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2016 Shelby GT350R Mustang snagged sans heavy camo - Road & Track
The 2016 Mustang Shelby GT350R looks excellent, sounds evil
The 2016 Shelby GT350R hit the Nürburgring today for testing, marking the car's first appearance in the wild sans the heavy burqas. The GT350 R is to the GT350 as the Laguna Seca was to the Boss 302. We say this is the R for two reasons—the big front splitter and the massive front brakes, which we believe to be carbon-ceramic.
As excellent as it looks, it sounds even better. We're told the GT350 has an all-motor, flat-plane-crank V8 pumping out 500+ hp and displacing slightly more than the 5.0 Coyote it's derived from.
This isn't a Hellcat killer. Ford has done the massive-horsepower thing with the outgoing GT500 already. That point has been proven. What this new SVT Mustang should do, however, is give the Camaro Z/28 fits.
Finally. This SVT's new magnum opus, the 2016 Ford Mustang Shelby GT350. In fact, there's good reason to believe this is the GT350R (an even more track-focused version of the GT350, much like the Laguna Seca was the ultimate iteration of the Boss 302). The car, as you can see was caught sans cladding while testing at the Nurburgring, likely to allow engineers to collect proper aero/cooling data.
The GT350 sports a unique front fascia, and features pronounced heat extractors on the hood and the front fenders (just as the prior spy shots suggested). It's wearing Michelin Pilor Super Sports on placeholder wheels for the moment, and you can see the massive rotors mounted up front. Their size and nature (likely carbon ceramic) again suggest that this is the hotter GT350R. Likewise, the pronounced front aero seals the deal here—you're looking at the GT350R.
be curious to hear more info/truth on the flat plane 8. I assume done for CG. sure does sound unique.
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The 2016 Mustang Shelby GT350R looks excellent, sounds evil
The 2016 Shelby GT350R hit the Nürburgring today for testing, marking the car's first appearance in the wild sans the heavy burqas. The GT350 R is to the GT350 as the Laguna Seca was to the Boss 302. We say this is the R for two reasons—the big front splitter and the massive front brakes, which we believe to be carbon-ceramic.
As excellent as it looks, it sounds even better. We're told the GT350 has an all-motor, flat-plane-crank V8 pumping out 500+ hp and displacing slightly more than the 5.0 Coyote it's derived from.
This isn't a Hellcat killer. Ford has done the massive-horsepower thing with the outgoing GT500 already. That point has been proven. What this new SVT Mustang should do, however, is give the Camaro Z/28 fits.
Finally. This SVT's new magnum opus, the 2016 Ford Mustang Shelby GT350. In fact, there's good reason to believe this is the GT350R (an even more track-focused version of the GT350, much like the Laguna Seca was the ultimate iteration of the Boss 302). The car, as you can see was caught sans cladding while testing at the Nurburgring, likely to allow engineers to collect proper aero/cooling data.
The GT350 sports a unique front fascia, and features pronounced heat extractors on the hood and the front fenders (just as the prior spy shots suggested). It's wearing Michelin Pilor Super Sports on placeholder wheels for the moment, and you can see the massive rotors mounted up front. Their size and nature (likely carbon ceramic) again suggest that this is the hotter GT350R. Likewise, the pronounced front aero seals the deal here—you're looking at the GT350R.
be curious to hear more info/truth on the flat plane 8. I assume done for CG. sure does sound unique.
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