2016 Ford Mustang Shelby GT350: An 8200-rpm Muscle Car to Shame Sports Cars

The GT350 is a new type of Mustang. Factory ready via its V-8 makes 526 horsepower and some of the best 8,200 rpm sounds you'll ever hear. In this episode of Power presented by Tire Rack, Jason Cammisa explains what makes this different plane-plane crankshaft of a V-8 standard using a set of drums.
Then measures the output of the engine on a dynamometer DynoJet. Even if you do not know what a test it is, you'll love the sound of this engine does - and shots racer Randy Pobst hammering this particular car around Chuckwalla Valley Raceway. Could it be that this American muscle car is actually a better car than most sports cars driver? We think so - find out why.

2016 Ford Mustang Shelby GT350

We've been here before. We looked down the barrel of a double striped Mustang with more than 500 horsepower and the name of a chicken farmer from Texas through his ass. The last, the 2013 Shelby GT500 had 662 horsepower, in fact, and was said to be over 200 mph. He did not, not for us, anyway. Still, it was what should be a Shelby Mustang, which has been for decades: a quarter-mile hot with a side of smoky burnout. It was a muscle car with more. Mustang enthusiasts arrived sweaty, but as usual, the world of cars simply shrugged and went ahead with developments.


Ford says it's different this time. It is said that the new Shelby GT350 a positive gestational name with history, is a light-year jump in sophistication and manipulation. He says the flat-plane crank V-8 offers 8000 revelations per minute, the magnetic suspension and custom perforated brake system and tires Michelin superstick prove that the company is serious about achieving a world class management.


We've been here before. We looked down the barrel of a double striped Mustang with more than 500 horsepower and the name of a chicken farmer from Texas through his ass. The last, the 2013 Shelby GT500 had 662 horsepower, in fact, and was said to be over 200 mph. He did not, not for us, anyway. Still, it was what should be a Shelby Mustang, which has been for decades: a quarter-mile hot with a side of smoky burnout. It was a muscle car with more. Mustang enthusiasts arrived sweaty, but as usual, the world of cars simply shrugged and went ahead with developments.

Ford says it's different this time. It is said that the new Shelby GT350 a positive gestational name with history, is a light-year jump in sophistication and manipulation. He says the flat-plane crank V-8 offers 8000 revelations per minute, the magnetic suspension and custom perforated brake system and tires Michelin superstick prove that the company is serious about achieving a world class management.

Well, Ford says a lot of things.

Our natural skepticism, kill the brightness of a katana years Shelbys with horse skull-rattling and dynamics of plodding, marched proudly in the cockpit of the new GT350-con who died instantly in the red button start of the car. Vaa-ROOOOOMpapapapapapa !!!!

Oh. Maybe they are serious this time.

With the six-speed slots in gear and clutch surprisingly light up, the GT350 jumped on the asphalt of Monterey Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. First corner and first impressions: tight, with feet tied, stable, perhaps a little push, but, hey, a little cold and heavy car. Wind wait outside, where is the red line? Nowhere. It does not exist! The sucker just keep striving, keeps revolutions, still swelling with a glorious brazen, unmuffled, rhapsodic roar.

The anticipated upswing was forgotten as he approached another corner.

The brake-oof such brakes! -chomp Down, but not nose dive. The car does not cross up or twisting, it is flat and stable and ready to turn right now! Less understeer this time, a perfect arc drawn from the white line to white line vertex. And it is the accelerator again, the sound flooding back addictive erotic ,, dazzling lyrical breath fire.

With the GT350 $ 49,995 and even more track-shabby $ 63,495 GT350R, Ford wants to leave the field pony-car the Mustang has been inhabited since 1964. It is assumed that the use of race ready original Shelby GT350 Carroll Shelby as your guide Polaris engineers set to build a track machine without excuses, more talented than the GT500 replacing blunderbuss. That car was all about muscle strength and 200 mph. This is a little lighter, more agile, and maybe I can finally get the attention of non-muscle-car rates. You say you have a BMW, but want something different, possibly to the US action, but is not your thing Corvette and Camaro Z / 28 is too brutal? Ford wants to talk to you.