GT500 takes to the street and track in Las Vegas

[FastCarFanBoy]

An as delivered Demon is a mid 10 second car...A GT500 could very well run similar times, It's going to come down to HP and weight.

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[obspsd]

Time will tell

True. I think the 2020 GT500 will run 10.5 to 10.8 in the 1/4 mile stock. which is still very very fast.

 

[obspsd]

An as delivered Demon is a mid 10 second car...A GT500 could very well run similar times, It's going to come down to HP and weight.

A GT500 will beat a Dodge Demon on the street, and be very close on the drag strip if the Demon is running on 808hp. However the Demon can run high 9s with the 840hp. THE DEMON WILL NOT RUN 9.65

 

[MaskedRacerX]

Jim is a good friend. He is a very intelligent individual and as passionate as anyone about the cars. He believes in what he says, unlike a used car salesman. He is the marketing manager and as you eluded to, he has a job to do. We are lucky to have guys like Jim still at Ford. Jim spend a vast majority of time, on track, in the GT350 and he is a good driver as well. He is an ally in our world.

Yeah, he might do a little "marketing speak", but that's cool, if you're smarter than a kitchen appliance, you can easily parse out the facts from the hyperbole. He seems enthusiastic, we (well some of you lucky f**ckers ) are getting this new GT500 that I'm sure is going to be incredible, and he had a hand in it.

Anybody not want his job?

 

[NightParade]

New little vid with more of the car driving around in parking lot. It does look so good moving out in the wild :^)

 

[Patio208]

Not performance related but Jim said they might offer a blue interior accent color. Please do!

 

[Tomster]

New little vid with more of the car driving around in parking lot. It does look so good moving out in the wild :^)

At 3:49, Jim states "the transmission weighs about the same".

I think the 500 is going to weigh in less than wht people were saying. Yes, the blower, bigger brakes, extra coolers, etc will add to the weight. I'd like to think that ford has figured out ways to remove some of the weight before adding the items mentioned above.

It will be interesting to see.

 

[chill66]

At around the 6:10 mark, does Jim state that the GT500 is nearly 4 seconds faster than a GT350R around an unnamed 2.5 mile track???

 

[obspsd]

At around the 6:10 mark, does Jim state that the GT500 is nearly 4 seconds faster than a GT350R around an unnamed 2.5 mile track???

I think so.

 

[obspsd]

At 3:49, Jim states "the transmission weighs about the same".

I think the 500 is going to weigh in less than wht people were saying. Yes, the blower, bigger brakes, extra coolers, etc will add to the weight. I'd like to think that ford has figured out ways to remove some of the weight before adding the items mentioned above.

It will be interesting to see.

The carbon fiber track pack car will be under 4,000 pounds.

 

[Tomster]

The carbon fiber track pack car will be under 4,000 pounds.

and how do you know?

 

[obspsd]

Ford did not tell me if that's what you mean. Just by doing the math it has/should be just under 4,000 pounds. Base GT500 around 4,100 pounds.

 

[V00D00]

At around the 6:10 mark, does Jim state that the GT500 is nearly 4 seconds faster than a GT350R around an unnamed 2.5 mile track???

How many 2.5 mile tracks has ford put the 350 on? we have time to dig deeper on this

 

[Tomster]

How many 2.5 mile tracks has ford put the 350 on? we have time to dig deeper on this

It really doesn't matter.

But for discussions sake the track that I think of that Ford uses quite a bit are the Utah Motorsports Campus. The big track is broken down to two smaller tracks right at about 2.5 miles. The release footage was all shot there, the spied video of the camo'd 500 was shot there. A lot of time was spend there and is a decent track to test the various types of turns and the handling performance of the car. This track is not a high speed track however, but with the speed limiter, I don't think that top end speed is a metric they are after anyway.

 

[chill66]

How many 2.5 mile tracks has ford put the 350 on? we have time to dig deeper on this

Interestingly enough, the GT350R was less than a second slower than the ZL1 at Willow Springs (popular 2.5 mile track). Not sure how much quicker a ZL1 1LE is compared to the ZL1.

Not saying that's the track, but being 4 seconds faster than the R makes me think the ZL1 1LE is going to be embarrassed by the GT500.

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