Summary
- The Ford Mustang GTD is a high-performance, street-legal supercar that redefines the muscle car genre and is expected to be released in late 2024.
- Brian Monaco, an automotive rendering artist, digitally played with the design of the Mustang GTD, creating two renderings that showcase different color combinations and added aerodynamic elements.
- Tinkering with the Mustang GTD in a digital manner allows for creative customization without the risk of damaging the expensive carbon fiber body panels and paint job.
So far this year, the auto industry has yet to fail to surprise its customer base. For instance, Toyota is giving the Land Cruiser another opportunity to make a dent in the off-road space. Ford has it own surprises too, revealing the Mustang GTD street-legal supercar-killer. The Mustang GTD is already an extreme creation, but Brian Monaco of Monaco Auto Design played with the idea of taking things further by digitally giving the Mustang GTD an aero package.
With a price of around $300,000, the Mustang GTD is over five times more expensive than the Mustang Dark Horse. But of course, there’s a lot of difference between these two ponies, although the Ford Mustang GTD would be a more desirable model given its greater rarity and the fact that it redefines a muscle car into a muscled supercar.
Tinkering With A Ford Mustang GTD With No Foreseeable Risk
Since the Mustang GTD is yet to enter production and arrive on the streets, it is still impossible to tinker with its exterior design, aerodynamics, and wheels. Gearheads with very liberal approaches to tuning and customization could easily dare make drastic changes to the Mustang GTD. Although Ford may frown at this idea, but it isn’t Ferrari who would really hate car owners for tinkering with their prancing horses.
Apparently, Brian Monaco, an automotive rendering artist and a design advisor from West Palm Beach, Florida, doesn’t have an actual Mustang GTD in his possession. But being an automotive rendering artist with expertise in graphic design, playing with the design of the Mustang GTD wouldn’t be a hard thing to do. All he needed was official images from Ford’s press release, a powerful computer with installed graphics software, and some image editing skills.
How To Make Mustang GTD Look More Extreme
Tinkering a Ford Mustang GTD in a digital manner is much better than doing so in the real world. This way, no one can ruin the carbon fiber body panels and paint job of a new Mustang GTD. Real-world tinkering wouldn’t be logically and financially advisable, as this would risk ruining a muscle car that’s worth $300,000.
With no risk at all, Brian would interpret the GTD with his Mustang graphic renderings. Doing so might have been a challenge for other people, but not for Brian, who seemed to have enjoyed his renders so much that he shared them in his Instagram account.
He actually made two renders, the first of which didn’t feature any changes in the aero elements. It has the Mustang GTD wrapped in the classic Ford Performance color combination, which entails a Ford blue finish with double white stripes.
The second image rendered of the Mustang GTD is apparently where Brian Monaco used his imagination to push the muscle car a little more extreme. He inverted the color combo – white body with blue double stripes – and adding extra front canards, rear wing extensions, as well as Ford-branded aerodisc-style wheels.
The Mustang GTD Will Go On Sale In Late 2024
As Ford imagined in its announcement, the Mustang GTD already looks like a perfect muscle car with well-thought aerodynamics, cooling aids, and other functional design. Ford described the design of the Mustang GTD as pure purpose. Its every line could drive aerodynamic performance at track speed, thanks to various elements such as its front splitter, and vented hood and fenders.
Customers may also enhance their Mustang GTD muscle cars with the available C-pillar mounted hydraulically controlled active rear wing. Ford is also offering an available aero package that includes a comprehensive underbody aerodynamic tray and hydraulically controlled front flaps that work in coordination with the active rear wing. These purposefully designed aerodynamic features should result in massive downforce balanced across the car’s front and rear.
Since Ford is touting the Mustang GTD as the quickest road-going Mustang ever, it needs a potent heart. So, Ford is fitting a purpose-developed supercharged 5.2-liter V8 with dual air inlets. It will boast as the highest horsepower street-legal Mustang from Ford, with a targeted output of around 800 hp. Only the upcoming 2026 Shelby GT500 would be more powerful. Ford will make the Mustang GTD available in late 2024 at the earliest.
Source: Monaco Auto Design on Instagram