What The Mustang Still Gets Right In 2025
2025 Ford Mustang
Even my tester—with its relatively dinky 2.3L Ecoboost engine mated to a 10-Speed Automatic—manages to deliver that long-lost sensation of a machine built for you, not around you. From the moment you fire it up, it growls like it knows exactly why you're behind the wheel, and it isn't because you're looking for a working Chargepoint station.
The manual is still available but my automatic tester was fine - snappy in Sport mode, responsive when you paddle-shift it, and perfectly happy doing little redline pulls when the mood strikes, and it strikes often. I saw temperatures above 100 degrees during the test, but in the car, with the tunes and AC cranked and not much traffic, it mattered not a bit. Nor did a torrential rainstorm kill any of the fun. I wouldn't take it out in the snow, though.
2025 Ford Mustang
It also has buttons you can feel and twist. Still lets in enough road noise to remind you you're actually moving and burping like a trucker after a Waffle House breakfast. It doesn't have a special compartment to sanitize your glasses. It's not soothing.
The Drive
The steering has weight and the ride is firm but not stiff. You don't need to put on a helmet or memorize a touchscreen menu just to merge onto the freeway. You get in, punch the start button and it's 'Let's go cause some mischief.' The 2025 model does, however, have an ever so arthritic sound system which, for some reason, you have to shut off to choose your 'source.' (AM, FM, Sirius, Bluetooth) It's kind of like having a television you have to shut off to raise or lower the volume.
2025 Ford Mustang
It's a pony car so it doesn't have oodles of room in the rear but if you've got a kiddo or pooch, they'll be comfy back there. It retails, with all options, for $51,325.
You can also throw a guitar in the back seat, your amp in the trunk and still have room for snacks. It looks as good as it's ever looked, too - long hood, angry grille, the twin tailpipes. They haven't fixed what wasn't broken. It's also still rear-wheel drive in 2025.
Over the past five years, Ford's delivered consistent financial growth but faced significant EV challenges. Annual revenue climbed from $127.1 billion in 2020 to $184.99 billion in 2024, with trailing twelve-month revenue at $182.9 billion as of Q1 2025.
2025 Ford Mustang
After a COVID-driven loss in 2020, Ford returned to profitability in 2021, established stable earnings, and posted a Q4 2024 operating profit of $2.1 billion on $48.2 billion in sales . Its gross profit remains strong, and the stock is up roughly 87% over five years despite volatility.
However, Ford's EV ambitions have come at a steep cost—losing over $5 billion in both 2024 and projected similarly into 2025 within its EV and software units
In response, the company delayed or canceled models like a three‑row SUV and next-gen F‑150 and shifted strategy toward hybrids and commercial EVs.
In the meantime, their meat-and-potatoes Mustang's a 2025 banger.
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