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Rumormill: EcoBoost V8 Ford Shelby Mustang in the pipeline?

Here's one we've been hearing rumors about for quite a while – an EcoBoosted V8 Mustang. Put another way, a twin-turbo, direct-injected, V8 Shelby GT500. The first rumor we heard was about a twin-turbo 50th Anniversary Edition 2014 1/2 Mustang, which would be the very definition of the word "Sweet!" We asked about this mythical car point blank to several fairly high-ranking Ford execs, only to be stared back at in silence. Although one dude – who shall remain nameless – did crack a knowing smile and asked, "Who told you ... Read more →

SEMA 2009: Ford shows off Healing Heroes Network grand prize Shelby GT500 pair Frank Filipponio

In the Ford booth at SEMA this year, we spotted a matching set of 1967 and 2010 Shelby GT500 Mustangs. White with blue stripes, they looked incredible even in the unflattering lighting of Central ...

Shelby lowering price of $20k GT500KR hood after web outrage erupts Chris Paukert

When we drove the Shelby GT500KR at Miller Motorsports Park last May, we were impressed with the steps that Ford and Shelby had taken to make its new King of the Road a special vehicle. Not only ...

Hold Your Horses: 2011 Mustang details leak out on internet forum? Jeremy Korzeniewski

Some potential future Mustang news comes by way of an internet forum user who calls himself TheInsider. With a handle like that, he must know what he's talking about, right? We kid. But some of ...

Woodward 2009: The Ford Booth Tour Chris Shunk

Ford, as you likely already know, didn't enter bankruptcy this year, and the Blue Oval didn't need government funds to remain afloat, either. That's a good enough reason to throw a party, and ...

Dyno Tested: 2010 Shelby GT500 lives up to 540 horsepower rating 3 months ago on Autoblog

We already know the 2010 Shelby GT500 is incredibly quick. In our initial performance test of the car, we ripped off a 12.9 second pass despite our lack of drag racing experience, a slippery track and a stiff headwind. With an experienced driver and prime conditions we have no doubt that ...

REPORT: 2010 Ford Mustang GT500 production limited to 2,000 units [*UPDATE: FALSE] 4 months ago on Autoblog

With new sheetmetal, more power and an upgraded chassis, the new Ford Mustang GT500 was destined to be a hot for the 2010 model year. The pony king may have just just gotten a whole lot more exclusive, too, as production has reportedly been limited to only 2,000 units. Team Shelby forum member ...

First Drive: Ford Shelby GT500 Day 2 - Where do we sign? 7 months ago on Autoblog

The first day of our Ford Shelby Mustang GT500 drive was spent on a variety of public roads, almost all of which the car handled with skill. The next day was spent at Infineon Raceway on three different courses: a low-speed figure-eight, the drag strip, and the track. It was here that the car ...

First Drive: 2010 Ford Shelby GT500, Part 1 - Living on the (live axle) limit 7 months ago on Autoblog

The four pillars of Ford's SVT division are Performance, Exclusivity, Substance and Value. No one is expecting the 2010 Shelby GT500 to have any problem with the last three – it's the first one that means everything. Ford told us the five tenets of the new car all start with the word ...

Gestation of a GT500: Lead designer shares early sketches 9 months ago on Autoblog

One of Ford's biggest buzz vehicles this auto show season has been the Mustang. From the debut of the redesigned 2010 model at the LA Auto Show last November to the reveal of the 2010 Shelby GT500 at the Detroit Auto Show last month, Ford has managed to steal back much of the muscle car spot ...

Autoblog talks hot wheels with Ford's Performance Vehicle leaders 9 months ago on Autoblog

Fans of Ford's American SVT and European ST and RS models will have plenty to look forward to in the next few years. As part of the company's One Ford program to consolidate its platforms and designs, SVT and TeamRS have been brought together under a single organization led by Jost Capito. Earlier ...

2010 Ford Shelby GT500 uses cast iron, NOT aluminum block! 10 months ago on Autoblog

Let's make this perfectly clear. As much as Mustang fans (this author included) would like it to be otherwise, the 2010 Shelby GT500 does not use an aluminum block. At least a couple of times over the past few weeks, there have been online reports that the cast iron block of the last generation ...

