The 50th Anniversary Shelby Super Snake Mustang Is A 740bhp Monster
It’s been a pretty big week for shouty American cars with V8s. We had the news about the Ford Mustang facelift, more details emerging about the Dodge Challenger SRT Demon and now this: the 50th Anniversary Shelby Super Snake Mustang.
As with the last Super Snake Mustang from Shelby American, the 50th Anniversary car straps a supercharger to the familiar 5.0-litre Coyote V8 to push the eight-cylinder anger well beyond 600bhp. It’s good for 660bhp in ‘standard’ guise, although if you tick the right options (which you absolutely should), that jumps to 740bhp. Lovely.
Thankfully, Shelby hasn’t just chucked a load of power to the rear wheels and left it at that. The 50th also gets upgraded brakes in the form of six-piston front/four-piston rear callipers from Wilwood, along with a new ducting to keep them cool.
The suspension has been given a thorough working over with new dampers, springs, anti-roll bars and bushes, while the exterior has been treated to a whole host of angrier body parts. Plus a smattering of 50th Anniversary badges, obviously.
Naturally this doesn’t come cheap: the total cost including the standard Mustang donor car comes to $69,995, before you tick that 740bhp option. But for a proper Shelby-tuned pony car with a silly power output and an enviable parts list, perhaps that’s not so bad.
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WIth the new independent rear suspension, maybe this will be able to handle all that power and torque. I realise that this has another use than the GT350R, but it will be exciting to see how they will match in performance. The prices isnt thta far off either (63k vs 70k)
Anyone with an older mustang or AE86 will tell you that a solid axle can handle quite nicely too.
Duh why not upgrade the power up to 850?
Just needed to overcome the Hellcats
Corvette C7 Grand Sport Yenko anybody?
It needs a blue, white and red livery and to be called “AMERICA edition”
It’s beautiful!
Jeremy Clarkson: “Powaaaa!”
Sorry guys. As a gt500 owner this is a disappointment. The Supersnakes have always been a done up gt500, and they actually offered more power than the new ones.
Gotta love the shrubbery they are putting in lately…
“The suspension has been given a thorough working over with new dampers, springs, anti-roll bars and bushes”
Good luck running from this one, pedestrians rubs hands together