mustang gts?

Chythar said:

There's no way to tell a 1995 GT and 1995 GTS apart just by looking at the VIN, so you see GT/GTS. Short of ordering a build sheet form Ford, the only way to tell is to inspect the vehicle and see what parts it has on it. Or more appropriately, what parts are missing.

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One way to sort of find out is to check out your data sticker on the door jamb and look for the interior code. 6F RED, 6J BLACK, 6S SADDLE 66 OPAL are V6 and GTS codes. GT models do not have these interior codes, they have a 2 or 4 (Leather) in front.

Since GTS could be ordered with any options you wanted, I think you may still have a GTS with a GT interior code, but I don't think you would have a GT with a V6 interior code, so I think that is a pretty good sign.

If you have the original window sticker, I think the GTS was an option code 248A.

I have a GTS with the 6J interior, but I don't have my title handy to see what it says on it.

Is the car original? If so, a dead giveaway will be the seats. The GTS has V6 seats. They look completely different than the GT seats. Unless someone pulled a set out of a junked V6 and put them into a GT. Then there would be a GT with V6 seats...

The GT had lighted visors as standard equipment. So, if your visors are not lit up, then it COULD be a GTS (of course, someone could have just changed them out to fool you)...

It may actually be easier to confirm what you do not have that is standard on a GT to see if you truly have a GTS

The GT will ALWAYS have:

Spoiler
Fog-lights
Lighted visors
GT seats
Power windows / locks / trunk popper thingy

But, all of this could conceivably be switched, so...that being said, I doubt it would be worth the time and effort to "fake" a GTS. But, who knows. People are a lot weirder than you might think. And, some of those suckers are pretty rare (like there are 25 that are Vibrant Red - paint code ES I believe).

You really need the window sticker. It will say if it is a GTS or a GT.

The VIN does not code for GTS as far as I can tell:

1FA = Ford Motor Company USA Ford passenger car

L = driver/passenger air bags

P40 = Coupe
P42 = Coupe GT (this is the number for the GT or the GTS)
P42 = Coupe Cobra
P44 = Convertible
P45 = Convertible GT
P45 = Convertible Cobra


4 = 145hp V6
T = 215hp V8 (this is the number for the GT or the GTS)
D = 240hp V8 (Cobra)
C = 300hp V8 (Cobra R)

0-9 or X = Check Digit

S = 1995

F = Dearborn, Michigan

The numbers after the F are the production number. So, 000001 would be the very first to roll off the line in 1995.

Now, I have seen on certain websites that there is "POSSIBLY" a P41 VIN. If they actually exist, then I would assume that would signify a GTS and it would mean your VIN looks like:

1FAL P41T X SF XXXXXX (where the Xs can be any number)

I have never actually seen one of these VINs, so I have no idea if it is true or not...

Another bit of information I have found floating around pertains to the options you could get on the GTS. I have read that "A GTS can get any option available on the V6." So, it could be pretty loaded up and still be a GTS I suppose.

That's what I have discovered digging around on the web. It may be true or it may not be. If anyone can do any better, feel free...

Titles are useless as a means of figuring out vehicle specific information, at least in my state. My state can't even figure out that if they have no money they can't spend money. I don't trust them to know jack crap about a car.

For example, Michigan titles my Mustang GT as a subcompact. Yeah, I would group it in there with an Aspire; how about you? I have seen a title for a Suburban that says "van" and for a minivan that says "station wagon." A Jeep Grand Cherokee, for what it is worth, is also a station wagon apparently.

I think the 248A is on one of the door stickers too. It was on my old GTS.