Detroit 2009: The 2010 Shelby GT500 LIVE! [w/VIDEO] 10 months ago on Autoblog

After an extensive talk about the Ford's efficiency-focused future, in which we'll all be driving battery-powered vehicles with charging points at every parking space, President of the Americas Mark Fields, resplendent in his signature mullet, introduced the very now, very $1.50-gas-friendly ...

Detroit Preview: 2010 Ford Shelby GT500 bites back 10 months ago on Autoblog

When Ford introduced the new 2010 Mustang at the LA Auto Show in November, marketing boss Jim Farley promised the next chapter in the Mustang story would be revealed at the Detroit Auto Show in January. Well that time has arrived and to anyone who has been following the Mustang pattern over the ...

2010 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 cometh, order guide leaked online 10 months ago on Autoblog

At the 2010 Ford Mustang debut in Santa Monica, Mark Fields told us that the Blue Oval would reveal "another chapter in the Mustang story" at the Detroit Auto Show next month. If the camouflaged Shelbys running around Motown were anything to go by, the "next chapter" would come in the form of ...

Spy Shots: 2010 Shelby GT500 gets Jalop'd 11 months ago on Autoblog

Why wait for the Detroit Auto Show to see the 2010 Shelby GT500 when Ford's driving the thing around Detroit essentially undisguised? Jalopnik's Ben Wojdyla had the convertible version roll right up next to him at a stoplight in Royal Oak, which gave him the opening he needed to grab a bunch of ...

eBay Find of the Day: 2008 Shelby Super Snake 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click above for gallery of the Super Snake Despite the Shelby GT500KR's claim of supremacy over the dominion that is the open road, there is yet another Mustang that is even more extreme. Shelby's Super Snake package for the GT500 offers up to 725 horsepower and even more aggressive options for the ...

In the Autoblog Garage: 2008 Ford Shelby GT500 Mustang 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click above for a high-res gallery of the 2008 Shelby GT500 Mustang Sometime around late 2003, I first saw the car that was at that time still known as Condor. Condor was the Ford internal code name for the SVT version of the yet to be publicly shown S197 Mustang. At that time, most everyone ...

First Drive: 2008 Shelby GT500KR, Part 2 1 year ago on Autoblog

Our initial drive of the Shelby GT500KR on public roads revealed that Ford, SVT and Shelby had addressed many of the issues that we had with the standard GT500. The KR's revised suspension is better balanced and more capable of handling the excessive amounts of horsepower and torque that the ...

First Drive: 2008 Shelby GT500KR, Part 1 1 year ago on Autoblog

I have to admit, the Shelby GT500 was somewhat of a letdown. I have no complaints about the 500 horsepower or the muscular lines, but at nearly 4,000 pounds, it's got a serious weight problem. The iron block, 5.4-liter V8 and the addition of a supercharger puts much the weight in the worst ...

In the market for something Unique? Check out their auction online 1 year ago on Autoblog

We've covered the scandal involving Unique Performance from the very beginning, and it now looks as if this sordid tale finally might get a bookend. If the idea of scraping off 13 gallons of bondo doesn't scare you, maybe you'd be interested in bidding on one (or more) of the 44 leftover Mustang ...

Round 4: Unique Performance execs face 25 felony charges 1 year ago on Autoblog

Just two days ago, we reported that Unique Performance was in hot water. They had miserably failed to deliver hand-crafted continuation Shelby 427 GT500 "Super Snake" Mustangs to customers who had put up $7 million worth of deposits. Frustration grew to boiling anger when customers heard that the ...

Unique Performance used prisons and buckets of Bondo to build Mustangs 1 year ago on Autoblog

This just keeps getting more interesting by the day. Back in 2002, Carroll Shelby partnered with Unique Performance to produce continuation Shelby 427 GT500 "Super Snake" models. Only one "Super Snake" was built in 1967, so each of these "new" cars, built on a vintage 60's Mustang platform with a ...

VIDEO: Newest Knight Rider spot arrives 1 year ago on Autoblog

One week from today, we'll be watching Knight Rider, the 2-hour telemovie that resurrects KITT as a new car (Mustang) with a new voice (Val Kilmer), a new driver (Mike Traceur, son of Michael Knight), and, if ratings are good enough, a probable weekly gig in primetime next Fall. But lets not get ...

