Teenager Allegedly Busted Hitting 208mph In A Mustang

Although the 2011 Mustang shouldn't do more than 155mph in factory condition, one American teen has been caught doing 208mph - but we're a bit dubious about that

Matt Kimberley

16 Nov 2016

Teenager Allegedly Busted Hitting 208mph In A Mustang

A 19-year-old kid in Oklahoma has – apparently – been caught driving at 208mph in a 2011 Ford Mustang. No, we’re not sure either.

Local news outlet kfor.com is reporting that a state trooper pulled teenage Hector Fraire over after first clocking his Mustang at 176mph and then 208mph. The lad allegedly tried to escape the police by hitting the gas and turning all his lights off – including, so the story claims, his brake lights. Hmmm.

Arrested for reckless driving and ‘felony eluding’, the one question we’d really like to ask is how the hell he managed to get any 2011 pony car to hit 208mph. We’d want the trooper’s speed gun testing, for starters…

Most V8 Mustangs of that era are limited to 155mph, but some owners take the reins off. Jalopnik speculates that the 2011 car’s derestricted top speed would be about 170mph at the absolute most, and even the later GT500 model from 2013 would only reach 189mph.

If that car was well short of 200mph despite its 662bhp, how much power would Fraire’s have needed to hit 208mph on the street? Would the Mustang’s barn-door aerodynamics even allow it with less than 1000bhp?

Either the trooper’s equipment is wrong or it’s one of the most powerful Mustangs ever built. If it’s the latter, he’d undoubtedly have had some serious danger to his manifold.

Comments

Other than the fact that I posted this days ago, the top speed of a ‘13-14 GT500 is 202 mph in ideal conditions. Keep in mind that the 5.0 can take 900 hp when stock, and that the driver could have had nos. 900 hp should take him to that speed quite easily enough. Let alone all the other possible heavy mods.