It's difficult to express how remarkable it is the world's most effective creation V8 engine is created in Michigan. And much more incredibly, the automobile it is stuffed into may be had in the figures, not six or seven.

FAST FACTS
2. Ford promises a 3.7 second 0-60 time plus a high speed of more than 200 miles per hour.
3. For $ 6, Track Pack and 500 Performance Package provides flexible Bilstein shocks, a limited-slip differential and new wheels in addition to coolers for transmission, your motor oil and rear differential.

INCREDIBLE PERFORMANCE FIGURES

Oh yeah - then they strapped on a massive supercharger that is comparable to about 2.3-liters of displacement. After every one of the facts were drivability taken under consideration as well as sorted out, the engineers were honored with an official standing of 662 hp and an equally remarkable 631 pound - ft of torque.

Quartermile times can be found in at 11.6 at 125 mph, while provided enough space the Shelby includes a high speed of more than 200 mph.

The excessive rate possible includes a advantage to fuel economy also; that ultrahigh sixth gear assists the Shelby squeeze out 15 mpg around town and to 25 mpg to the freeway. Therefore despite the enormous upsurge in efficiency, the Shelby GT500 still skips the tax.

Large developments for the auto's aerodynamics ensure it remains more secure at those absurd rates. And cooler also. Provided all the pipes, we might not be astonished to discover that half of the GT500's 3,850-pound curbweight is composed of fluids...

PRODUCING 662-HP SIMPLE TO PUSH

Fortunately, Driving the GT500 is not the daunting prospect it might be. Besides a closely-spaced gearbox that sometimes has you wondering if you are in fifth as opposed to third, this most powerful Mustang is pleased enough in urban settings. The suspension is powerful enough, but not excessively harsh, and just to the roughest patches of paving does that dwell rear axle make itself known.

As with other goodold muscle cars, the Shelby utilizes staggered wheel sizes, even though no iron was actually built with tires as tacky as these. Large 15inch Brembo front brakes help provide the Shelby into a stop with extremely little play as well as in not a lot longer than one hundred feet.

TRACK READY

During our limited lapping with Ford's newest, the Shelby's acceleration is really not as breathless as we had anticipated. The engine's electricity delivery is quite a bit too easy without any great surge towards red-line. If you desire only a huge wall of reachable torque.

Steering is fairly responsive for something so large, and sometimes you wonder how it might maybe hold on for such a long time. Definitely the sticky tires deserve a lot of the credit, but Ford's fourmode grip and stabilitycontrol systems do a lot of the heavy-lifting also.

The highlight attribute we are most impressed with is the integral launch management, which first debuted on this past year's exceptional Boss 302. Welldesigned and simple to utilize, it is the best method to hold those rear tires from turning to pricey smoke and sound.

Speaking of sound, the large V8 is significantly vocal and creates an awesome roar under load which is better appreciated using the windows down. Or you might spend a bit more cash and receive the model to acquire an even more unfiltered experience.

MUSTANG VS. CAMARO

Those exceptional performance-centered alternatives include another $6,500 towards the cost, but should you do not spend time in the strip or track, you had become over good skipping them completely.

In terms of competition is anxious, there is actually just one - the 580 - hp Chevrolet Camaro ZL1, that was Large Dog for approximately two blinks before Ford unleashed the Shelby.

Like all Camaro versus. Mustang comparisons, the Chevy is bigger and heavier.

Despite the truth they are priced in just a couple hundred dollars of one another, opportunities are there will not be much crossshopping between them both. After all, Ford enthusiasts are Ford enthusiasts. And not the two shall meet...

THE VERDICT

It wasn't that long-ago if the topline Mustang SVT Cobra had 320 hp. That looks fairly quaint given the crazy amounts that Ford's new headliner creates. With over twice the energy of the vehicle from a little over ten years ago, the Shelby GT500 exists at all-in this age of hybrids, fuelsipping diesels, electric vehicles and overregulation ought to be celebrated.