The 2025 7th-generation Ford Mustang is still the king of the sports-car paddock — the alpha in a world full of wannabes. This is the third Mustang to wear Ford’s D2C platform as its underwear, and she still looks fabulous in it. The frock debuted in 2022, hit production in 2023, and remains Australia’s best-selling sports car, outselling all other cars in its segment combined — yes, that includes BRZ, GR86, and the ever-cute MX-5.
We’re in the GT Fastback Manual, the one you buy if your blood runs thick with petrol and poor decisions. Under that long, sculpted bonnet lurks the 5.0-litre fourth-gen Coyote V8, a snorting brute good for 345 kW and 550 Nm. It’s mated to a six-speed manual with rev-matching, because real men (and gay boys with a pulse) still shift for themselves.
The EcoBoost? Darling, that’s for people who sip oat milk and worry about tyre wear. The GT Coupé is the one that makes your neighbours hate you and random tradies fall in love.
The 2025 Mustang GT is a 345 kW/550 Nm thug in a dinner suit, all curves and charisma. The body’s smoother and tauter, with new tri-bar LEDs, hood vents, and a quad active-valve exhaust that practically moans your name when you press start. Four exhaust modes range from “suburban polite” to “Saturday-night feral,” and trust me, you’ll never use the first one.
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ABOVE: Ford Mustang GT
The LED light show when you unlock it is pure theatre — puddle lamps projecting the pony, animated sequences front and rear — it’s like drag night in Darlinghurst, but louder.
Inside, Ford’s gone fully digital: a 12.4-inch cluster with a cheeky retro look screen selection option and a 13.2-inch SYNC 4 touchscreen running wireless CarPlay, Android Auto, and a 12-speaker Bang & Olufsen system that makes even Kylie sound like she’s performing live.
The Pony on the steering wheel is still flat and tacky. A little profiling in the badge wouldn’t have kill Ford surely?
The leather-accented seats are heated, cooled, and power-adjustable, though you still have to yank a lever for the backrest. What is this, a gym membership test? Everything else screams modern muscle — metal pedals, ambient lighting, and a drift brake ready to ruin tyres and reputations in equal measure.
Tick the MagneRide suspension option and you’ll glide like Grace Kelly one moment, carve corners like Oscar Piastri the next. Steering is precise thanks to electric power assist with Normal, Comfort, and Sport modes.
Driving What. A. Peach.
Fire it up and the Coyote wakes with a snarl that sends small dogs scattering. It’ll try to behave — cylinder deactivation helps fuel economy (officially 13.6 L/100 km, officially optimistic) — but you don’t buy a Mustang to save petrol. You buy it to hear that howl echo off tunnel walls and feel your insides vibrate.
Brembo brakes (390 mm front, 355 mm rear) bite hard when things get frisky, and the limited-slip diff makes sure both rear tyres earn their keep. It’s rear-wheel-drive purity, 1,800 kg of old-school joy with new-school smarts.
Driver aids abound — AEB, blind-spot monitoring, lane-keep assist, adaptive cruise, reverse brake assist — though the lane monitor kept nagging me even when both hands were exactly where they should be. Naughty Pony.
Dimensionally, she’s 4.8 metres long, 2.1 wide, 1.4 high, and every centimetre of her is dripping attitude.
There are six drive modes — Normal, Sport, Slippery, Racetrack, Drag, and Custom — plus a launch control that’ll roast your tyres faster than a Mardi Gras BBQ.
It’s the Mustang distilled: loud, gorgeous, occasionally ridiculous, and impossible not to love. Mustang remains my firmly favourite GT
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Prices:
MLP
EcoBoost Fastback 2.3L 4cyl. Petrol Auto
$ 66,990
GT Fastback 5.0L V8 Petrol Manual
$ 78,990
GT Fastback 5.0L V8 Petrol Auto
$ 81,990
GT Convertible 5.0L V8 Petrol Auto
$ 87,667
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Alan Zurvas is the founder and editor of Gay Car Boys, Australia's leading LGBTQI+ automotive publication. Before launching GCB in 2008, Alan's automotive writing was published in SameSame.com.au and the Star Observer. With over 16 years of hands-on car reviewing experience, Alan brings an honest, irreverent voice to every review — championing value and innovation over brand loyalty.
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