The Ford Mustang is approaching a big milestone: the model’s 60th anniversary. Ford is celebrating by offering a special 60th Anniversary Edition of the Mustang, but before you get too excited, know that you can’t just go out and buy it.
The special edition Mustang is called the 2025 60th Anniversary Brittany Blue Mustang GT. It comes pre-configured so there are no options. Outside, in addition to special “60 years” decals and red “5.0” badging, the Mustang gets painted in a special Brittany Blue paint. It also comes standard with a 10-speed automatic transmission, active valve exhaust, Brembo Brakes and a 3.55 Limited-Slip Rear Axle
Inside there’s Space Gray leather seats, GT Premium Package and a 12-speaker B&O sound system. All this can be yours for the price of $62,245 or just over a thousand bucks less than a Mustang Dark Horse. Now in any other instance, if a buyer was interested in this thing, they’d just wait until it arrives at their local Ford dealer, or they’d place an order. Ford is doing things different this time around.
The automaker says its giving buyers a “chance to be one of the lucky few” to get their hands on this Mustang. In order to buy it, you first have to enter the automaker’s sweepstakes.
On August 19 at 9 p.m. eastern, entries for the sweepstakes will open. After the closing of the entry window Ford will select winners and notify the winners will be notified by email. Only then will those winners be able to buy the Mustang. You read that right. Rather than giving the car away in a normal sweepstakes or just allowing people to buy it, Ford is giving people the chance to win a chance to buy the car.
Reading the terms and conditions, Ford will be moving fast and not making many of the Mustangs. The sweepstakes is ending just a day after entries open. Ford says that on August 20, 250 winners will be chosen. Once chosen, those people will have just seven days to confirm whether or not they’re going to go through with the purchase. In the event the person decides not to go through with it, either another person from the entry list will be chosen — in numerical order — or the car will get sent to a dealer as an allocation.
Cars will also be sent to dealers as allocations if Ford finds that there aren’t enough interested buyers within two months of contest ending. So if you’re interested in one of these special edition Mustangs, you can waste your time and enter for a chance not to be chosen. Or you can just wait around and see if one of these things will eventually end up at the dealer. And considering everything, it’s probably just easier to go for the latter option.
