The new Ford Mustang GTD ‘Liquid Carbon’ is here to terrorise 911 GT3s

This is not a car. This is a Porsche 911 GT3 RS’s nightmare fuel. Welcome to the Ford Mustang GTD ‘Liquid Carbon’, a machine so scary it needs its own horror movie.

Despite being named after a friendly diesel Golf, it’s Ford’s way of making its Nürburgring charger even more badass, because clearly the regular car is way too tame.

And lo, Ford’s skipped the paint booth and replaced the sheet metal in the doors with bonded carbon fibre. The result is a car shod entirely in exposed carbon fibre. Indeed, “the carbon weave of the hood, roof, rear deck and rear wing match up perfectly down the midline of the vehicle,” said Ford.

Ford’s also thrown in the optional ‘Performance’ pack as standard, which means to this body of exposed carbon fibre comes new dive planes, a bigger splitter, a DRS flap for the rear wing, underbody flaps, and a meeting betwixt the car’s sound deadening and a really big bin.

Inside, you’ll find black leather and Dinamica microfibre suede on the door cards, centre console, dash and steering wheel. Plus some lime stitching. There’s also a “reflective centre gradient down the middle of the seats”, because, well, at this point why the heck not.

As a result of all this meticulous lightweighting, the Liquid Carbon shaves just under 6kg (around 13lbs) versus a GTD Carbon Series with the Performance Pack. Don’t spoil it all by having a massive lunch.

In fact, just don’t eat at all. Because the GTD comes with a very badass 5.2-litre supercharged V8 sending 804 American horses to the rear wheels. It’s the fastest production Mustang. Heck, it’s the fastest ever Ford. And it was briefly the fastest American car around the Nürburgring, before the wild Corvette ZR1X knocked it off its perch.

“When we were designing Mustang GTD Liquid Carbon, it was essential that these small details were present, because they speak to the care and attention required to both build a vehicle like Mustang GTD and to compete and win on the world’s stage with Mustang GT3," said GTD design manager Anthony Colard.

That’s right, this car’s been inspired by the Mustang GT3. Though as we said up top, we’re not sure it’s actually a car…