Full production breakdown of the GT350R including rarest specs (2015 - 2020)

[Tomster]

The Black Roof option was never available in vinyl on a GT350/R and only came as a Black Painted roof option and can’t imagine Ford ever offering a Black vinyl roof as an option for any Mustang model.

Not sure what model/color of Black painted roof combination that you refer to as not looking good as I thought that they all looked great especially when taking into consideration that you were not aware of the painted Black roof option?

As far as purchasing a 2020 model over a 2015 model for the same price, regardless of the value/driving enjoyment, after having a great amount of seat time in both model years it would be an easy choice for me and it would be the initial launch year without question.

Each to their own, but nothing like owning a launch model year despite the significant difference in value and really no difference than owing a 1965 GT350 V a 1970 GT350.

2015 all day long.....

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[wingnutt]

2015 if you’re gonna stash it in your basement…

…2020 if you wanna actually drive it

 

[PP0001]

2015 if you’re gonna stash it in your basement…

…2020 if you wanna actually drive it

Point well taken but you might be surprised as to just how many owners actually drive their 2015 GT350/R models.

A few R models that get driven are F0004 (DIB) which gets tracked on a regular basis along with Jeff Mays (MCA President forgot his chassis #) who has a lot of track miles on his vehicle. F0036 which is owned by Jay Leno gets driven and when John Atzbach sold F0037 it had over 6,000 miles on the odometer with the 4-seat models getting driven a great deal more.

When I sold F0080 (RR) to a close friend a while back it had just short of 14,000 miles on the odometer and had F0079 (TY) in my garage for many months and put a lot of miles on that vehicle as well with F0077 (SB) having only delivery miles.

Value aside, the tipping points for me to choose a 2015 over a 2020 comes down to the many unique, special and cool attributes that the other 5 model years do not possess.

* The 2015 launch model commemorated the 50th Anniversary for the introduction of the 1965 GT350.

* Extremely low production numbers with only 37 R model, 50 Track Pack and 50 Tech Pack examples.

* 2015 GT350/R models were only sold to residents of the USA.

* Only production year to come with a GT350/R car cover as standard equipment and no extra cost.

* The 2015 GT350/R VIN and chassis number matched each other unlike the other 5 model years.

* Only model year whereby an "R" was not used in the chassis number for the 37 R models.

* 2015 was the only year whereby Ford did not produce any GT350/R pre-production models.

* The majority of the 137 examples sold at MSRP.

Getting back to the 2020 GT350R, based on the revised MagneRide in 2019 and the revised steering rack for the 2020 MY, there is no question that the final model year was the most refined and best balanced performing GT350R for the 6-year production run.

 

[NPTR]

Point well taken but you might be surprised as to just how many owners actually drive their 2015 GT350/R models.

A few R models that get driven are F0004 (DIB) which gets tracked on a regular basis along with Jeff Mays (MCA President forgot his chassis #) who has a lot of track miles on his vehicle. F0036 which is owned by Jay Leno gets driven and when John Atzbach sold F0037 it had over 6,000 miles on the odometer with the 4-seat models getting driven a great deal more.

When I sold F0080 (RR) to a close friend a while back it had just short of 14,000 miles on the odometer and had F0079 (TY) in my garage for many months and put a lot of miles on that vehicle as well with F0077 (SB) having only delivery miles.

Value aside, the tipping points for me to choose a 2015 over a 2020 comes down to the many unique, special and cool attributes that the other 5 model years do not possess.

* The 2015 launch model commemorated the 50th Anniversary for the introduction of the 1965 GT350.

* Extremely low production numbers with only 37 R model, 50 Track Pack and 50 Tech Pack examples.

* 2015 GT350/R models were only sold to residents of the USA.

* Only production year to come with a GT350/R car cover as standard equipment and no extra cost.

* The 2015 GT350/R VIN and chassis number matched each other unlike the other 5 model years.

* Only model year whereby an "R" was not used in the chassis number for the 37 R models.

* 2015 was the only year whereby Ford did not produce any GT350/R pre-production models.

* The majority of the 137 examples sold at MSRP.

Getting back to the 2020 GT350R, based on the revised MagneRide in 2019 and the revised steering rack for the 2020 MY, there is no question that the final model year was the most refined and best balanced performing GT350R for the 6-year production run.

Impressive wealth of information on hand, respect! It would be awesome to get a thread going that aggregated all unique info like this by model year, including the changes / evolution that took place over the years. Would be an awesome sticky. When I slow up a bit this summer I’ll get that going, and posts like this are a great reference.

 

[TonyNJ]

Does anyone have a clear copy of one of these from Ford Performance for the 2015MY they can share? I have all but that year.

 

[Johnnydarkgt350]

Point well taken but you might be surprised as to just how many owners actually drive their 2015 GT350/R models.

A few R models that get driven are F0004 (DIB) which gets tracked on a regular basis along with Jeff Mays (MCA President forgot his chassis #) who has a lot of track miles on his vehicle. F0036 which is owned by Jay Leno gets driven and when John Atzbach sold F0037 it had over 6,000 miles on the odometer with the 4-seat models getting driven a great deal more.

When I sold F0080 (RR) to a close friend a while back it had just short of 14,000 miles on the odometer and had F0079 (TY) in my garage for many months and put a lot of miles on that vehicle as well with F0077 (SB) having only delivery miles.

