension visible through the rear window, hydraulic drag reduction on the wing and 325 km/h. Its record history has three steps: 6:57.685 in November 2024, 6:52.072 as the official production-class time, and 6:40.835 in April 2026. That last lap was set by the GTD Competition, a variant with more power, extra dive planes, aero discs, magnesium wheels and carbon seats, timed in the pre-production and prototype class, where it sits sixth. It ran in the same week Manthey's 911 GT3 RS did 6:45.389 in the production class. Ford says the Competition will be sold as a serialised special edition; it has not said when, where or for how much.
North America got a 2027-2029 window on 17 April; Europe gets 500 cars
Ford closed the first North American window on 21 May 2024 with more than 7,500 applications for the 2025 and 2026 model years, then reopened it on 17 April 2026 for three further model years, 2027 to 2029. Europe's 500 is the first number Ford has attached to the continent's allocation. Each car is built at Flat Rock, Michigan, and finished by hand at Multimatic in Markham, Ontario, which caps output; the 806 hp Dark Horse SC is the Mustang for the people the GTD application turns away.
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Ford is asking Europeans to commit €359,900 to a car whose registration it has described as pending for 27 months, and to sign a clause that stops them selling it for two years if the plate never comes. Both facts are on Ford's own pages. The 500 cars will still be spoken for, because North America filed 7,500 applications for far fewer, and because nothing else with GT3 suspension and a factory warranty costs this. That does not make the caveat harmless: it moves the risk from the manufacturer to the customer, at prices that run from €359,900 to €525,500 against $325,000 in the United States.
Ford has until 16 October to say which European countries have granted approval. If the German page reads the same on the day the window closes, every one of the 500 is a bet on paperwork Ford has had since June 2024 to finish. The second thing to watch is the Competition: Ford has promised it as a numbered edition and priced nothing. If Europe's allocation is the standard car only, the buyers paying the most for a GTD are getting the slower of the two Ford has now shown.
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