Ford Mustang SHELBY GT500 Review: The MADDEST Muscle Car! | 4K

this is not your typical

mustang

this is the

mustang

shelby

gt500

for this mustang

ford

has combined aggressive styling with extreme aerodynamic parts and a 5.2 liter supercharged v8 engine that generates 760 horsepower, all in an attempt to create the

muscle

That's a pretty bold ambition, so I guess we'd better test if they got it right, right? Didn't we do a quick sound check? That's disgusting and we can't do this on cold tires, obviously, so block the line, oh, the conversation is so fast, the conversation is crazy. 847 newton meters, my God, and that noise is the loudest, I'm not kidding, it's not the loudest production car I've ever heard in my life, it sounds like a lion with a toothache being kicked.

There are actually four levels to the escape. I'm in normal mode. Right now and I can barely hear myself think, but then there is sport and track, but come on, there isn't a track in the country where they don't black flag you if a car makes this kind of noise, it's unnecessary, genuinely. it feels absolutely mega i bought a coyote mustang because i thought it was crazy having 450 horsepower from a 5 liter v8 is nothing to sneeze at believe me but this thing makes over 300 extra horsepower plus it doesn't feel like a mustang feels like a completely different animal the source of that noise is not the coyote engine that the normal five liter mustang gt has and it is not the voodoo engine of the more powerful gt350r, this is Ford's most extreme v8 so far with a name In predator code for this they have lowered the compression so it can take more boost from the 2.6 liter Eaton supercharger to produce more power.

The only problem is that they look spongy popsicles. What is all this Ford? Where is my manual? I'm in a powerful car that I want to take. control of the situation I go through the checkout myself, the reason is simply bragging rights. Ford wanted the GT500 to be the fastest accelerating

muscle

car on the planet and frankly there's no way to achieve that if there's some meaty idiot in charge of the gear shifts, but the ultimate in acceleration, the gear shifts need to be controlled through the machine, which can upshift in 80 milliseconds, but does the system really work well?

Let's see if it's justified. We have launch control, very easy to operate by just pressing the snake button. and then you go into the track apps and you launch the control, you set your rpm and then you hit the brake on the accelerator and then you send oh, it's fast, but not as fast as you might expect without the help of a sticky drag track and the perfect conditions. The front-engine, rear-wheel drive layout results in a time of four seconds, not 62. Once on the move, it's fast, but off the line it struggles. The other problem with the

gt500

is that it is a pain to live with if you can even buy one of this type.

The car is not available in the UK, meaning it is only available in left-hand drive, meaning it is not a good everyday driver. The noise bothering locals when leaving intersections is a nightmare. Overtaking is downright dangerous and not the type of vehicle you want to drive. If you're the shy type to pull out and then there's fuel economy, this car, even when driven normally, struggles to see double figures, which means you'll be lucky to get 100 miles on a full tank, it's the type of things that will make you want. Just leave it parked, but fortunately the GT500 offers the same pleasure when stopped.

It's a good-looking car, although isn't it absolutely mega in this green color? And the best thing is that it only cost 81,000. what 60 grand in real money, plus I love the design flourishes you get because it's a Shelby, you have snake badges around the car, this huge Shelby front splitter, as well as this huge power dome on the hood, and that's not there for show either because Well, let me show you how you press these two buttons, one on each side, and you can see the beginning of the show, the 5.2-liter Predator engine with a supercharger bolted right on above, below the Ford Performance Shop stand.

I love the fact that it's not hidden. under a shitty plastic cover and it's there taking pride of place, the engine itself is hand built by one man with a support team on the niche line at the Romeo plant and at the end of the process, he signs your name on a plate using I guess a screwdriver on many performance cars that are hand built they sometimes pre-print a plate and then place it on top of the engine, but that's just metal on metal, a lovely touch around the side that you have 20 inch wheels wrapped around.

Michelin Pilot Sport 4S rubber 16 and a half inch steel brake discs with huge Brembo brake calipers and I love the detail here on these side skirts, a really nice touch, plus little rear view mirrors that are US spec, so They are much smaller than they look. on UK cars so you can't actually see behind you but in this car you'll be going so fast you don't need to see behind you anyway and that brings me to this huge rear wing, now it looks good from the distance. but when you get close to it it is a bit sticky when you drive the car you can see it flapping but you can upgrade it to a carbon rear wing if you go for the carbon package which gives you a carbon wing.

Carbon wheels a rear seat delete and michelin cup tires and finally as you've already heard these huge quad exhausts I'll just check if you can get your fist in them yes I just made up that test absolutely yes outrageous the gt500 It's not just about posing and making noise, of course, Ford didn't design this car for posing. Ford designed this car to perform and with every step you take, put your foot straight and the rear end just ducks, the front end lifts up and darts toward the horizon. genuinely efficient at converting power into performance, where other rear-wheel drive cars with so much power are quite terrifying.

Superfast Ferrari 812, for example, this one is not. I wouldn't say he's a kitten, but you're never afraid of him, not even on curves. Surprisingly well glued, it takes a surprising amount of cornering force before it starts to understeer and, although it does oversteer on command, you can get power very early before it starts doing anything too crazy. Wow, there's so much traction the brakes are surprisingly effective too, it doesn't come with carbon ceramic but the amount of stopping power you get from these is outstanding, it's almost as impressive as the acceleration and you can do it again and again, the discs are actually larger than the wheels you used.

However, getting into some old Mustangs, one of the main disadvantages for me is the fact that when you get into a corner when it's too hot, that's when you realize that there isn't much feedback from the front axle and you never know when the part The front end is going to come loose, but when it does, all it really does is wash the cable gently, but then you lift it up and it corrects its line very smoothly, very predictably, and there's so much traction that you basically just throw it into a corner . Put your faith. on it and let the car do the rest it's not a precision machine it's not a driver's car it's not a sharp scalpel like a mclaren 765 lt, for example, but it's surprisingly effective at what it does and I think in the track could give supercars a massive run for their money, it's so good gearbox-wise, I'm going to complain about that one more time, sorry, it's effective, it's very good, but it could have been designed a bit more of aggression, a little more abruptness in the changes.

They are fast but they are not as involving as I really want but I tell you what that talking power is, super addictive, super fun, I am really impressed with this car, in fact more than anything else I am impressed that this car really exist. We now live in a world where the top mustang, the top of Ford's lineup, is the electric Mach E, but here we are with a 706 horsepower Shelby GT500 that ranks as the ultimate predator, and predator is the perfect word. for this given the code. engine name the apex predator of the mustang world of the muscle car world I really like it this is not just the mustang this is the mustang you