2020 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 vs New Chevy Corvette C8 | Which One Is Better?

which

is ladies and gentlemen this of course is the new

ford

mustang

shelby

gt500

and it will hit dealerships in the fall you know what other cars will hit dealerships very soon yes the new

chevy

corvette

c8 and you may get this very simple question what is the difference between the new Shelby and the new event and in this video we will let you know because Ford dropped an important number and that number is 10.6, what is 10.6? Well, stay tuned to find out. Of course, the biggest difference between the new Corvette and this Shelby Mustang is not just the engine, but also where it's located in the vet, of course, it's the mid-engine and here in the Mustang, it's where it's always been, Up front, now of course the vet has the new LT2 and this one has a 5.2 liter V8 engine producing 760 horsepower and 625 pounds of torque mated to a seven speed dual clutch.

The vet or at least the new starter

corvette

will have a 495 horsepower engine, so horsepower wise the

mustang

has it ahead. Much now, both the vet and this new Shelby are going to generate a lot of heat; In fact, 760 horsepower generates so much heat that this GT500 has 50 percent more cooling area than the GT350. Now, to get 760 flywheel horsepower, you have to put over 800 crankshaft horsepower, as one of the lead engineers explained to me how important cooling is and how much cooling that engine has, given that the supercharger It is belt driven from the motor. You have to overcome its parasitic loss to be able to We are effectively generating 850 horsepower in the source

which

is heat.

In terms of the engineering development of this program, we got to the end of our analytical approval phase, where we were like with pencils and then we built prototypes and the cooling was the last big mystery for us we knew it had to be cooled for our resistance of 24 hours and our capacity sustained. We had to be able to run a track session with a full tank of gas without loss of power and that was the goal and that required a lot. of innovation around cooling and we had to redesign the cooling system several times and what that leads to then is what the vehicle looks like to cool it, it had to have massive front openings and what that results in is obviously massive cooling. capacity but it puts a lot of air in the hood which we had to deal with, that's why you see the hood vent and it's also the reason you see the hood pins, you know when you hit top speed on this thing with that amount of air coming in through the coolers, you know, it was an arch in the hood, you know, so we had to close the hood and that's fundamentally why the front end looks the way it does.

It's about cooling the new c8. lt2 of course is normally aspirated but this 5.2 liter

shelby

v8 is not, it's supercharged, it has a supercharger the size of my forearm, does that mean the vet won't be supercharged at some point? Hold your breath because you have to. I know Chevy keeps some horsepower under its hat. I remember when we talked and you did the next-generation Silverado and you said it was kind of a fist in the wind. Yes, there was something like that. Is there some kind of analogy? you had in mind um for me there's probably a light fighter jet thermodynamics the vet and the mustang have another thing in common and of course they're both available with only one type of transmission and it's a dual clutch in the mustang.

It's a seven speed and the vet is an eight speed now, why is there no manual? Well, probably because with that much power you'll probably have a hard time shifting it yourself and a dual clutch will always be more efficient. It will be faster and it will probably be a lot faster on the track, so when we made the decision on the transmission, we had the option of making a manual like we have today in the GT350 to really achieve some really impressive performance numbers. We wanted the car, our 10 speed doesn't have the torque capacity, it doesn't have the ability to customize it as much depending on the driving mode.

Porsche pdk gt3 was our benchmark in terms of transmission functionality and I think we nailed it, but Yes, the transmission decision was as much about what is the best performing transmission we could put in the vehicle. The last thing we want to do with a brand new engine like ours is start shifting gears. Check it out, this Shelby GT500 has carbon fiber wheels, in fact the carbon package on the new Mustang is 18,000, it starts at 70 and if you check all the boxes you get all the bells and whistles, make over a hundred thousand dollars, now Chevy has said the new vet will start at sixty thousand dollars but I bet that one won't be available for at least a year because you can bet that not only will this car be overpriced but so will the corvette, so a sixty bet thousand dollars or a seventy thousand dollar Shelby, that's probably a couple of years away, so right now you might be wondering if the corvette and this mustang will compete for the same customer.

That's a very good question in the past the answer probably would have been no, but today when you think about If the Corvette has ascended to the world of supercars and Ford says that, in practical terms, it's also a supercar, so yes , I bet there will be some cross buying, I think historically it has been two different customers, given Corvette's pricing strategy and there may be more cross buying, yes, because they say 60,000. I'm not sure that car is at the dealership , but yeah, I don't know if you can find it. One, but at least not the first year, I think we have taken our GT500 in some measures to supercar territories, so I think that at the attribute level we have taken it to their world, at a price level. going down a bit for the mid-engine content, it will be interesting to see how customers react to that, yes, it will be interesting to get out on the track and see which of these two iconic American cars is the faster of the two is on my list of things to do, I bet so, so the question of course is snake or stingray, of course the snake will be available first starting this fall, the corvette early next year, but that's close enough to so you guys can cross shop now let's talk numbers

chevy

says zero to 60 in three seconds for the new c8 and

ford

of course it says 10.6 seconds from zero to 100 to zero and how fast from 0 to 60 well, I asked the engineer that same question and the The number he announced today was 10.6, which is 10 seconds to go from 0 to 100 and back to zero, yes, so we are very convinced that it really is a total measurement of the vehicle, the power and torque you get on the dyno, enabled by the exhaust. systems, of course, but that's really just a powertrain number to put it in the vehicle's total zero to 100 back to zero in 10.6 seconds is really closer to supercars than our core competitive set.

Today we gave the analogy that you know you can. Do this over 800 feet total, which is less than the deck length of an aircraft carrier and some of our top competitors would be swimming off the end of the ship. Why isn't there a number from zero to sixty? We're looking to do a very specific type of timing, yes, and we're still working on fixing it through the appropriate certifications. I guess it will be less than five seconds. Is it fair to say that it will be? uh, they will be half of three or

better

yes, okay, very good, thank you very much, the car does everything well.

It would have been easy to make a straight line car and we've done track cars before to get a car to do that. everything really very good uh it was the goal uh we have known how to make supercharged engines but the transmission really is a really cool factor with this car well that just leaves a question which of these American cars is faster well the only way to find out is to hand them over to our race driver, Paul, and have them drive him around the track, so as soon as we can get our hands on both of them, we'll pit them against each other and find out if that's the case. ford or es chevy can't wait until next time thanks for watching remember to visit tflcar.com for more news and of course shelby vs stingray vs snake vs mustang vs well you know a lot of names see you next. bye time