New '700bhp+' Mustang Shelby GT500 Is Ford's Most Powerful Road Car Ever
Ford is fed up of playing second fiddle to Dodge in the power stakes, so to take on the Challenger Hellcat it's brewing a special supercharged Mustang
Something big is coming from Ford. The company has confirmed a new Mustang Shelby GT500 for 2019, and it’s going to have at least 700bhp.
It’s going to have a supercharged V8, most likely derived from the current 5.0-litre unit, and it’s going to be Ford’s most powerful road-legal production car ever. As you’ve probably guessed, Ford has had enough of being outgunned by Dodge’s 707bhp Challenger SRT Hellcat.
It follows the Ford-sanctioned Roush supercharger conversion that acts as a stop-gap 700bhp solution. Bank on functional aerodynamics and ‘track technologies’ in a car derived from Ford’s relevant motorsport programmes. We can’t wait to see (and hear) it.
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It’s 700+bhp people-mower and I want one
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I don’t care about a 700 hp supercar that i cannot afford. How about you bring the fiesta ST back to America Ford…Please.
Not too often I hear a factory muscle car like a Mustang referred to as a “supercar”.
im excited for this much very
Hope it would be a supercharged 5,2 “Voodoo” and not the standard 5,0 “Coyote”
my reaction,
I want it to be a hot V turbo setup in the Voodoo engine.
A turbo gt500? Weird
700hp? Sorry Ford, but it’s still far off the 840hp mark.
That’s what the 1000hp Cobra Jet is for.
Lmao it was barely controllable at low horsepower
if you’re talking about the last gen you’re right. That thing was sketchy, I saw a red one step out and it sounded like he was at 1/8 throttle max
The American car brands are now just fighting over who has the most horsepower.
Ford and GM have been fighting over the Nurburgring for a while, but then Dodge started its own power war, and showed that to the uninformed masses, power and top speed are the only numbers that matter. So now they have to catch up on a game they had decided to stop playing years ago.