Mustang GT500 car review - Top Gear - BBC

This is the new Mustang, we drove it a while ago and found it a little late, but the thing about the Mustang is that you can always improve the breed, as I will now explain with a rather loud history lesson, many wonderful things about the Mustang . which really introduced drivers to the idea. George Buzz came out in the early 1960s and wanted a standard bit with a 6-cylinder engine. This is the bullet that Steve McQueen launched into the history of cinema through the streets of San Francisco. the gt390 is in car terms very few cars live up to its hype and i'm using it to make a

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stand out everything that made it good the engine delights the stripes were extra basically if you wanted one well still, you gotta forget it, cheap and cheerful and go for the luxury version and that's what the new one has been lacking so far, this is the

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and from every angle you can see its muscle car biceps straining to emerge from the bodywork, it's also adorned with menacing Cobra badges, a tribute to tuning legend Carroll, now Shelby only put his name on the fastest, most powerful Mustangs, meaning this has to be more than just a simple fashion statement and as you see this car has the supercharged v8 from the Ford GT There is no point nine seconds in America the

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has been hit by a storm the lines are out the door and they ran around the block now if you wait your turn you could Putting one of these on your trip to Britain for £35,000 sounds like a tempting ask.

We should start with the 500 horsepower rating. It's a little, you know, meaty. This is a wavy road. It is a kind of bullshit detector for the engines and gives the actual horsepower reading. I really want to see this. What went really well is that this gt500 actually makes 447. It's almost there, that seems pretty fair thinking about what I have of the machine it has when it's new, 325 horsepower and the man inside assures me which anyway I'm going to get back to the job at hand and talk about disappointments killing geometry for a remote reservoir shocks fully independent rear suspension tuning some of the things that this Mustang now what this car uses is a live axle that custom The rear suspension goes, it's basically a big beam with a wheel on each end, it's not exactly the best because the technology is outdated, you can have fun the old fashioned way, but when everything goes wrong, the Mustang becomes precise enough and dynamic, now ford says they didn't give the gt500 a modern suspension because it would have added $5,000 to the price of each car ridiculous decision you can't just give a car 200 extra brake horsepower and then leave it with a prehistoric suspension what you So it's a car that looks great and goes fast in a straight line and that's it, but don't despair if you really want to spend 30 grand on a Mustang that looks good and goes fast in a straight line, it makes a lot of noise with this one. , well, this one not, obviously, so much power in a car without changing the suspension, you just can.

Not all brakes, the rest can't handle it anyway. Now we must find out how fast the Shelby goes on our track and to do so we will put it in the hands of our docile race driver, some say he is. Not machine washable. All these potted plants are called Steve. All we know is that his name is Stig. Okay, off it goes and you can see the swaying rear wheels fighting for grip. That's low-tech suspension. Let's see how it affects things. the corners dipping into the first one now looking pretty composed so far not too bad just loosening up a little on the way out there guiding his hands she helped him unbutton his pretty lilac gloves more gushing fiction from the Stig collection there Chicago now look at it John a cocker rear wheel and gets all its shape on the exit, which is a messy hammerhead that now slams the brakes forward when it wobbles in the corners, something that kicks it a little adrift, smoking inside, it's not elegant, closing his arms his neck just gently pressed his lips against hers to move forward with the opportunity to see this card it's better now that it's in a straight line that's fast through the tires two corners to the left oh, they're flopping around like a frisky there only Prawn to negotiate now He places it exactly the same as a manaro, yes, which is good, but as you can see it wobbles in that setting, I mean, it stings all over the place and that really bothers me. leads to this one well, which is the Roush Mustang, now it's just I have 415 brake horsepower okay, which obviously isn't as much as the Shelby, but they changed the suspension, they changed the brakes and I drove this last year in United States and it was just a brick, I mean, a really brilliant car, but yes I'm right, this is 10,000 pounds more expensive than the Shelby, well, yes, but it's 10 thousand more expensive, in fact, before it was bad, after After the Stig came out in the Shelby, we gave it to him and this is what it looked like.

Out there, he's coming to where he is now, that's Chicago. You see, look, there's no modeling like there was on the Shelby, what makes the supercharger whine and then the exhaust also has a limited slip differential which the Shelby doesn't have? So not only does it spin all the power inside, where it's such a nice car, do you know what time it was? God, okay, 415 horsepower, what was this? 450 or something like that yeah it was 128 minutes 28 so it's two seconds faster than the Shelby but it's m3 of money yeah but honestly I would have one of those if I was the kind of person who looks at my sister and thinks mmm