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Miami Herald
16 hours ago
- Automotive
- Miami Herald
You Won't Believe What Makes the 2025 Mustang GTD Cost That Much
Earlier this week, Car and Driver first reported a leaked window sticker for a 2025 Mustang GTD submitted by the vehicle's owner, with the starting price reaching $327,960 after destination and gas guzzler charges. However, you may be curious to learn more about the exact features forming this exorbitant price tag, how it compares to competitors, and its track capabilities. We introduced you to the 2025 Mustang GTD on Thursday. Now, it's time for a deeper dive into this car's engineering, performance, and marketplace position. The 815-horsepower 2025 Mustang GTD's design emphasizes weight reduction, enhanced handling, and blazing speed with available forged magnesium wheels with a race-optimized strength-to-weight ratio, along with lightweight carbon fiber body panels, a carbon fiber driveshaft, and the available carbon fiber underbody aerodynamic tray. Even the titanium exhaust voicing the 5.2L V8 engine is ultralight, and handling benefits from front six-piston Brembo anti-lock brakes and 345 mm-wide rear high-performance summer road and track tires. Ford's 2025 Mustang GTD completed a Nürburgring Nordschleife lap in 6:57:685-the fifth-fastest time by a stock production sports car and only the sixth vehicle in its class to crack the iconic track's seven-minute lap barrier. The American automaker accomplished this feat through features like a dual-clutch, 8-speed rear transaxle connected to a carbon fiber driveshaft for significant power to pavement transfers and a near 50/50 front-to-rear weight distribution, helping it navigate the track's 73 turns and corners. Many of Nürburgring Nordschleife's turns generate high G-forces, but the 2025 Mustang GTD's short-long arm front suspension enhances lateral stiffness and tire/road alignment. Additionally, the GTD's dry sump oil system, the first-ever in a Mustang, optimizes performance by increasing oil capacity and reliability while reducing oil starvation under high G-forces. Ford complements these track-ready features with an aerodynamic rear wing for road-gripping downforce and front vents that reduce lift and drag. The 2025 GTD is masterful on the track, but its dual ride height also lends itself to surface streets. This Ford features Dynamic Suspension Spool Valve (DSSV) technology with an advanced suspension system that includes adaptive dampers, allowing ride heights to vary by nearly 40mm (1.57 inches) with the press of a button. Comparable 2025 Ford Mustang GTD rivals include Lamborghini's Huracán STO, starting at $344,778, McLaren's 750S coupe with a base MSRP of around $324,000, and Ferrari's 296 GTB, which sells from $346,950. Lamborghini's Huracán STO falls short of the Mustang GTD's 825 max horsepower at 630, and it's more focused on pure driving instead of track runs, but it's also lighter than its Ford counterpart. McLaren's 750S coupe falls shy of the Mustang GTD's horsepower at 740, but it offers a 0-60 mph time about 0.3 seconds faster than its competitor. Ferrari's 296 GTB gives the Mustang GTD the best run for its money in terms of horsepower at 819, but some may not prefer its hybrid powertrain. You wouldn't be wrong to label the 2025 Mustang GTD's price tag as eye-watering, and its cost rises significantly with added options. This Ford enters supercar territory with exotic materials, dynamic engineering, and a robust powertrain, but it's also a car you can enjoy both on and off the track. If you want to own the most exclusive Mustang ever, the GTD delivers plenty of thrills and style. Copyright 2025 The Arena Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Yahoo
05-05-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Driver flips $400,000 Lamborghini on California highway
(KRON) — A driver wrecked a 2023 Lamborghini by flipping the sports car on Highway 9 near Santa Cruz, California, on Sunday. The California Highway Patrol responded to the crash at 12:14 p.m. The car's occupants suffered minor injuries in the crash. CHP was unable to provide Nexstar's KRON with additional information about the crash. However, CHP's social media post suggests that speed may have been a factor. President Trump says he will reopen Alcatraz prison in San Francisco 'CHP officers used a patrol vehicle to push the Lambo off the roadway, preventing further crashes,' the CHP's Santa Cruz office shared on social media. 'This crash was preventable. Please slow down! Highway 9 is not a racetrack.' CHP did not provide the model of the Lamborghini. However, based on photos of the crash, the car appears to be a Huracán STO. Edmunds values the car at roughly $400,000. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
05-05-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Driver flips $400,000 Lamborghini near Santa Cruz
(KRON) — A driver wrecked a 2023 Lamborghini by flipping the sports car on Highway 9 in the Santa Cruz area Sunday. The California Highway Patrol responded to the crash at 12:14 p.m. Occupants of the car suffered minor injuries in the crash. President Trump says he will reopen Alcatraz prison in San Francisco CHP was unable to provide KRON4 with additional information about the crash. However, CHP's social media post suggests that speed may have been a factor. 'CHP officers used a patrol vehicle to push the Lambo off the roadway, preventing further crashes,' the CHP's Santa Cruz office shared on social media. 'This crash was preventable. Please slow down! Highway 9 is not a racetrack.' CHP did not provide the model of the Lamborghini. However, based on photos of the crash, the car appears to be a Huracán STO. Edmunds values the car at roughly $400,000. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
