How has the 2025 Ford Mustang changed compared to the redesigned 2024 Ford Mustang? Our buying guide takes a closer look at the differences (and similarities) between these trendsetting muscle cars.
Key Takeaways
- Celebrate 60 years on the road with the 2025 Mustang’s limited-edition appearance pack!
- After a full redesign for 2024, Ford’s iconic pony car is more handsomely equipped than ever.
- Both Mustang model years offer the most powerful 5.0-liter Coyote V8 to ever leave a Ford assembly line. It’s good for 500 horses!
- Miraculously, the price of a new Mustang (starting at $31,920) hasn’t moved since last year.
Celebrate the Mustang’s 60th Anniversary
There’s a new option for 2025 — the limited-edition Mustang 60th Anniversary package! For 1,965 lucky customers, this appearance pack adds retro styling inspired by the original 1965 Mustang GT, with exclusive fender badges, side stripes, and wheels.
The Mustang 60th Anniversary Package includes:
- 20-inch wheels finished in Dark Gravity Gray with bright machined details and Vermillion Red aluminum center cap
- Available Space Gray, Carmine Red, or Black Onyx interior schemes
- Available Race Red, Wimbledon White, or Vapor Blue exterior colors
- Iconic Silver mirror caps (with Race Red or Vapor Blue paint) or body-color mirror caps (with Wimbledon White paint)
- Iconic Silver or Vermillion Red side graphics
- Unique grille mesh that combines the 1964 & ½ Mustang's original design with silver-accented nostrils that double as air intakes
- Smoked headlamp housing
- 60th Anniversary badges on fender and trunk lid
- Serialized 60th Anniversary instrument panel badge
Features & Packages: What’s Changed?
Outside of the aforementioned anniversary appearance pack, not much has changed between the redesigned 2024 Ford Mustang and its next-of-kin, the 2025 Ford Mustang. These seventh-generation Mustangs are available as the same six trim models (EcoBoost, EcoBoost Premium, GT, GT Premium, Dark Horse, and Dark Horse Premium), which in turn deliver the same standard lineups!
These Mustangs are more tech-savvy than models, with standard features that include the SYNC 4 infotainment system, a 13.2-inch touchscreen, and wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto connectivity. Every Mustang is big on high-tech safety, too, with standard blind-spot monitoring, lane-keeping assistance, and forward collision mitigation.
These sports coupes are also disarmingly comfortable! The EcoBoost and GT trims are equipped with niceties like dual-zone automatic climate control and a leather-wrapped gear shifter. Looking for more luxury? Check out the EcoBoost Premium and GT Premium. These Mustangs add a heated steering wheel, heated and ventilated front seats, and multi-colored ambient interior lighting. Both the Dark Horse and Dark Horse Premium are equipped a lot like the Premium models, but they also upgrade your comfort with MagneRide adaptive suspension and a premium 12-speaker sound system!
Powertrain Options: 2024 vs. 2025 Mustang
A lot of customers ask us, “What are the performance differences between the 2024 and 2024 Ford Mustang GT?” These Mustang trim models in particular are well known for their hearty power, compliments of their equally iconic 5.0-liter Coyote V8 engine. But as you may have guessed by now, there aren’t any changes for 2025 — both model years’ GT and GT Premium trims deliver 480 horses and 415 pound-feet of torque!
Even more spectacular, though, is the 2024 and 2025 Ford Mustangs’ new high-performance model, the Dark Horse. It features the most powerful version of the Coyote V8 that Ford has ever produced. Generating 500 horses and 418 pound-feet of torque, the Dark Horse and Dark Horse Premium take the Mustang’s swift, agile performance to another level altogether
2024 and 2025 Ford Mustang Powertrain Specs
- EcoBoost: Turbo 2.3L four-cylinder engine (315 hp, 350 lb-ft) and 10-speed automatic transmission
- Mustang GT: 5.0L V8 engine (480 hp, 415 lb-ft) and six-speed manual or optional 10-speed automatic transmission
- Dark Horse: high-output 5.0L V8 engine (500 hp, 418 lb-ft) and uprated six-speed manual or 10-speed automatic transmission
Starting Price
While the cost of just about every other new car has gone up for 2025, the price of a new Mustang hasn’t budged! Both the 2024 and 2025 Ford Mustang start at $31,920. As always, though, the cost of each individual model will vary depending on various factors, like trim model, equipment, tax, title, and other fees.
Your Next Mustang
Unless you’re lucky enough to score a limited-edition 60th Anniversary Mustang, there aren’t any notable differences between these model years! Of course, drivers who want to build their Mustang from the ground up will need to order the 2025 model. But we definitely won’t try to talk you out of taking the 2024 Mustang for a test-drive! Visit us at Jones Ford in North Charleston, SC, to experience the all-new seventh-generation Mustang for yourself.