The 50th Anniversary Shelby Super Snake Mustang Is A 740bhp Monster
It’s been a pretty big week for shouty American cars with V8s. We had the news about the Ford Mustang facelift, more details emerging about the Dodge Challenger SRT Demon and now this: the 50th Anniversary Shelby Super Snake Mustang.
As with the last Super Snake Mustang from Shelby American, the 50th Anniversary car straps a supercharger to the familiar 5.0-litre Coyote V8 to push the eight-cylinder anger well beyond 600bhp. It’s good for 660bhp in ‘standard’ guise, although if you tick the right options (which you absolutely should), that jumps to 740bhp. Lovely.
Thankfully, Shelby hasn’t just chucked a load of power to the rear wheels and left it at that. The 50th also gets upgraded brakes in the form of six-piston front/four-piston rear callipers from Wilwood, along with a new ducting to keep them cool.
The suspension has been given a thorough working over with new dampers, springs, anti-roll bars and bushes, while the exterior has been treated to a whole host of angrier body parts. Plus a smattering of 50th Anniversary badges, obviously.
Naturally this doesn’t come cheap: the total cost including the standard Mustang donor car comes to $69,995, before you tick that 740bhp option. But for a proper Shelby-tuned pony car with a silly power output and an enviable parts list, perhaps that’s not so bad.
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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New best hp-dollar ratio
How about a 9999999999999999hp car for 2000 dollara
Nope! Nissan Versa beats it! $104/hp for the 660hp version of this one, vs $101/hp for the versa!
This vs Hellcat?
*demon😈
The Mustang is not only more powerful, lighter and better looking, it’s also cheaper. I think that’s a win for the Mustang. SRT plans to retake the record with the Demon, but it’s just going to be too expensive, I imagine, to compete with any of those. In fact, it will be its own market, because I haven’t heard of any market segments with the description “heavy, 1000 horsepower, 4 seats, 2 doors, RWD, medium comfort level and build quality”. I mean, let’s be honest, the only people who’ll shell out the 80-100k for a Demon are those who love Challengers and hate modifying. Not saying it’s a bad car, it just seems like a bad idea.
What’s next? Ultra Super Snake..
Byebye Hellcat. This looks amazing
But not for long
Freedom intesifies
They need a white one for that to happen lol
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With all this, who knows what will come!
waits for the new z/28
Wasnt there a mustang super sbake with 850hp?
there wasnt a super sbake but there was a super snake
the want…
Finally something good from Ford this week!
They just changed the colors.
Duh…
Joke!