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ELANA SCHERR: If you're a Mustang fan,
you've been waiting five years to see this car.
And I am super excited to show it to you.
This is the Ford Shelby Mustang GT500, finally.
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Ford last offered the GT500 in 2014.
And the last time that you could get both a GT500 and GT350
at the same time was like 1970, or something.
So this is a big deal.
Ford won't tell us everything that we
want to know about the GT500, but we've learned a bit.
So far, two different trims--
a base model, which is still awesome,
and this, which is the carbon fiber track pack.
It is, duh, carbon fiber equipped.
20-inch carbon fiber wheels, a carbon fiber wing
from the racing GT4 for program, and a little bit more arrow
in the front.
Oh, I know.
I know.
What you really want to hear about
is what's under that hood.
OK.
I can't show it to you, but we do
know that everyone who was guessing
that it was going to be a 5.2 liter
V8, like the same block that's in the GT350, you were right.
It's not going to be a flat plane crank though.
It's a more traditional American V8 cross plane crank.
What it does have is a giant supercharger.
I mean, huge.
The supercharger on this engine is
as big as some of the engines in passenger cars.
2.65 liters.
That is bigger than the Hellcat and bigger than the Camaro zl1,
and only a tiny bit smaller than the Dodge Demon.
So this thing is going to fly.
They won't tell us the horsepower yet.
But if you're guessing 700-plus, you're probably not wrong.
Ford won't give us the exact numbers,
but they did say zero to 60 is going to be in the mid threes.
That's fast.
Everything from the A pillar forward
is distinct on the GT500.
So it's not the same as any of the other Mustangs.
It's a little bit wider.
It's got that bold hood with the extractor.
It's got hood pins.
And underneath the extractor is a rain tray.
So if you're just driving around on the street
and you don't want to get a whole bunch of mud
and leaves all over your nice clean engine,
you leave that on.
And when you get to the track, you take it off.
All the hot air comes out through those vents
and it helps with downforce.
Speaking of moving air through this car,
have you seen the front of it?
It's pretty much all grill.
There's no little tricky headlights that air goes in
or anything like that.
It's just open.
It's got a huge amount of cooling
because it has a huge engine.
And they want to keep that engine cool so that you
can have lots of power.
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One of the big mysteries that we've all been wondering about
is, what transmission options is the GT500 going to have?
Is it going to have the 10-speed automatic, like the Mustang GT?
Is going to be manual only, like the GT350?
And the answer is, surprise!
Neither of those.
A one transmission only, a dual clutch transmission, DCT.
Sort of like the Ford GT.
But this is designed specifically for this car.
So it's a TREMEC 7-speed.
And Ford says it's going to have just like lightning fast shifts
on the track but still be comfortable enough
to drive on the street.
Pretty cool.
The most obviously carbon-y part of the carbon fiber track pack
package are the 20-inch carbon fiber wheels.
20 by 11 in the front, 20 by 11 and a half in the rear.
Even though they are bigger than the carbon
wheels that are on the GT350R, they
weigh the same, because magic.
They're backed by the biggest brakes I have ever
seen on a production coupe.
Family size, pizza big.
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Aside from the rotary shifter in the console, which
is kind of new, the interior is pretty standard
and recognizably Mustang.
The GT500 does have a flat bottom steering wheel.
And if you get the track pack, you get RECARO seats standard.
But only in the front.
Rear seat, delete.
You cannot add it back in.
This is a two seater.
The GT500 is the boss horse in the Mustang herd.
So it is supposed to be above the GT350 in almost
every performance metric.
And while it isn't designed for any particular kind of driving,
it does have options for anything
that you might want to do.
So it has a drag mode.
And it has a track mode.
And the suspension was specifically tuned
to be adjustable for any of those kinds of driving.
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Because it is the top of the line,
we're expecting it's going to have a top of the line price.
But we don't know that yet.
We'll find out when it goes on sale in November.
As soon as we know, you'll know, by checking in
with us at Edmunds.
I can't wait to drive it!
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