Ford Mustang News
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Now, you wouldn't think pitting three of America's most powerful cars against each other on a public road would be a good idea—and you'd be right. MUST WATCH: Drifting On Ice With The Porsche 918: Video For three-pedal fans keeping score at home, each of these drivers is rowing his own gears, and each of these beasts—a 2015 Chevrolet Corvette Z06, a 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat, a 2014 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500—is more than capable of spinning the tires at highway speeds. So there's a laundry list of possible things that could have gone wrong during the filming of this...
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2015 Hennessey Ford Mustang Hits 195.2 MPH: Video
How fast is fast enough for your Mustang? Trick question! There is no such thing as fast enough. But this 2015 Hennessey Ford Mustang gets close with its 195.2 mph top speed run. DON'T MISS: Hennessey Venom GT Blasts Down Runway at 270.49 MPH Sporting the company’s HPE700 supercharger kit...
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Did The 2016 Ford Mustang Shelby GT350R Lap The 'Ring In Just 7:32.19?
The all-new 2016 Ford Mustang Shelby GT350R only made its debut a fortnight ago in Detroit but already there are whispers the car lapped the Nürburgring in a time of 7:32.19. The Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] is yet to announce an official time but numerous prototypes for the Shelby GT350R were...
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First 2016 Ford Mustang Shelby GT350R Fetches $1 Million In Record Barrett-Jackson Auction
Barrett-Jackson’s collector car auction held in Scottsdale, Arizona over the weekend saw a number of exciting cars go under the hammer and some major records fall. One of the more exciting cars to be sold was the 2016 Ford Mustang Shelby GT350R with VIN #001, whose final bid came in at a cool...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran -
2015 Ford Shelby GT Debuts With 625 Horsepower: Video
The Ford Motor Company’s [NYSE:F] new Shelby GT350 and Shelby GT350R Mustangs have just burst onto the scene, with new flat-plane crank V-8s to boot. However, if you’re looking for a Shelby Mustang built by the company that Carroll Shelby helped create, then the all-new 2015 Ford Shelby...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran -
Ordering Guide For Ford Mustang Shelby GT350 & GT350R Leaked?
Everyone is still abuzz from the Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] performance flurry unveiled at the 2015 Detroit Auto Show, but the sad fact is we're still a ways away from a time when folks will be able to start placing these recently revealed machines in their garages. Still, that doesn't stop the...
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Yesterday at the 2015 Detroit Auto Show was the coming out party for the new Ford Performance division, which brings all of the Blue Oval’s performance brands, such as Ford Racing, SVT and RS, under the one roof. The Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] has confirmed that between now and 2020 the portfolio of cars from Ford Performance will grow to more than 12 members. Many of these we already know, like the ST-badged Fiesta and Focus hot hatches as well as the recently revealed Mustang Shelby GT350, and in Detroit this week we saw the covers come off three additional members: 1) Ford GT 2)...
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2016 Ford Mustang Shelby GT350R Is A Track-Honed Hooligan
We do believe that the Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] has hired a team of cheerleaders for the design and marketing offices. Their job? To stand around and chant "Be aggressive, Be be aggressive!" at every meeting. Since Ford has come out and stated that it plans to unleash a slew of performance...
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2015 Ford Mustang EcoBoost Power Down With 87 Octane--Updated With Comment From Ford
UPDATE: A Ford spokesman has explained that while horsepower in the Mustang EcoBoost will be down when using 87 octane fuel, as will be the case with virtually any engine when using a fuel with a lower octane rating than the recommended level (in this case 93), the torque figure is unchanged at 320...
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2015 Ford Mustang Tuned By Hennessey Produces 663 HP At The Wheels: Video
Hennessey Performance recently announced some power upgrades for the 2015 Ford Mustang, with the most potent being the HPE700 package for the V-8-powered Mustang GT. The package’s official power rating is 717 horsepower, but as this video of a HPE700-equipped Mustang GT on the dyno shows the...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran -
Ford Climate Tests The 2015 Mustang: Video
Sure, a great number of Ford Mustangs will wind up as rental vehicles in locations like Hawaii, California, Arizona, and Florida. The convertible V-6 versions will make many visitors happy as they escape the cold weather from whence they came. It's not just a rental special though, and the Ford...
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First 2016 Ford Mustang Shelby GT350 Heading To Auction
Everyone we know is pretty darn eager to get their mitts on the 2016 Ford Mustang Shelby GT350. From its aggressive body lines to its flat-plane crank 5.2-liter V-8 engine, the GT350 is going to be one of the (thankfully, many) ultra sporty machines available at your local dealership. Want to be...
