The 50th Anniversary Shelby Super Snake Mustang Is A 740bhp Monster

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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.

The 50th Anniversary Shelby Super Snake Mustang Is A 740bhp Monster

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.

The 50th Anniversary Shelby Super Snake Mustang Is A 740bhp Monster

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.

The 50th Anniversary Shelby Super Snake Mustang Is A 740bhp Monster

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.

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Chewbacca_buddy (McLaren squad)(VW GTI Clubsport)(McLaren 60

New best hp-dollar ratio

01/20/2017 - 11:10 |
48 | 0

How about a 9999999999999999hp car for 2000 dollara

01/20/2017 - 11:13 |
6 | 40

Nope! Nissan Versa beats it! $104/hp for the 660hp version of this one, vs $101/hp for the versa!

01/20/2017 - 17:58 |
14 | 0
Darth Imperius/Anthony🇭🇷

This vs Hellcat?

01/20/2017 - 11:11 |
8 | 2

*demon😈

01/20/2017 - 11:13 |
14 | 2

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.

01/22/2017 - 23:30 |
2 | 0
Anonymous

What’s next? Ultra Super Snake..

01/20/2017 - 11:12 |
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sander0811

Byebye Hellcat. This looks amazing

01/20/2017 - 11:12 |
8 | 2

But not for long

01/20/2017 - 11:25 |
4 | 0
Tomislav Celić

Freedom intesifies

01/20/2017 - 11:24 |
256 | 2
Chewbacca_buddy (McLaren squad)(VW GTI Clubsport)(McLaren 60

In reply to by Tomislav Celić

They need a white one for that to happen lol

01/20/2017 - 11:56 |
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Monty4248

With all this, who knows what will come!

waits for the new z/28

01/20/2017 - 11:26 |
10 | 2
miki_turbo

Wasnt there a mustang super sbake with 850hp?

01/20/2017 - 11:38 |
0 | 0

there wasnt a super sbake but there was a super snake

01/20/2017 - 13:14 |
0 | 0
The Petrolicious Kid (s-tuner squad)

the want…

01/20/2017 - 11:40 |
6 | 0
Anonymous

Finally something good from Ford this week!

01/20/2017 - 11:52 |
2 | 2
Anonymous

They just changed the colors.

Duh…

Joke!

01/20/2017 - 11:58 |
2 | 2