FORD Mustang Shelby GT350 2015
We've been here before. We've been staring down the barrel of a twin-striped Mustang with more than 500 horsepower and name Texas chicken farmer in his fanny. Lastly, the 2013 Shelby GT500, has 662 horsepower, in fact, and is said to go more than 200 mph. No, not for us, anyway. Even so, it was what Shelby Mustang should be, what it has been for decades: the hot side of the quarter-mile with a smoky burnout. It's a muscle car with more. Mustang lovers get sweaty, but as usual, the rest of the automotive world just shrugged and moved with evolution.
Ford said it was different this time. It said the new Shelby GT350, positive name of pregnancy with history, is a light-year leap in sophistication and handling. He said flat-plane-crank V-8 delivers the 8000 revelations per minute, that the magnetic suspension and custom, cross-drilled brake systems and tires Michelin superstick prove that the company is serious about achieving a world-class handling.
Well, Ford says many things.
our natural skepticism, to twinkle honed by years of Shelby katana with the skull-rattling rides and slow dynamics, marched proudly into the cockpit of the new GT350-where it died instantly on the red start button car.
Oh. Maybe they mean it this time.
With the six-speed is placed into gear and the clutch is very light lifting, GT350 who jumped onto the tarmac from Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca Monterey. The first corner and the first impression: a tight, tied-down, stable, maybe a little push, but hey, the car was cold and rather heavy. Wind out-wait, where redline? Nowhere. It does not exist! suckers just kept trying, kept revving, keep swelling with noble rogue, unmuffled, thundering awe.
upshift anticipated oblivion as other corner approached.
Rem-oof, brake like! -chomp Down, but not nose dive. cars do not cross over or stretched, it is flat and stable and ready for a change now! Less understeer today, perfect arc described from the white line to white line to the top. And the gas again, voices flooding back-addictive, fascinating, erotic breathing fire lyric.
Yes. Yes indeed. Ford seriously.
With $ 49,995 GT350 and even more track-worn $ 63,495 GT350R, Ford wants to quit the scope of the horse-car Mustang has been inhabited since 1964. It should use the original Shelby Carroll Shelby GT350 race-ready as the guiding Polaris, the engineers set out to build no -The reason track machines, more multitalented than GT500 blunderbuss it replaces. The car is all about muscle power and 200 mph. This one is slightly lighter, more flexible, and may eventually get the attention of a type of non-muscle-car. You say you own a BMW but want something different, may be made in America, but not your thing Corvette and Camaro Z / 28 is too rough? Ford wants to talk to you.
Not that the new Shelby is not fast, but it was not a quarter mile dedicated eaters, either. Basic GT350 reaches 60 mph in 4.3 seconds after launch rather hard and do the quarter mile in 12.5 seconds at 117 mph. numbers may not amazing today, but the test car did weight 3,796 pounds. With his 18-pound carbon fiber wheels and sticky Pilot Sport Cup 2 tires, R (in 3710 pounds) to make it to 60 in 3.9 seconds and through the quarter mile in 12.2 seconds at 119 mph. Guess what? Porsche 911 GT3 drivers are not hopping around times drag-strip. Statistics are important to them is more of a skidpad grip and braking distance. There, 350 and 350R interesting and surprising 1:10 0.98 g g, while stopping from 70 mph in 152 feet and 146 feet. Ford priorities became clear when you examine the track data-sheet.
In the grander scheme of things, this is part of the internationalization of the US Ford's product line in general, from Fiesta to Transit. the economic demands of auto-industry today that you play on the world stage, which in a sporty car means a world-class dynamics. Mustang can no longer be an island of romantic longing for a drag-strip Christmas tree and a neon-lit drive-ins.
Okay, yes, GT350 is the North American-only for now, but the mien and manners more BMW M4 than typical Mustang monster, even if the tire-shredding line-lock feature carries over into Shelby. Really, Cadillac ATS-V coupe, so enriched and capable, is a better comparison for the GT350 from what appears to be a natural domestic competitors, who came out Chevrolet Camaro Z / 28.
