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

Matt Kimberley

Updated: 10 Oct 2024

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.

Comments

I’m starting to think they should call it the Super Snake, the GT500 name, I’m pretty sure it refers to horsepower

No it’s an arbitrary number greater than 350 as in gt350. Shelby’s performance shop was 350 feet from the race shop

This is the biggest “F* You!” In the history of cars

No, that would be the GT40.

no the biggest F You was when Chevrolet and Hennessey came out the Camaro exorcist to compete with the dodge demon, it was lighter and had more horse power and was STILL slower than the demon
(the exorcist has 1000 hp and weighs 3880 pds.)
(the demon has 840 hp and weighs 4500 pds.)

laughs in S302

Saleen?

I’ve been waiting for Ford to make the Shelby GT500 able to make it around a corner again, and I wasn’t expecting that in a 700+hp car, but it looks like this might just be what I was looking for.

We are in a Golden Age of Automotive Goodness. A Renaissance for the Car Community. Let’s make sure it lasts for years on end. 😁

I saw a leaked document for technicians a while ago that showed what types of oil certain ford engines used and it had the gt500 labeled using the 5.2 voodoo but supercharged.