{"id":49470,"date":"2012-04-27T10:24:47","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T14:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedetroitbureau.com\/?p=49470"},"modified":"2012-04-27T10:24:47","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T14:24:47","slug":"mustang-gets-worlds-most-powerful-production-v-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/2012\/04\/mustang-gets-worlds-most-powerful-production-v-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Mustang Gets World\u2019s Most Powerful Production V-8"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The 2013 Ford Shelby GT500 will be the first 200 mph American muscle car.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The supercharged 5.8-liter engine in Ford\u2019s newly-updated Shelby GT500 has officially been certified by the Society of Automotive Engineers as the world\u2019s most powerful series production V-8.<\/p>\n

The big powerplant, used in Ford\u2019s top-end Mustang, will make 662 horsepower and 631 pound-feet of torque.\u00a0 That works out to just over 114 horsepower per liter \u2013 and it\u2019s enough to propel the pony car to a top speed of 200 miles per hour, putting it into the rarified atmosphere normally reserved for such European exotics as the Ferrari 458 Italia or Lamborghini Aventador.<\/p>\n

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But what\u2019s equally impressive, the maker boasts, is the fact that the 2013 Ford Shelby GT500 will get 24 mile per gallon on the highway, a 1 mpg boost over the 2012 model, which made \u201cjust\u201d 550 horsepower.\u00a0 The city mileage is up 1 mpg, as well, at 15, with a combined rating of 18 mpg.\u00a0 That\u2019s enough for Ford to avoid the unwanted gas guzzler premium that often scares potential buyers away.<\/p>\n

Ford insists that the new Shelby GT500 will be a far cry from the classic American muscle car \u2013 which was great at off-the-line acceleration but not much else.<\/p>\n

“Our goal is to create outstanding all-around performance cars, not just stoplight-to-stoplight sprinters,” said Jamal Hameedi, SVT chief engineer. “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.”<\/p>\n

Among the driver-adjustable features on the 2013 Ford Shelby GT500 are Bilstein variable damping shock absorbers, track-tunes AdvanceTrac stability control and electric power-assisted steering.\u00a0 The new Mustang also features launch control, a system designed to maximize launch acceleration by minimizing initial wheel spin.<\/p>\n

But the star of this show is the big V-8 which relies on a new TVS 2.3-liter supercharger, twin overhead camshafts and a total of 32 valves to enhance engine breathing so that both torque and power from the big engine starts coming on fast and hold steady right up to redline.<\/p>\n

Ford is hoping that the high-power but relatively low-volume Shelby GT500 will place a halo around the overall Mustang nameplate.\u00a0 It has been losing ground for several years to the reborn Chevrolet Camaro.\u00a0 And in a press release, Ford takes a jab at its rival noting that the new 5.8-liter V-8 turns out a whopping 82 hp more than the engine in the top-line Camaro ZL1, also new for 2013. Turning the knife a little deeper, Ford adds that the Shelby GT500 also gets 5 mpg more on the highway.<\/p>\n

But before Ford crows too loud one might point out that the legendary Carroll Shelby actually has found a way to punch even more power out of a Mustang.\u00a0 His own Las Vegas-based tuner shop, Shelby American, recently introduced the Shelby 1000.\u00a0 It completely rebuilds the stock Mustang V-8 and comes up with 950 hp in street configuration, 1100 in the track model.\u00a0 But Shelby American\u2019s offering doesn\u2019t count as a series production model.<\/p>\n

In fact, there are a number of cars on the road that beat the GT500\u2019s specific output, 114 horsepower per liter.\u00a0 The 4.4-liter package in the new BMW M5 \u201conly\u201d makes 560 hp, but that works out to 127 hp per liter.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the new SRT Viper, introduced earlier in the month at the NY Auto Show, delivers markedly more than the Shelby GT500 from a horsepower-to-weight ratio, the Viper third in that column, behind the likes of the Bugatti Veyron and Ferrari F12.<\/p>\n

But comparisons aside, it\u2019s clear the Ford Shelby GT500 will carry a high fear factor among street racers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The supercharged 5.8-liter engine in Ford\u2019s newly-updated Shelby GT500 has officially been certified by the Society of Automotive Engineers as the world\u2019s most powerful series production V-8. But equally impressive, reports TheDetroitBureau.com, the new Mustang also gets better mileage than the old model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"make":[],"post-state":[],"category_old":[151],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49470"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=49470"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=49470"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=49470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}