{"id":58583,"date":"2019-01-18T12:17:44","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T20:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=58583"},"modified":"2019-01-18T12:17:44","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T20:17:44","slug":"2020-shelby-mustang-gt500-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/2020-shelby-mustang-gt500-is-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 Shelby Mustang GT500 is Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wecVzPzf8R4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The new Gt500 has Ford fans buzzing. Introduced at Detroit&#8217;s\u00a0 North American International Auto Show, this new Shelby puts out over 700 horsepower and will drop in showrooms this Fall 2019. The heart\u00a0of this Mustang will be a 5.2 liter supercharged (of course) v8. The engineers who built this car wanted to make a car that was both drag strip and road course capable.\u00a0 If that 5.2 v8 sounds familiar it&#8217;s because it&#8217;s the same ultra-high revving\u00a0Voodoo engine from the Gt350.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we were going to make the GT500 the pinnacle of the Mustang now, it has to do both. There&#8217;s just no question,\u201d Carl Widmann, chief engineer at Ford Performance told me. \u201cWe have so much capability out of the GT350 and all the Performance Packs and the base Mustang lineup. To be that pinnacle or the halo for any Mustang, it had to have that capability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe knew we wanted the 5.2-liter block out of the GT350,\u201d Widmann said. \u201cThe trick was we had to really modify it to take all the boost that comes off that 2.6-liter Eaton supercharger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Ford will not be offering a manual gearbox &#8212; queue keyboard slam. However, Widmann did not rule out the possibility of adding one. Ford wanted to go performance over traditions and will solely offer a dual-clutch transmission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we&#8217;ve done is provided more customization on the track for different purchasers,\u201d Widmann said. \u201cIt&#8217;s got a little bit more flexibility to set it up the way you want.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We will keep you posted on further developments.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The new Gt500 has Ford fans buzzing. <\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":58584,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3470,22],"tags":[6572,3391,2,43,5975,41,542,1012,4823],"class_list":["post-58583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-event-coverage","tag-auto-show","tag-detroit","tag-drag-racing","tag-ford","tag-gt500","tag-news","tag-road-racing","tag-shelby","tag-track"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Untitled.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-feT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58583","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=58583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58585,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58583\/revisions\/58585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}