New 2025 GT premium with rear louvers and other exterior mods

[Starship Enterprise]

Hi All! I Got this beautiful GT Premium with only 4 miles on it. Has the 3.55 ratio option and variable exhaust, which is extremely fun! I was set on getting the Vapor Blue, but this silver was sitting in the lot and caught my eye. (It’s odd, I don’t see many 2025 silver GT’s.) So I traded in my 2006 I drove since 2007. I got the Ford Employee promotion which helped the price, and got a very decent trade-in.

Within the first week I did what I personally considered Must-Have exterior mods.

From the Ford website:
Front splitter
rear black out panel
rear spoiler

From CJ’s
aluminum rear window louvers…CJ’s had best price. Went even cheaper for Father’s Day…D’oh! Doesn’t that always happen?!?

from AM
gloss black 1/4 window louvers…only $60 for the pair. (I heeded the warnings and didn’t use the included tape. Got my own 1/2” 3M tape and adhesive promoter!)

Funny, every one of these parts is only held on by 3M tape. I prepped like crazy …and applying every piece was nerve wracking!

Personally, I am very happy with every part that went on and the final look. I’m 60 and found driving fun again. (My 06 GT was lowered and ride was rough, and my wife hated the Flowmaster drone). I have nicknamed the car Starship Enterprise, because it does look and feel like a damn spaceship to me. My 06 felt downright crude compared to this!

So I’m still in the break-in phase and finding reasons to go anywhere…lol. Incredibly fun to drive!

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[Sofa King]

She looks awesome... captain. Quite a leap from the '06... I had one too but traded it for an '18 (still shares the garage with the '24).

 

[Starship Enterprise]

Thanks! That was Sofa King nice of you!

 

[Paul's stable]

Hi All! I Got this beautiful GT Premium with only 4 miles on it. Has the 3.55 ratio option and variable exhaust, which is extremely fun! I was set on getting the Vapor Blue, but this silver was sitting in the lot and caught my eye. (It’s odd, I don’t see many 2025 silver GT’s.) So I traded in my 2006 I drove since 2007. I got the Ford Employee promotion which helped the price, and got a very decent trade-in.

Within the first week I did what I personally considered Must-Have exterior mods.

From the Ford website:
Front splitter
rear black out panel
rear spoiler

From CJ’s
aluminum rear window louvers…CJ’s had best price. Went even cheaper for Father’s Day…D’oh! Doesn’t that always happen?!?

from AM
gloss black 1/4 window louvers…only $60 for the pair. (I heeded the warnings and didn’t use the included tape. Got my own 1/2” 3M tape and adhesive promoter!)

Funny, every one of these parts is only held on by 3M tape. I prepped like crazy …and applying every piece was nerve wracking!

Personally, I am very happy with every part that went on and the final look. I’m 60 and found driving fun again. (My 06 GT was lowered and ride was rough, and my wife hated the Flowmaster drone). I have nicknamed the car Starship Enterprise, because it does look and feel like a damn spaceship to me. My 06 felt downright crude compared to this!

So I’m still in the break-in phase and finding reasons to go anywhere…lol. Incredibly fun to drive!

Car looks great I have a 06 GT I also bought new but I kept it so now my stable has a Shadow black GT and a Shadow black Dark horse I love them both.

 

[Ewags81]

love the color. Even though silver is common, i would've totally ordered iconic silver for the dark horse if it was available. i can't say i've seen a silver s650 in the wild. those body lines are poppin

 

[Starship Enterprise]

Thanks all!

Ewags…..Exactly! Silver is not a rare color, yet I have seen very few posted on forums or on the street.

It seems most popular color has been Vapor Blue and Black for 2025.

I was bummed Ford discontinued 4 very nice colors After 2024. I might have got that nice metallic red, or that metallic blue.

 

[Frogdog1]

Nice looking car. Can't go wrong with silver. As you can see, red is still around. I had a 2007 GT that some asshat caused me to total or die in it. She paid for that stupidity dearly as she should have.

Enjoy that hot-rod. Oh, and no matter how you break in your car, someone here will tell you that you're doing it the wrong way. The right way is your way.

 

[Starship Enterprise]

Thanks Frogdog!

I know people are passionate about their car here, and I just absorb all the info and experiences I am reading here, and sort of make a consensus decision.

Personally my break-in is try not to exceed 4,000 RPM, And vary RPM’s while driving long shots for the first 1,000 miles.

What I find interesting is the manual considers driving less than 10 miles as “Severe Driving Condition!” I guess I need to just take the long way to my corner store…lol.

 

[RLE55]

From CJ’s
aluminum rear window louvers…CJ’s had best price. Went even cheaper for Father’s Day…D’oh! Doesn’t that always happen?!?

Good looking car, good selection of mods. The rear window louvers, are they hinged at top in order to be raised to clean window?

 

[goodlettjr]

Really like the louvers on your car. The black against the silver is a great contrast. Also follows the body lines well. As I was reading what you modded, I wasn’t sure that was going to look good. Boy was I surprised.

 

[Starship Enterprise]

RLE55: Thanks! These are held on by 6 acorn nuts mounted to 6 aluminum posts on plates 3M taped to the rear window. Not as convenient as my older hinged ones I had on my ‘06, but oh well….lol.

goodlettjr: lol….Thanks as well! There’s a fine line between tasteful and tacky sometimes. But I knew the exact look I wanted and loved the look of louvers since I was a little kid…and that was a loooooong time ago. They are also very functional in helping keep the interior cool in the summer. That’s a fairly big flat piece of glass back there.

I didn’t want an overly aggressive wing or splitter either. No hate on them, I just wanted a little more understated. Just happy to have had so many choices!

Not to go OT, but here’s what I drove for 18 years before trading it in….I wanted a 70 Boss Mustang look. it was also lowered, and had a JLT intake and SCT tune. Some people even thought it was a ‘70…lol.

You could say there’s a look I tend to like…lol.

 

[mabcim]

Since you said optimal 3:55, I’m assuming it is an automatic?

The louvers look good on that color. On some cars they look overpowering, but not on that.

 

[Starship Enterprise]

Thanks! Yes, I have been reading opinions on rear louvers for these cars (on Reddit) and am surprised at the hate some have for them. As much as I wanted them, at first I was also hesitant about ruining the sleek look the car has. Once they were on, I was like…”OK, I can do this”

Yes, auto Trans. Trying to get used to the extra 5 gears After my ‘06. At least in sport mode it winds out more, but saving that mode mostly for after break in. I don’t like the paddle shifters…only good maybe for dropping a gear or 2 going up a steep hill. IMO shifting through 10 gears in the auto trans is just tedious IMO.

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