Agreed. All else being equal with the car, having a motor with less peak power, but a nice broad curve can not only perform better overall, but be more fun to drive as well. Peak HP is definitely an overrated spec... great for magazine racers and chest thumping by the manufacturers though, and that's what sells a lot of cars to the uninformed majority.
If you can't see how much more the Shelby offers over the GT, you're not in the target audience for the car, and the GT will suit you just fine.
Oh, and I can pretty much guarantee you it's going to be significantly over 500HP...
Nah, it's really not. It's a very specialized motor for a specialized purpose. This likely isn't going to trickle down into lesser models in the Mustang fleet. I would not be surprised if it never makes it into another model, unless it's another track focused offering (a la Boss).
Lmao I see this as a big middle finger to the motortrend GM loyalists, very funny.Love Car and Driver having it as their FB cover photo
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I may be the only one but I love the minimalistic engine bay, it may not be a clean one but it shows function over form, no engine cover to save weight, very basic and subtle, almost sleeper in a way.
Nice to see it also has two mount points on each side. I'm sure that helps stiffen it up as well.
Not the same as the cross brace on the PP cars. The PP cars brace is steel that looks like aluminum from the size of the weld, there is no weld on the standard brace. The rear brace which is black and is hard to see appears the same, it is steel and .200" thick and the more important of the two.
