The 815-hp Mustang circled the famous racetrack in 6:57.685, and next year Ford is going back to try to go even faster.

The Porsche Carrera GT, a car from 2004, was able to set a 7:12 lap time around the fabled race track thanks to modern tires.

Going where no American manufacturer has gone before? The Ford Mustang GTD looks to be the first sub-seven-minute Yankee at the 'ring.

Ford Mustang GTD is officially the fastest American production car to lap the Nürburgring Nordschleife, dipping below the seven-minute barrier.Officially, Multimatic Motorsports’ Dirk Müller looped the 12.

Ford’s most hardcore road-legal Mustang ever, the ‘GTD’, has just posted a Nürburgring lap time of 6m 57.6s at an average pace of 110.6mph. That makes it the fastest American production car ever around the Green Hell, and only the sixth 'standard' production car to go around in sub-seven minutes. Yeah, it do be quick.

Ford achieved its goal. As promised, the Mustang GTD completed a lap of the Nürburgring in under 7 minutes. The cost of setting this unique record was not small, but the Americans didn't seem to care at all;