Official word from Ford
says the next edition of the Shelby GT500
will be well-endowed. In fact so
endowed will the mad Mustang that it will come fitted with “the most powerful series production V8 in
the world”, according to a statement from Ford North America. Quite a dare this
is.
So what exactly are we working with here? Well, as the
brochure will clearly state, this is a 5.8-litre
supercharged V8 engine pulling out 494kW
of thrust and 855Nm of raw torque. There are no performance figures but we reckon
such numbers suggest a 0 – 100km/h dash well within the 3 seconds.
Jamal Hameedi,
Chief Engineer at Ford’s Special Vehicle
Team (SVT) Division had this to say about the beast: “Our goal is to create outstanding
all-around performance cars, not just stoplight-to-stoplight sprinters. We've
backed up this amazing powerplant
with a more refined chassis tuning that helps keep the rubber on the pavement
without punishing the driver's spine and six-pot Brembo brakes that dissipate speed with ease stop after stop.”
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