2008 Tokyo Auto Salon: Nissan GT500 GT-R live! 1 year ago on Autoblog

click above for more live and studio shots of the GT500 GT-R The return of Godzilla to SuperGT kicked off last week with the official unveiling of Nissan's GT500 GT-R and our colleagues at Autoblog Chinese snapped off a dozen shots of the race-ready coupe in its new black and red livery. Nissan ...

Carroll Shelby's personal GT500 coming to Barrett Jackson 2 years ago on Autoblog

Click the image above for more pics of Carroll Shelby's 1969 Shelby GT500 When the GT500 KR was unveiled at New York this past spring, we pressed Ford's SVT team as to why the SVT badging was absent from their creation. Their answer was so simple and obvious that it bears repeating. A 500 HP SVT ...

Shelby GT500KR now rated at 550 HP? 2 years ago on Autoblog

Click image for photo gallery When Ford first announced the Shelby GT500, the horsepower rating the automaker gave SVT's delicious new creation was 475. As we're all well aware, the car's actual rating wound up being 500, and the rest, as they say, is history. Fast-forward to April 2007 in New York ...

Shelby GT500 Super Snake snagged in the wild 2 years ago on Autoblog

Click image for photo gallery The massively-powerful Shelby GT500 Super Snake isn't going to officially debut until later this weekend at the Mid-America Ford Performance and Shelby Meet, but that hasn't stopped Mustang Evolution from snagging and posting the first real shots of the ride ahead of ...

StangNet's Glassback GT500 project 2 years ago on Autoblog

click above image to view more pics of the StangNet Mustang GT500 StangNet.com is putting the finishing touches on its latest project car, and it's a doozy. Of course it's a Mustang, a modified GT500 to be exact. Teaming up with Classic Design Concepts, a mini-automaker all its own, takes the ...

Shelby releases Super Snake GT500 details 2 years ago on Autoblog

click above image to view high-res version Amy Boylan, President of Shelby Automobiles, Inc., has released the first official details on her company's latest Mustang iteration, the Super Snake GT500. First, you'll need a Shelby GT 500, the base price of which is $40,930 according to Ford. Now, ...

Autoblog Podcast #64 2 years ago on Autoblog

We're back with #64 after being laid low by illness and schedule last week. Starting it off is some analysis of the 430HP LS3 Corvette, which we were lucky enough to see unveiled in Bowling Green, KY. 430 horses in the base car...nice. Speaking of rear-wheel-drive sports cars, there's yet another ...

More Mustang Madness: Steeda uncorks its own GT500 2 years ago on Autoblog

Click image for high-res photo gallery of the Steeda GT500 Yes, kids: it's another Mustang. Today's addition to the ever-lengthening list of ponycar variants offered by Ford, Shelby, Saleen, and others comes from big-time Ford aftermarket presence, Steeda. The Pompano Beach-based company has ...

Ford officially announces GT500 Red-Stripe package 2 years ago on Autoblog

click above image to view high-res pics of the GT500 Red-Stripe package Last week we told you that Ford was getting ready to release yet another special Mustang trim package. Today they made the official announcement. The Red Stripe Appearance Package is available on the ...

Ford readies Shelby GT500 Red Stripe Appearance Package 2 years ago on Autoblog

click above to view a few more images (not high-res, yet) in the gallery Ford's getting ready to release yet another special Mustang trim package. This time, the recipient is the top dog Shelby GT500. The big news isn't really that big at all in the grand scheme of things. The Red Stripe Appearance ...

Screw You, Top Gear! - Kenne Bell pumps up the GT500 2 years ago on Autoblog

click the image above for the gallery Here's Top Gear's cure for their idiot dyno test that proved nothing. As much as we love Top Gear, their derision of the GT500 for producing a "mere" 447 horespower on a chassis dyno is pure BS. A 10-percent loss through the drivetrain is stellar, yet the spin ...

HP 101: Top Gear provides false info on GT500 horsepower rating 2 years ago on Autoblog

var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/hardware/Horsepower_101_Top_Gear_provides_false_info_on_GT500_horsepower_rating'; Someone help us understand what's going on here. In the latest episode of Top Gear, Richard Hammon revisits the Ford Shelby GT500 that the British motoring show tested late last ...

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