Value aside, the tipping points for me to choose a 2015 over a 2020 comes down to the many unique, special and cool attributes that the other 5 model years do not possess.

* The 2015 launch model commemorated the 50th Anniversary for the introduction of the 1965 GT350.

* Extremely low production numbers with only 37 R model, 50 Track Pack and 50 Tech Pack examples.

* 2015 GT350/R models were only sold to residents of the USA.

* Only production year to come with a GT350/R car cover as standard equipment and no extra cost.

* The 2015 GT350/R VIN and chassis number matched each other unlike the other 5 model years.

* Only model year whereby an "R" was not used in the chassis number for the 37 R models.

* 2015 was the only year whereby Ford did not produce any GT350/R pre-production models.

* The majority of the 137 examples sold at MSRP.

Getting back to the 2020 GT350R, based on the revised MagneRide in 2019 and the revised steering rack for the 2020 MY, there is no question that the final model year was the most refined and best balanced performing GT350R for the 6-year production run.

Some curiosity about no pre production 2015 GT350R’s as my Pre Production GT350R was built may 24TH 2015 as PO011 but has a pre production vin starting as a G , 2016 . So in a way the 2015 pre production R ‘ s were produced in 2015, just Vin changed up to 2016 . Even though PP011 was produced before the 37 July built 2105R’s … ? Thoughts?

 

[TonyNJ]

Some curiosity about no pre production 2015 GT350R’s as my Pre Production GT350R was built may 24TH 2015 as PO011 but has a pre production vin starting as a G , 2016 . So in a way the 2015 pre production R ‘ s were produced in 2015, just Vin changed up to 2016 . Even though PP011 was produced before the 37 July built 2105R’s … ? Thoughts?

Yea, that whole situation is just a numbers game. The 2015 cars were produced right next to the early 2016 cars. They just did that 2015 special release. I own an Aug 2015 built 2016 R.

 

[Tomahawkjoe]

One things for sure about our GT350R'S, Is that you don't see very many of them at car shows. I've been to three mustang car shows here in WA state, and have not yet seen another R in the lineup. What I have seen was other regular gt350's that claim to be R's and are not.

 

[svttim]

Now if someone could just combine all the years in one spreadsheet.

 

[Coastal-Mach]

Question for you well informed brothers; Why do you think GR095 hasn't sold, this car has been auctioned, re-listed, and even discussed in this thread? If I had a dollar for every time I have drooled over this car in the last few days, I could buy it.

My biggest concern is this is a track car, and I would never use it as such, along with the fact that my fat-ass likes A/C. For my uses, I wonder if I should pursue a different R. I know that's my decision, and most of this is me thinking out loud, but any good sound advice or conversation would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks everyone

 

[svttim]

Question for you well informed brothers; Why do you thing GR095 hasn't sold, this car has been auctioned, re-listed, and even discussed in this thread? If I had a dollar for every time I have drooled over this car in the last few days, I could buy it.

My biggest concern is this is a track car, and I would never use it as such, along with the fact that my fat-ass likes A/C. For my uses, I wonder if I should pursue a different R. I know that's my decision, and most of this is me thinking out loud, but any good sound advice or conversation would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks everyone

I track my car but I have my AC and as cool as base Rs are, not for me unless I can have 2

 

[Coastal-Mach]

I track my car but I have my AC and as cool as base Rs are, not for me unless I can have 2

Thank you Tim, that's kinda where I'm at. Finding an R with A/C will fit the bill.

 

[rush0024]

One things for sure about our GT350R'S, Is that you don't see very many of them at car shows. I've been to three mustang car shows here in WA state, and have not yet seen another R in the lineup. What I have seen was other regular gt350's that claim to be R's and are not.

I've had my R for 3 years now. Have been to many car shows during that time, spanning all different types from cars and coffee type stuff to really big car events. I have seen 0 GT350R's. I have seen a few GT350's some of which are pretending to be an R with the red badges / stripes. A lot of people that come up to my car have no idea what the difference is between a R and non R. I love listening to them talk and some of them will point out that it only says GT350 on the side therefore it must not be an R, lol. Happens all the time.

It's also a little weird, but rarely do other Mustang owners come up to me at shows. It kind of just feels like I'm an outsider when there are a lot of other Mustangs at a particular show. They all kind of group up and chat but they don't really acknowledge me. Of course this goes both ways. I typically don't approach other Mustang owners either, unless they have something really special (like a Boss 429 or something like that. A modded 2004 GT isn't going to really excite me).

Does anyone else feel this way with their R?

 

[TonyNJ]

Question for you well informed brothers; Why do you thing GR095 hasn't sold, this car has been auctioned, re-listed, and even discussed in this thread? If I had a dollar for every time I have drooled over this car in the last few days, I could buy it.

My biggest concern is this is a track car, and I would never use it as such, along with the fact that my fat-ass likes A/C. For my uses, I wonder if I should pursue a different R. I know that's my decision, and most of this is me thinking out loud, but any good sound advice or conversation would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks everyone

Where is it for sale? Do you have the auction link?

 

[Coastal-Mach]

Where is it for sale? Do you have the auction link?

Here is the actual ink to LRA:

https://www.lraautomuseumandsales.com/vehicles/364/2016-ford-shelby-gt350r

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