Well, Chad is a good comparison except for the odd Shelby unique V-8. We have been complaining about the turbo engine and lack of character. You want a machine with a character? The GT350's "Voodoo" V-8 is Brad Pitt, Terminator, and James Bond come at you with matching grins wryly.
Everyone wants to know first what the 5.2-liter, 526-hp engine it sounds like. Even when making full 92-decibel war cry, it's not a loping boom-boom as we are accustomed from muscle cars, but tring faster, more syncopation that is more like what you hear from Ferrari. However, that does not sound like a Ferrari, especially because it does not breathe like Ferrari.
In case you have lost a lot of our scrap earlier on the subject, here is an update that is very thick: This is the version that is a little bored and stroked from the Mustang GT 5.0-liter V-8, but with the crankshaft flat plane, which means connecting journal-rod 180 -derajat out, like in a Ferrari 458 or Ferrari California and not at intervals of 90 degrees as in almost every V-8 in production.
Mustang not wail like Ferrari, however, because the Ford engine is very different. For one thing, he has a single intake and dual exhaust, as opposed to the double intake and exhaust single large, such as the Ferrari. Also, instead of setup Ferrari, effectively, two four-cylinder engine joined the crankshaft, where the two center piston of each bank is 180 degrees out of the outer two, Ford has a different setting. It puts each piston 180 out of the next one in line. This is mainly because Ford wanted a large single throttle body for better packaging and deployment of personnel as appropriate for a Mustang.
Ford engineers Performance these functional heads, Kerry Baldori, standing trajectory in Laguna and stopped to wait for any GT350 scream past, said the idea crank flat-plane occurred after it was decided to replace the GT500 supercharged with a naturally aspirated V-8 at more than 500 horsepower , Absent blower, make some sort of sauce take some tricks, especially if you stick with port fuel injection. Ford engineers want to see why Ferrari is so enamored with flat crank. They find. A lighter, slimmer crankshaft reduce windage losses and mean faster turnaround. That, plus some heavy work on reducing internal friction, resulting Mustang V-8 is the most esoteric (but also the most convincing) evidence of Ford's intention to do this one right.
Undoubtedly, the resolve to go flat has an effect on the decision in other departments ( "Well, if we're going to do that, then we'd better give good brakes," etc.). The engineers combed the internet. Ford liked monoblock Brembo brake calipers, but prefers exotic, pinned radial rotor iron-aluminum composite of a small German supplier called SHW. R gets 19-inch carbon fiber wheels of the Australian Carbon Revolution, the small craft shops that make the products in the warehouse pole before Ford Googled it. Small suppliers get up to speed to meet stringent durability and original-equipment quality benchmarks is a significant challenge for the program, said Baldori. GT350R is the first use of carbon fiber wheels on car production volumes.
In the suspension and tires, though, Ford went with a few well-known number. magnetorheological shocks (part of a $ 6,500 Track package on the base 350 and included in R) makes a damper very reactive and flexible, giving engineers the latitude suspension wider in the spring, dampers and anti-roll bar tuning. And the best Michelin rubber has been spec'd, including Michelin Pilot Super Sports to 350 and Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2s for this GT350R. (For more on the GT350 and GT350R's impressive chassis, check our diving in.)
Weight-just incredible Mustang GT over 3800 pounds-sheared from various locations, including on the machine, the knuckles of the front aluminum is lighter, and the wholesale transmission swap. The GT350's Tremec 3160 six-speed manual, the only transmission offered, knock a few pounds of weight Getrag MT82 six-speed Mustang GT while delivering quicker shifts. (As we already know, the GT350R we tilted the scales at 3710 pounds, while the GT350 with a pack Track weighted 3796 pounds.)
During the day we were driving on the Monterey Peninsula, we are not able to experience the base GT350. All of them have the Track package or Rs. Unlike Shelby yore, the new GT350 on optional magnetic dampers swallow a much better way, leaving contact lenses and dentures in place. Transmission has short throws and easy precision, and relatively light clutch pedal means GT350 can be a panacea everyday if you want.
