Ford announces the $325,000 Mustang GTD in honor of its turbojet propulsion vehicle
Ford unveiled its latest muscle car at the 2025 Detroit Auto Show. It’s not just a muscle car, it’s an American spirit Mustang GTD.
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The so-called “Fox Body” Ford Mustang, a third-generation car built between 1979 and 1993, enjoys something like the Renaissance that driven the nostalgia of recent times. Naturally, this is because young people are older than they are now when Fox bodies were on sale, and there is probably extra cash and spare garage space to start collecting these Mustangs from loans. How are foxes’ bodies these days? Ford is taking part in the action with a new FX package celebrating the Mustang defined by the 1980s.
This is not the first time Ford has recently been soaked in Fox-Body Lore. When the current Mustang arrived in 2024, its digital gauge cluster also includes settings that recreate the old school analog gauge packs of Fox Body. The FX package, of course, takes on much more nostalgia, including white badges, white wheels and retro “Mustang” lettering. Available in both Mustang GT Premium Trim Levels, both coupe and convertible, and with or without a performance package.
If it’s not teal, it’s not real
Ford doesn’t just choose white paint for FX packaging. Mustangs have to treat everything like a flat circle, so all the white ones you paint, especially painted with Oxford white, are shades available in the original Mustang. Used for rear glass “GT” badges, wheels, retro “Mustang” stickers (coupe only), and for “nostrils” in grilles in performance package variants.
It comes in two wheel designs, both evoking a classic fox body design. The version here uses a smooth turbo fan style. The other versions are for non-performance cars – the classic five spokes. Both wear colour-matched center caps with the “Mustang GT” lettering that Ford says is the new font (this happens to look like an old fox body font, but who’s on track closely?).
Oh, speaking of paint, the FX package introduces new paint colors for 2026 (also available for other ’26 Mustangs): Adriatic Blue Metallic. Simply put, it is the colour of rad teal (pictured here) – what is the fox age than that? Another new paint color this year is the orange Fury Metallic. There is no specific history linked to the Fox body. It’s worth mentioning as it hasn’t been offered on Mustangs since 2019.
Important Digital
If in the 1980s their Fox Body Mustangs came with a digital dashboard (including FX packages) like the ones that Mustangs today would get, then put aside how much people’s minds have been blown away if Fox tried to betray the interior of FX. Plaid-like sheet inserts do a lot of heavy lifting here, but don’t forget that there is always a Fox Body Gauge Cluster option. Not so obvious is the “Mustang GT” badge with dark alley interior trim borrowed from the Mustang Dark Horse model, subtle blue stitching and a dash on the passenger side.
Ford has yet to outline the prices of the FX package, but it does mention ordering a general ledger for the 2026 Mustang Lineup in late June 2025. But if you want to rock with a new generation of Mustangs along with the 1980s, you definitely get a peek at this.
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