2025 Ford Mustang GTD Liquid Carbon Wears Stunning (Non-Liquid) Carbon-Fiber Bodywork
Carbon fiber is an important part of the Mustang GTD, so Ford makes it the key styling feature of the Liquid Carbon by leaving it unpainted and totally exposed.
If you need to keep your racecar as light as possible, there is no better material to rely on for big pieces of it than carbon fiber. With the 2025 Mustang GTD not being based on the Ford Mustang GT3 racecar, carbon fiber is used extensively on the body, but you really can’t tell that normally because, well, it's painted. Ford thought that was truly a shame and decided to celebrate this wonder material in the Liquid Carbon edition of the Mustang GTD, which gets exposed carbon fiber bodywork and a handy 13 more pounds saved from its curb weight beyond even the standard Mustang supercar along the way.
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No, the paint that no longer is there doesn’t add 13 pounds to the Mustang GTD, in case that was what you were thinking. Instead, Ford has removed the regular GTD's metal door skins and replaced them with carbon fiber versions that are bonded to the metal door frames. The process used is the same as that used to attach the rear quarter panels to the GTD's body. While this door skinning process is done for the Liquid Carbon, the rest of the 2025 Mustang GTD lineup will not get the carbon door skins—making this edition the lightest GTD you can buy.
That’s not the only unique feature of the Mustang GTD Liquid Carbon, either. To match the look of exposed carbon fiber on the doors, fenders, bumpers, deck lid, roof, and hood, Ford uses a unique body color called “Alloy” that brings some harmony to the mostly black and lightweight material. This color is used on the roof rails, door handles, door sills, and turn surround. The standard Brembo brake calipers are also finished in a unique black color with a gloss-black “GTD” logo and features the Performance Package as standard equipment, too.
Further blending in of the carbon fiber is done by matching the parting line and weave pattern of the exposed carbon fiber on the hood, roof, bumpers, and decklid. The pattern creates a chevron look in the exposed weave and creates an equal and directional split between the right and left halves of the Mustang GTD Liquid Carbon.
This is then carried through the rest of the panels with angled top weave to keep the design harmonious across the entire car. While you might hear about carbon fiber being directional, there are many layers at work and the top layer weave can be decorative—as it is with the Liquid Carbon and its exposed carbon body panels—and not reduce the strength of the carbon material in any direction.
Inside, the standard 2025 Ford Mustang GTD interior carries over to the Liquid Carbon edition, but the seats are wrapped in a unique combination of leather and Dinamica suede with Hyper Lime contrast stitching with a reflective center gradient down the middle of the seats. The rest of the interior materials are finished in similar black suede, leather, and Hyper Lime features.
The 2025 Ford Mustang GTD Liquid Carbon is available to order now, and owners can expect deliveries to start in October. No pricing was revealed but we expect that announcement to be made closer to its release date, and that the price tag will be higher than the "normal" GTD's $350,000-ish MSRP.
Having experience in many forms of the automotive industry, Justin Banner has done more than just write about cars. For more than 15 years, he's had experience working as an automotive service technician—including a stint as a Virginia State Inspector—service advisor, parts sales, and aftermarket parts technical advisor (a fancy way of saying he helped you on the phone when you had trouble fitting your brakes over your aftermarket wheels and the like). Prior to his tenure as a full-time editor, Justin worked as a freelance writer and photographer for various publications and as an automotive content creator on YouTube. He’s also covered multiple forms of motorsports ranging from Formula Drift, drag racing, and time attack, to NASCAR, short course off-roading, and open desert racing. He's best known for breaking down complex technical concepts so a layperson can more easily understand why technologies, repairs, and parts should matter to them. At MotorTrend, Justin is part of the news team covering breaking news and topics while also working as a judge for MotorTrend Of the Year events and other major comparison tests.
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