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Dealer by my house shows 4 GT350s in stock, 3 with live photos. Checked the window stickers on them, all around $58k. 2 listed for sale at $88k & 1 at $68k. Crazy markups.
Crazy. Dealer not too far from me is selling the GT350 at MSRP. It's a crazy cool car, but I started to have a hard time justifying 75k (CAN) for a Mustang. They're selling them like hot cakes though. That one dealer has moved close to 50 of them.
i believe the GT350R is going for around 90k. They only had a few of those come through, but they were either pre sold, or sold within a day of landing at the dealer.
Going racing? You might want this mightily winged Mustang GT4
Plenty of manufacturers offer their own customer racecars for GT4 racing. Though, none of them have been a Mustang.
Until now. Ford has used SEMA to show off its new ‘global’ Mustang racer, significant as such dedicated motorsport models have previously been solely enjoyed by its native American audience.
It is based upon the Shelby GT350R-C, a car which already has American motorsport success on its CV. The Mustang GT4 can run in a number of competitions, including European GT4, the IMSA Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge and the Pirelli World Challenge.
You want specs? The GT4 runs a 5.2-litre V8 engine linked to a six-speed paddleshift gearbox, while Multimatic Motorsports – who helped the Ford GT racecar win so much this year – have fettled the chassis. Forgeline provide the 18in wheels, while you’ll no doubt have clocked the starkly appointed spoilers and splitters that give the GT4 the aerodynamic profile it needs to properly compete.
Ford Performance unveils an all-new, non-street legal, track-ready Shelby FP350S race car at the 2016 Performance Racing Industry show in Indianapolis.
Shelby FP350S - designed for road racing sprint events in classes including, but not limited to, Trans Am (TA3 and TA4), NASA and SCCA club racing (T1 and T2) - is the latest offering from Ford Performance in a long line of turn-key race cars that include the FR500C, BOSS 302R and 302S, and most recently, the IMSA Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge championship-winning Ford Shelby GT350R-C and GT4, unveiled at SEMA this year.
"Our goal has always been to provide those who want to race with equipment that enables them to compete and win," said Dave Pericak, global director, Ford Performance. "Shelby FP350S is our latest example."
Highlights of the all-new Shelby FP350S include:
5.2-liter four-valve-per-cylinder V8 engine prepared by Ford Performance Parts
Modified unibody chassis with seam welding
Six-point FIA-compliant roll cage
Performance-oriented oil pan and oil cooler
Tremec 3160 manual transmission with integral oil pump, shifter, 3.73 rear final drive ratio
Race-oriented exhaust
Race-oriented suspension components including electric steering calibrations, ultra-high-performance brake system
19 x 10.5-inch front,19 x 11-inch rear wheels
Optional forged 18 x 11-inch race wheel package
Optional Shelby FP350S custom graphics
Ford Performance splitter and carbon fiber-construction adjustable rear wing
MOTEC data acquisition system
Sparco FIA-compliant racing seat, quick-release steering wheel
The all-new Shelby FP350S will be available to order at Ford Dealerships throughout the United States.
Yes, the face of the 2018 Ford Mustang looks awfully sad. Is it sad because it no longer comes with a V6 engine option? Who can say. But there is good news: a new 10-speed automatic gearbox, new colors, and best of all, a magnetic ride suspension.We’ve heard rumblings that Ford would dump the V6 engine option—which only accounted for about 15 percent of sales—for 2018 to only offer the 2.3-liter turbocharged EcoBoost 4-cylinder engine, which had more power anyway, and the 5.0-liter V8. Now we know it’s the truth. Godspeed, V6 Mustang. I greet this news with a resounding “meh.”Now then, the improvements. 3 new colors, including “Orange Fury,” which you see in these photos, according to Automotive News. The face is different—it looks better than it did in yesterday’s leak, I’ll give it that—the hood is lower, and both engines can be had with Ford’s new 10-speed automatic transmission. The manual transmission has also been upgraded with a new twin-disc clutch and dual-mass flywheel.