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Shelby American is yet to present its take on the all-new, sixth-generation Mustang but you can bet the Ford tuner extraordinaire has something special up its sleeve. In the meantime, Shelby is sending out the previous fifth-gen car with a special Super Snake Signature Edition package based on its GT500. MUST SEE: 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Crashes In Colorado This is a post-title package, meaning buyers supply their own Shelby GT500s. Shelby is allowing the Super Snake Signature Edition package to be applied on 2007-2014 model year GT500s, with either the coupe or convertible...
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Eleanor Ford Mustang Fails To Sell At Auction
The only drivable ‘Eleanor’ Ford Mustang to have survived the filming ordeal of 2000’s hit movie Gone In 60 Seconds went up for auction over the weekend at Mecum’s first-ever collector car auction in Austin, Texas, but unfortunately for its owner the car failed to sell. That...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran -
2015 Ford Mustang Convertible Starts Shipping To Dealers
While the sixth-generation Mustang has been in showrooms for the past couple of months, the Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] only started shipping the convertible version this week. The convertible is available in base, EcoBoost and GT Premium trim but isn’t being offered in regular GT or...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran -
Original Eleanor Mustang From ‘Gone In 60 Seconds’ Coming Up For Auction
Of the 11 ‘Eleanor’ Ford Mustangs created for 2000’s hit movie Gone In 60 Seconds, which starred Nicolas Cage and Angelina Jolie, only three of the cars were actually drivable and two of these were destroyed in the climactic bridge jump and junkyard crusher scenes. Now the...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran -
2015 Ford Mustang Recalled Again, This Time For Potential Fuel Leak
The 2015 Ford Mustang looks to be having a troubled start to life, with the car already receiving its second recall just months after landing in showrooms. A small number—53 to be exact—were recalled back in October because of an issue with seat belt buckles, and now 728 examples are...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran -
First 2015 Ford Mustang GT To Break Into The 9s: Video
A 2015 Ford Mustang GT clocks a 9.91-second quarter-mile pass at 135 mph.
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If you thought the all-new 2016 Ford Mustang Shelby GT350 unveiled last week at the Los Angeles Auto Show was the end of the road for factory tuning of the new Mustang platform, then you’d be wrong. Yes, the GT350 that we’ve all been drooling over for the past few days is actually the vanilla model, as an even more potent GT350R is said to be coming to January’s Detroit Auto Show. The information was first reported by Road & Track, which claims the GT350R will pack even better brakes, aero tweaks, stickier rubber, and more. This may help to explain why prototypes for the...
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2016 Ford Mustang Shelby GT350 Video
Since the new Mustang hit the streets this summer, the Z/28-haters have been wondering—when’s the real muscle car going to show up? Ford has an answer for that at the 2014 Los Angeles auto show—it’s the track-ready version of the legendary pony car. This is the outrageous...
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Galpin and Henrik Fisker reveal 725-hp Rocket based on the Mustang
Henrik Fisker is probably best known for his attempt at starting an automaker, but before the days of Fisker Automotive the Danish businessman was working as a car designer and running coachbuilder Fisker Coachbuild. Well, it appears Fisker isn’t finished with the auto world just yet as...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran -
2016 Ford Mustang Shelby GT350 New Photos And Video
Ford’s new Mustang Shelby GT350 has finally landed, and it’s every bit as good as we'd hoped. While previous GT350s were built by Shelby American, this new one is a creation of Ford Motor Company’s [NYSE:F] own SVT division but still adheres to Carroll Shelby’s original...
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It's Time To Watch Ken Block Tear Up L.A. In Gymkhana 7: Video
It’s time to sit back and enjoy Ken Block’s Gymkhana 7, which this time sees the professional rally driver/hoonigan weave his way around the empty streets of Los Angeles—empty, thanks to some help from the LAPD. His Gymkhana formula may be getting a bit stale but Block certainly...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran -
2016 Ford Mustang Shelby GT350 Packs New V-8, Serious Track Upgrades: Video & Live Photos
If you thought you might have to wait some time before the storied Shelby name gets spliced back into the Mustang narrative, think again. An all-new Mustang Shelby GT350, based on the all-new sixth-generation Mustang, is already here—ahead of its official public debut later this week at the...
Bengt Halvorson