{"id":23289,"date":"2019-01-16T14:53:45","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T18:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=23289"},"modified":"2019-01-16T14:53:45","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T18:53:45","slug":"monster-mustang-shelby-gt500-revealed-at-detroit-auto-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/monster-mustang-shelby-gt500-revealed-at-detroit-auto-show","title":{"rendered":"Monster Mustang Shelby GT500 revealed at Detroit auto show"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Detroit\u00a0<\/em>\u2014 Fear the Snake. Ford Motor Co. unveiled the most-powerful Mustang ever, the 700-plus horsepower Shelby GT500, at the Detroit auto show Monday\u00a0morning.<\/p>\n

The muscle car will take its place atop a Mustang lineup\u00a0that includes a turbo-4 powered base Mustang, V-8 powered GT\u00a0and high-revving GT350. For the first time in 50 years,\u00a0the legendary GT350 and GT500 badges will be on sale together in Ford showrooms.<\/p>\n

But where previous generations of the GT500 were drag-strip brutes compared to the more nimble, track-focused GT350, Ford says the third-generation GT500 will be an all-around athlete.<\/p>\n

“Historically, the GT500 was about straight-line speed. Now\u00a0this thing does everything \u2014 it’s a no-compromise muscle car,” said Ford Performance marketing chief Jim Owens. “Somewhere in heaven, Carroll Shelby is smiling. The GT500 was his favorite car.”<\/p>\n

Shelby was the legendary performance guru who took Ford racing to another\u00a0level in the 1960s with the LeMans-winning Ford GTs and steroid-pumped Mustangs. After the first GT500 was produced from 1967-1970, the badge was shelved until a 2007-13 production run.<\/p>\n

The third-generation car takes aim squarely at the current king of muscle, the Chevy Camaro\u00a0ZL1 and winged ZL1 1LE.<\/p>\n

Like the 650-horsepower Camaro, the Mustang will get its 700-plus horses (the final number is still to be determined by Ford’s engineering team)\u00a0from a massive supercharger atop of its V-8 engine. Engineers say the final torque number will be close to the Camaro’s 650.<\/p>\n

The GT500 uses the same 5.2-liter block as the\u00a0GT350’s 526-horsepower “Voodoo” V-8 (Ford engines get menacing nicknames). But its unique “Predator” engine will forgo Voodoo’s exotic flat-plane crankshaft, opting for a more familiar cross-plane crank instead.<\/p>\n

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Detroit\u00a0\u2014 Fear the Snake. Ford Motor Co. unveiled the most-powerful Mustang ever, the 700-plus horsepower Shelby GT500, at the Detroit auto show Monday\u00a0morning. The muscle car will take its place atop a Mustang lineup\u00a0that includes a turbo-4 powered base Mustang, V-8 powered GT\u00a0and high-revving GT350. For the first time in 50 years,\u00a0the legendary GT350 and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}