More importantly the EcoBoost and GT Performance Packs get available MagneRide magnetorheological adaptive dampers, Road & Track reports. This adaptive suspension, once pretty much the purview of expensive supercars, puts the Mustang on par with the Chevrolet Camaro, which has packed it since 2015 (and earlier on the Camaro ZL1.) Previously that suspension was a feature on the more expensive Shelby GT350; now it’s much more democratized.
No word yet on official pricing—we will update this post if that changes—but these improvements could make this the best non-Shelby modern Mustang yet. If you can live with that face.
^ Looks a bit better from that angle.
Curious what the take rate on the V6 was, compared to the EB & Coyote. Looking at the 2017 specs, the V6 & EB weren't too far apart in HP, but the EB had a good bit more Tqe.
^in Houston, I haven't seen that many v6's. I sorta follow the Houston S550 mustang group as a co-worker has a GT but....most every one has an EB.
i did see a few V6's at the office, but I think they were rentals
please tell us you beat on that Camaro like a rented mule.
Trashed tires & 23* took it back the next day. Didn't want to have to drive it 10 hours back to Houston if my flight ended up cancelled.
Had some fin with it, but not near as much as I would have in the summer.
Curious what the take rate on the V6 was, compared to the EB & Coyote.
That article said the take rate for the V6 was about 15%.
I'm not too sure how I feel on the new facelift. What about the rear changes? No one mentioned that. I don't like how the spoiler has a support in the middle, but I do like the quad exhaust and diffuser area. I know they changed the tailights to look more reminiscent of the LEDs in the headlights, but I'm not completely sold yet.
If the LEDs below the headlights are indeed amber colored, I don't like that at all. It takes away from the nice white LEDs in the headlights.
Super Snake. It’s just a cool, cool name isn’t it? Shelby, long the purveyor of rather astonishing modified Ford Mustangs and, more generally, Cars With Excellent Names, has revealed a ‘50th Anniversary’ edition of its iconic Super Snake.
It celebrates 50 years since the ‘67 SS ‘Stang (duh), and was revealed over the weekend at the Barrett Jackson auction. According to Shelby president Gary Patterson, the new model is “extraordinarily fast and a thrill to drive”.
He’s certainly not wrong on the fast thing. The standard version which you don’t want pumps out 670bhp from that 5.0-litre V8 via means of a supercharger. The version you do want is the more powerful 750bhp V8, using either a Kenne Bell or Whipple supercharger, to allow a 0-60mph time of 3.5s and a quarter mile time of 10.9s. On street-legal Michelins. With an automatic gearbox. Sheesh.
Elsewhere you’ll find Ford/Shelby spec new dampers, sway bars, springs and bushings, Wilwood six-piston calipers with floating rotors (four-pot at the rear), a Shelby brake/bearing duct cooling system, and 20in forged aluminium wheels. And yes Mr Wayne, those wheels do come in black.
If it all sounds a bit familiar, it’s because we saw the first iteration of a modern Super Snake Mustang GT in 2015. For this anniversary edition, Shelby has fitted a new bonnet (with nostrils), new rockers, new spoilers, a new grille and fog lights, a new rear tail panel and refreshed diffuser assembly. Oh, and many stripes and Super Snake badging both inside and out.
You want options? You’ve got options. Many of them. There’s the 750bhp package that you definitely need, a more extreme cooling pack, Ford Performance half shafts and wheel studs, a short-throw gear shift, and track suspension/coilovers.
Only 500 50th Anniversary editions will be built, and each one will cost just $69,995, which includes the matter of the base Mustang GT. That is good value whichever way you cut it.
“In a world filled with sterile cars,” Patterson adds, “it’s a throwback to a time when people enjoyed driving.”
^in Houston, I haven't seen that many v6's. I sorta follow the Houston S550 mustang group as a co-worker has a GT but....most every one has an EB.
i did see a few V6's at the office, but I think they were rentals
Interesting. I just received an EcoBoost Mustang from Enterprise-- automatic, but Recaro seats with heat and cooling?!
The TL is getting a rear bumper repaint courtesy of a insurance executive behind me at an In 'n Out drive-thru line.
The Mustang feels faster than the TL, but is noisier even though the Mustang has noise cancellation.
More fun than a Kia Optima or Chevy crossover, at least.
That definitely went right over my head. I took it too literal. 
06-29-2016, 11:43 AM
Crazy markups.
V6