For those of you who are already familiar with sudden, spurred a boom in modern turbo engine should return your clock a little. Large V-8 was not pale, but it would pull the stump at 1500 rpm. Apogees torque curve at 4750 rpm, a number of high-pressure days. However, Voodoo is more about the journey than the destination. Spin-up is even and very long crescendo of violence aural, with real take-off occurs at 3500 rpm when the engine comes to wind.
Ford said it was different this time. It said the new Shelby GT350, positive name of pregnancy with history, is a light-year leap in sophistication and handling. He said flat-plane-crank V-8 delivers the 8000 revelations per minute, that the magnetic suspension and custom, cross-drilled brake systems and tires Michelin superstick prove that the company is serious about achieving a world-class handling.
Well, Ford says many things.
our natural skepticism, to twinkle honed by years of Shelby katana with the skull-rattling rides and slow dynamics, marched proudly into the cockpit of the new GT350-where it died instantly on the red start button car.
Oh. Maybe they mean it this time.
With the six-speed is placed into gear and the clutch is very light lifting, GT350 who jumped onto the tarmac from Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca Monterey. The first corner and the first impression: a tight, tied-down, stable, maybe a little push, but hey, the car was cold and rather heavy. Wind out-wait, where redline? Nowhere. It does not exist! suckers just kept trying, kept revving, keep swelling with noble rogue, unmuffled, thundering awe.
upshift anticipated oblivion as other corner approached.
Rem-oof, brake like! -chomp Down, but not nose dive. cars do not cross over or stretched, it is flat and stable and ready for a change now! Less understeer today, perfect arc described from the white line to white line to the top. And the gas again, voices flooding back-addictive, fascinating, erotic breathing fire lyric.
Yes. Yes indeed. Ford seriously.
With $ 49,995 GT350 and even more track-worn $ 63,495 GT350R, Ford wants to quit the scope of the horse-car Mustang has been inhabited since 1964. It should use the original Shelby Carroll Shelby GT350 race-ready as the guiding Polaris, the engineers set out to build no -The reason track machines, more multitalented than GT500 blunderbuss it replaces. The car is all about muscle power and 200 mph. This one is slightly lighter, more flexible, and may eventually get the attention of a type of non-muscle-car. You say you own a BMW but want something different, may be made in America, but not your thing Corvette and Camaro Z / 28 is too rough? Ford wants to talk to you.
Not that the new Shelby is not fast, but it was not a quarter mile dedicated eaters, either. Basic GT350 reaches 60 mph in 4.3 seconds after launch rather hard and do the quarter mile in 12.5 seconds at 117 mph. numbers may not amazing today, but the test car did weight 3,796 pounds. With his 18-pound carbon fiber wheels and sticky Pilot Sport Cup 2 tires, R (in 3710 pounds) to make it to 60 in 3.9 seconds and through the quarter mile in 12.2 seconds at 119 mph. Guess what? Porsche 911 GT3 drivers are not hopping around times drag-strip. Statistics are important to them is more of a skidpad grip and braking distance. There, 350 and 350R interesting and surprising 1:10 0.98 g g, while stopping from 70 mph in 152 feet and 146 feet. Ford priorities became clear when you examine the track data-sheet.
In the grander scheme of things, this is part of the internationalization of the US Ford's product line in general, from Fiesta to Transit. the economic demands of auto-industry today that you play on the world stage, which in a sporty car means a world-class dynamics. Mustang can no longer be an island of romantic longing for a drag-strip Christmas tree and a neon-lit drive-ins.
Okay, yes, GT350 is the North American-only for now, but the mien and manners more BMW M4 than typical Mustang monster, even if the tire-shredding line-lock feature carries over into Shelby. Really, Cadillac ATS-V coupe, so enriched and capable, is a better comparison for the GT350 from what appears to be a natural domestic competitors, who came out Chevrolet Camaro Z / 28.
Well, Chad is a good comparison except for the odd Shelby unique V-8. We have been complaining about the turbo engine and lack of character. You want a machine with a character? The GT350's "Voodoo" V-8 is Brad Pitt, Terminator, and James Bond come at you with matching grins wryly.
