{"id":11300,"date":"2015-01-16T15:24:13","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T23:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=11300"},"modified":"2015-01-16T15:24:13","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T23:24:13","slug":"shelby-announces-the-new-gt-with-over-600-horsepower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/shelby-announces-the-new-gt-with-over-600-horsepower\/","title":{"rendered":"Shelby Announces The New GT With Over 600 Horsepower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/News-SGT011615-1-122.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"11309\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/shelby-announces-the-new-gt-with-over-600-horsepower\/news-sgt011615-1-122\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/News-SGT011615-1-122.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1024,576\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;18&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Shelby American&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 5D Mark III&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1420877990&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;70&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.033333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"News-SGT011615-1 (1)22\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/News-SGT011615-1-122-300x169.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/News-SGT011615-1-122-1024x576.jpg\" class=\" size-full wp-image-11309 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/News-SGT011615-1-122.jpg\" alt=\"News-SGT011615-1 (1)22\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/News-SGT011615-1-122.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/News-SGT011615-1-122-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/News-SGT011615-1-122-308x173.jpg 308w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/News-SGT011615-1-122-678x381.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today Shelby announced the all new Shelby GT based off of the 2015 Ford Mustang.\u00a0 The Shelby GT, not to be confused the Ford GT350 announced in Detroit, will have a supercharged 627-horsepower V-8. The GT will sport plenty of performance and handling upgrades from the guys at Ford Performance such as a supercharger and upgraded 3.73 gears. The Shelby team will keep up their reputation of beautiful sounding cars by equipping all GT\u2019s with a steel tipped Borla exhaust.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/News-SGT011615-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"11310\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/shelby-announces-the-new-gt-with-over-600-horsepower\/news-sgt011615-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/News-SGT011615-2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1024,683\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Shelby American&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 5D Mark III&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1417852179&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;105&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.008&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"News-SGT011615-2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/News-SGT011615-2-300x200.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/News-SGT011615-2-1024x683.jpg\" class=\" size-full wp-image-11310 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/News-SGT011615-2.jpg\" alt=\"News-SGT011615-2\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/News-SGT011615-2.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/News-SGT011615-2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 2015 Shelby GT is a nicely balanced muscle car that does everything well, whether on the track or on the drag strip\u201d said Gary Patterson, Shelby American Vice President of Strategic Sales and Media Relations.\u00a0 The new 2015 Shelby will now also be offering the new GT\u2019s in either a manual or automatic transmission. For the people that think 627-horsepower is too tame, Shelby will offer a kit boosting the Shelby GT\u2019s output to over 700-hp. This Dearborn beast will definitely be a contender for the muscle car crown currently held by the Dodge Challenger Hellcat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>It looks like the Dodge Challenger Hellcat has some new competition coming from Shelby and the boys in blue. <\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":11312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3470],"tags":[1835,43,1629,892,41,1012,1085],"class_list":["post-11300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-dearborn","tag-ford","tag-muscle-car","tag-mustang","tag-news","tag-shelby","tag-shelby-gt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/FEAT16.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-2Wg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11300"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11315,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11300\/revisions\/11315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}