Ford Shelby GT500
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MSRP Starting At: $54,299
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Ford Shelby GT500 |
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Forty years after the first Shelby GT500 was produced, performance legend Carroll Shelby and the Ford Mustang have been powerfully reunited with the introduction of the 2007 Ford Shelby GT500 - the most powerful factory Mustang ever. The result of an alliance between Shelby and the Ford Special Vehicle Team (SVT), the GT500 returns to the streets as a thoroughly modern successor to the famous Shelby GT500 of the late 1960s. |
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Supercharged. Featuring a 500-horsepower supercharged 5.4-liter 32-valve V-8 with a 6-speed manual transmission, race-tuned suspension and four-piston Brembo brakes, the new GT500 packs a heavy dose of pure muscle to back up its aggressive looks. |
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SVT Shows Off. While the 5.4-liter V-8 block, overhead cams and four valves per cylinder contribute significantly to horsepower capability of the GT500, adding a supercharger and intercooler are the icing on the cake. In fact, the configuration is similar to the Ford GT supercar, offering the right combination of classic Ford big-block power and modern technology. Using the Ford GT as a blueprint, SVT has given the GT500 more total horsepower than any factory Mustang in the car's celebrated history: An SAE certified 500! |
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SVT Shows Off All That Go Needs Extra ''Whoa''. A true performance car stops as well as it goes. To that end, the Shelby GT500 features Brembo front brakes with big, four-piston calipers and vented 14-inch discs. In the back, GT500 utilizes the Mustang GT’s 11.8-inch vented single-piston caliper rear-disc setup with unique pad material. |
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6-Speed Gearbox. The gearbox used by the 2007 Shelby GT500 also is a rarity. Few transmissions exist in the marketplace today that can handle the torque loads generated by the supercharged GT500, so engineers have opted to stick with the proven heavy-duty performance of the TR6060 6-speed manual gearbox. |
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Style to Spare. Its unique front-end design, bulging hood with heat extractors, rear spoiler, and unmistakable Le Mans racing stripes tells the world this is not your typical Mustang. To mark the melding of Mustang performance icons, the GT500 also features Shelby, Cobra and SVT badging. |
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Under the Hood. The GT500 is equipped with special “Powered by SVT” finned-cam covers to hint at the beauty of all those horses lurking in the engine below. Mated to the Ford GT 4-valve cylinder heads are unique exhaust manifolds that help to better scavenge spent gases out of the cylinders and into the custom-tuned mufflers and dual-exhaust system. To manage heat produced by those 500 horses, SVT engineers devised a set of GT500 specific features, including an air-extractor hood, a high-capacity aluminum radiator, an intercooler mounted below the blower, a loop-style power-steering cooler and an oil-to-water stacked-dish engine oil cooler. |
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Sit Down and Drive. True to its high-performance orientation, the Shelby GT500 sports front seats that are different from other Mustangs. Bolstering has been added to provide increased lateral support. This helps keep the driver optimally placed. Seating surfaces are trimmed in leather, and the classic figure of a cobra is embossed on the front seatbacks. A cobra is also prominently featured on the tilt steering wheel’s air bag cover. |
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Superb Sound Systems. SIRIUS Satellite Radio may be ordered with either the standard Shaker 500 Audio System or the optional Shaker 1000 system. The Shaker 1000 Audio System amps up to a full 1,000 watts from the standard system’s 500. It includes twov subwoofers as part of its 10-speaker array, and an audio input jack is standard. Both the Shaker 1000 and the 8-speaker Shaker 500 systems include AM/FM Stereo with a six-disc in-dash CD changer with MP3 capability. |
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Sit Down and Drive. True to its high-performance orientation, the Shelby GT500 sports front seats that are different from other Mustangs. Bolstering has been added to provide increased lateral support. This helps keep the driver optimally placed. Seating surfaces are trimmed in leather, and the classic figure of a cobra is embossed on the front seatbacks. A cobra is also prominently featured on the tilt steering wheel’s air bag cover. |
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King of the Road. The ultimate Ford Shelby Mustang of the era was the GT500 and GT500 KR, or “King of the Road.” Powered by a big block 428-cubic-inch “Cobra Jet” V-8, the GT500 was one of the most powerful and memorable muscle cars of that period. Ford Shelby Mustangs were sold from 1965 through 1970, with a total production run of 14,559 units. |
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The Ultimate Mustang. The Ford Special Vehicle Team brought high performance back to Mustang in 1993. After 12 years in the market, with nearly 80,000 high-performance SVT Mustang Cobras on the streets and total SVT vehicle production nearing 145,000, SVT is primed for growth with the GT500 serving as the foundation for other performance Mustang projects. |
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