Fast New Shelby Mustang GT500 Full Test
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It’s something like trying to drive the 2010 Ford Shelby GT500 on a roller-coaster, only there are no steel tracks to keep you from slithering off the pavement and ending up in a flaming heap of 540-horsepower Mustang.
You can’t even see where you’re going, really. Hard on it, the GT500’s rear tires begin spinning just as you can see nothing but sky in the windshield. You’re on top of the hump at the entrance to Infineon Raceway’s Turn 6, and as your stomach and both right-side tires go weightless, you start a long, long dive to the left, sliding sideways all the way down the hill and around the 180-degree corner.
The Shelby GT500 is so torqued up with the cornering force from the low-profile 19-inch tires and the drive from the supercharged V8 that you can practically hear the welds popping in the chassis. But something is different this time — palms are not slick with sweat, tires are not threatening to let go at the most inopportune moment and steering left in order to go right is a joy and not a reflex of self-preservation.
The 2010 Ford Shelby GT500 gets 2 mpg more on the EPA highway cycle this year. The Ford engineers are really proud of this. But every time we make another lap and slide down Turn 6, we have our doubts that fuel economy is what this car is about.
Serving Our Inner Adolescent
We’re behaving like adults as the Ford engineers tell us all about the 2010 Ford Shelby GT500, even as we hear a couple of the cars making shake-down runs on the quarter-mile strip at Infineon Raceway a few hundred feet away. And in many ways, the GT500 itself is trying to act more like an adult, casting aside the muscle-bound character of the 2007 Ford Shelby GT500.
As the Ford people tell us, they started with the limited-production 2008 Ford Shelby GT500KR, the exclusive (1,700 examples built) and revenue-enhancing (MSRP $79,995) Mustang produced last year. And aside from a few fewer Shelby badges (the KR had many to spare), the GT500 is like the KR in almost every way, except it’s built at the Mustang plant in Flat Rock, Michigan, rather than at the Shelby facility in Las Vegas.
You can tell as soon as you open the new GT500’s hood, complete with hot-air extractors. The supercharged and intercooled DOHC 5.4-liter V8 with its truck-style iron block is still in place, but now it carries a conical air filter in its own sealed cold-air box behind the left-side headlight, an innovation that increases airflow while resisting power-sapping heat soak. For the GT500, this new cold-air intake required the migration of the iconic Cobra badge on the grille from the left side to the right side.
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Tags: 2010, auto, car, cobra, engine, Ford, gt, GT500, motor, Muscle, Mustang, performance, pony, race, Shelby, V6, V8
By EvilViolator124 on Feb 11, 2010
DAMN!! thats one …
DAMN!! thats one badass car!!
By bigradke17 on Feb 11, 2010
lol no it beat is …
lol no it beat is by .1 buddy
By cinderzx on Feb 11, 2010
They did not, its …
They did not, its still on the 2011
By dres2g on Feb 11, 2010
yeah it bet it but …
yeah it bet it but for the price your paying on the shelby you can buy a camaro ss do some mods beat it and still have cash left over not saying that shelby isnt badass it is but money wise better go camaro
By peterclark17 on Feb 11, 2010
anyone know if they …
anyone know if they got rid of the live rear axle for this one?
By Turbo07RT on Feb 11, 2010
@T4v0o though i do …
@T4v0o though i do liek the shelby….the camero ss is a better overall performing car on road and track
By GUITARGRIMREAPER on Feb 11, 2010
@T4v0o
mate u …
@T4v0o
mate u gotta get the shelby bro, there is a vid on here with this car and the camaro ss dragging, shelby smashes it by 1second
By prosurfer2222 on Feb 11, 2010
wow get help
wow get help
By prosurfer2222 on Feb 11, 2010
bet it still …
bet it still handles like shitttt
By gettinmydiksukd on Feb 11, 2010
beautiful
beautiful
By Shiftwear on Feb 11, 2010
@liu19870908
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@liu19870908
agree but it makes wheel hops when spinning .. like the solid axle better..
By liu19870908 on Feb 11, 2010
roush can change …
roush can change the rear suspension, make it control arms, that would be better. check their website dude.
By SamuriNinja90 on Feb 11, 2010
ya so its fast, but …
ya so its fast, but it handles like a garbage can.
lol he said the driver always feels in control.
NO! the driver himself in this video said himself its hard to keep it under control and he said theres too much under steer and he didn’t seem too impressed.
By balco444 on Feb 11, 2010
soon as i get my …
soon as i get my tax check im ordering one and im going to rub my all over it every night. might even get the cobra snake tattd on my neck
By Roger0416 on Feb 11, 2010
This one…? DUH …
This one…? DUH lol this cars gorgeous
By T4v0o on Feb 11, 2010
omg i have to …
omg i have to choose between this car and the camaro ss idk wtf to do
By Alydic on Feb 11, 2010
Thats hot!!
Thats hot!!
By claudia22juiz on Feb 11, 2010
Soy mujer, pero me …
Soy mujer, pero me encanta este auto tanto como los zapatos y el chocolate jajaja!!!
By neikotyre on Feb 11, 2010
thats limited to. …
thats limited to. one of my friends has one that is still stock but tuned and it will actually do 190
By Michiganborn1969 on Feb 11, 2010
Hummm just found …
Hummm just found out that the top speed is only 155 MPH
By Michiganborn1969 on Feb 11, 2010
OMG!!! I’m trying …
OMG!!! I’m trying to control my drooling for my ultimate dream machine. 5.4L/540HP @510 pounds of toruqe??? Now just need 50k lmao.
By mtktm on Feb 11, 2010
The suggested HP …
The suggested HP numbers, are HP at the crank, not at the wheels. So about 15-20% less than crank numbers.
And it still has a live rear axel o_O. old tech :p
By jjjester123321 on Feb 11, 2010
FUCKIN RIGHT DOGGY.
RIGHT DOGGY.
By carcollector1 on Feb 11, 2010
those things start …
those things start at $105,000. This mustang is only $50,000
By chokolladeaa on Feb 11, 2010
im a girl, but I …
im a girl, but I love this car!!! She is really beautiful and I think when in the future I really get her !!!