18-02-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Lamborghini Huracán STO marks the end of an era
It's a turn of the epoch, a closing of a chapter, the end of an era. The Lamborghini Huracán STO is making its final showroom laps. It will soon be replaced by the plug-in hybrid Lamborghini Temerario, which represents a tumultuous change for this supercar manufacturer and presages the first fully electric Lamborghini. But government laws must be met, and so the wizards at Sant'Agata are about to deliver the Huracán STO's electrified replacement. Thankfully, the Temerario will have pistons and still make an incredible noise while producing ferocious speed, just like any car wearing the raging bull it remains to be seen how its hybrid driveline makes the Temerario different from a Huracán STO, it's worthwhile to note that Lamborghini is far from the first maker of hybrid supercars. Ferrari has been producing hybrids since the 2013 Ferrari LaFerrari, and the first hybrid sports car, the Ferrari SF90 Stradale, was introduced in 2020. Still, for Lamborghini, the arrival of the Temerario represents something new. 'We were never in the race to be the first ones going plug-in hybrid,' said Stephan Winkelmann, CEO of Lamborghini, during an exclusive interview at Art Basel late last year.'It's also a lot about coming when the market is ready. And when we come, we want to be the best," he said. "But at the end of the day, it's the performance. We have to be the ones that are leading because otherwise, there is no reason to do it. Just to reduce emissions and not have an additional power impact on the car and performance will be a losing game. So we always said that the battery technology must help us to perform better than before.' Winkelmann understands that not all customers will accept a hybrid, though. 'We are conquesting new customers, and therefore, I think that the plus is much, much bigger than what we might lose.' With a moniker that explains its purpose, the 2022 Lamborghini Huracán STO is an automotive middle finger to the approaching truth that the future is electric. STO stands for Super Trofeo Omologata, which connotes that the Huracán is a homologation of the Huracán Super Trofeo Evo and GT3 Evo race cars. That's a fancy way of saying it's designed for regular track use as well as street use. Constructed mostly of carbon fiber, it features a rear wing that can be manually set to one of three positions and a roof-mounted air intake. Other stylistic flourishes are employed to make it easier for it to slice through the wind, with engineers doing what they could to extract every gram of excess all in the service of the Huracán STO's mid-mounted, naturally-aspirated 5.2-liter V10, the last 10-cylinder engine in production. Generating 631 horsepower and 417 pound-feet of torque through a 7-speed dual-clutch transmission, power is fed to the rear wheels, which steer like the front. It's also fitted with a mechanical limited-slip differential, brake-based torque vectoring, and three drive modes: STO for street driving, Trofeo for track driving, and Pioggia for wet weather. Reaching 60 mph takes 2.6 seconds, with a top speed of 193 mph. You know what you're in for when you climb behind the Huracán STO's wheel. There's no carpet, the door panels are simple carbon fiber shells with nylon straps, the infotainment and climate control screens are tucked low on the instrument panel to avoid distractions, and the turn signals and windshield wipers are actuated by steering-wheel-mounted toggle buttons. All of these small touches ensure you don't have to take your hand off the wheel to use some of the car's essential functions. Under a little red flap is the starter button, giving the impression that you are going to fire a missile, which you are. It emits a mechanical symphony of malevolence at a volume that only skilled racing drivers can comprehend. If you put it in Trofeo mode and maintain the revs above 4,500 rpm, your ears will bleed. Of course, you won't want to play any music because the engine behind you will do it for you. Its ingratiating wildness, however, makes it one of the best automotive dance partners and offers a first-rate primal automotive thrill. Like so many supercars, its personality is all its own. Nothing fully prepares you for this raging bull. Increased velocity? Instantaneous. Changing lanes? Quick and accurate. Cornering? Track deserving. The dual-clutch gearbox? Lightning-fast. It's exceptionally entertaining, reacting to even the smallest should not mourn the passing of the Lamborghini Huracán STO. Keep in mind that Temerario means "fearless" or "daredevil," two adjectives that are embodied by the twin-turbocharged, flat-plane-crank V8 and three electric motors that generate 907 horsepower. That's nearly as much as the V12-powered Lamborghini Revuelto Hybrid and far more than that of the Huracán STO. Of course, the Temerario weighs more, but its performance nearly matches the Huracán STO's 0-60 mph run at 2.7 seconds and a top speed of 213 mph. It will undoubtedly be ferocious fun, but will the electric motors civilize a car known for its rambunctiousness? We hope not. For the Temerario is a Lamborghini after all. And it still possesses an internal combustion engine. Love reading Autoblog? Sign up for our weekly newsletter to get exclusive articles, insider insights, and the latest updates delivered right to your inbox. Click here to sign up now!