Everyone wants to know first what the 5.2-liter, 526-hp engine it sounds like. Even when making full 92-decibel war cry, it's not a loping boom-boom as we are accustomed from muscle cars, but tring faster, more syncopation that is more like what you hear from Ferrari. However, that does not sound like a Ferrari, especially because it does not breathe like Ferrari.
In case you have lost a lot of our scrap earlier on the subject, here is an update that is very thick: This is the version that is a little bored and stroked from the Mustang GT 5.0-liter V-8, but with the crankshaft flat plane, which means connecting journal-rod 180 -derajat out, like in a Ferrari 458 or Ferrari California and not at intervals of 90 degrees as in almost every V-8 in production.
Mustang not wail like Ferrari, however, because the Ford engine is very different. For one thing, he has a single intake and dual exhaust, as opposed to the double intake and exhaust single large, such as the Ferrari. Also, instead of setup Ferrari, effectively, two four-cylinder engine joined the crankshaft, where the two center piston of each bank is 180 degrees out of the outer two, Ford has a different setting. It puts each piston 180 out of the next one in line. This is mainly because Ford wanted a large single throttle body for better packaging and deployment of personnel as appropriate for a Mustang.
Ford engineers Performance these functional heads, Kerry Baldori, standing trajectory in Laguna and stopped to wait for any GT350 scream past, said the idea crank flat-plane occurred after it was decided to replace the GT500 supercharged with a naturally aspirated V-8 at more than 500 horsepower , Absent blower, make some sort of sauce take some tricks, especially if you stick with port fuel injection. Ford engineers want to see why Ferrari is so enamored with flat crank. They find. A lighter, slimmer crankshaft reduce windage losses and mean faster turnaround. That, plus some heavy work on reducing internal friction, resulting Mustang V-8 is the most esoteric (but also the most convincing) evidence of Ford's intention to do this one right.
Undoubtedly, the resolve to go flat has an effect on the decision in other departments ( "Well, if we're going to do that, then we'd better give good brakes," etc.). The engineers combed the internet. Ford liked monoblock Brembo brake calipers, but prefers exotic, pinned radial rotor iron-aluminum composite of a small German supplier called SHW. R gets 19-inch carbon fiber wheels of the Australian Carbon Revolution, the small craft shops that make the products in the warehouse pole before Ford Googled it. Small suppliers get up to speed to meet stringent durability and original-equipment quality benchmarks is a significant challenge for the program, said Baldori. GT350R is the first use of carbon fiber wheels on car production volumes.
In the suspension and tires, though, Ford went with a few well-known number. magnetorheological shocks (part of a $ 6,500 Track package on the base 350 and included in R) makes a damper very reactive and flexible, giving engineers the latitude suspension wider in the spring, dampers and anti-roll bar tuning. And the best Michelin rubber has been spec'd, including Michelin Pilot Super Sports to 350 and Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2s for this GT350R. (For more on the GT350 and GT350R's impressive chassis, check our diving in.)
Weight-just incredible Mustang GT over 3800 pounds-sheared from various locations, including on the machine, the knuckles of the front aluminum is lighter, and the wholesale transmission swap. The GT350's Tremec 3160 six-speed manual, the only transmission offered, knock a few pounds of weight Getrag MT82 six-speed Mustang GT while delivering quicker shifts. (As we already know, the GT350R we tilted the scales at 3710 pounds, while the GT350 with a pack Track weighted 3796 pounds.)
During the day we were driving on the Monterey Peninsula, we are not able to experience the base GT350. All of them have the Track package or Rs. Unlike Shelby yore, the new GT350 on optional magnetic dampers swallow a much better way, leaving contact lenses and dentures in place. Transmission has short throws and easy precision, and relatively light clutch pedal means GT350 can be a panacea everyday if you want.
For those of you who are already familiar with sudden, spurred a boom in modern turbo engine should return your clock a little. Large V-8 was not pale, but it would pull the stump at 1500 rpm. Apogees torque curve at 4750 rpm, a number of high-pressure days. However, Voodoo is more about the journey than the destination. Spin-up is even and very long crescendo of violence aural, with real take-off occurs at 3500 rpm when the engine comes to wind.
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