Neck-Snapping New Shelby May Be the Most Fun Mustang Ever - Wired
I flash my best You haven’t made a terrible mistake smile, shift into first, and take off down one of America’s toughest race tracks. I hope I’m right, because I’m at the wheel of the 2016 Shelby GT350R Mustang, the track-dedicated, lightweight, powered-up version take on the GT350 Mustang, itself the more impressive version of the 2015 Mustang. A few laps later, everyone’s okay, and I’ve gotten a personal look at one of the most fun track cars Ford has ever built. The $62,000 GT350R is named for Carroll Shelby’s iconic 1965 track monster: the first racing mustang. The epic auto designer and engineer loved to take good street cars, strip them down, and making them into great race cars. Shelby, a WWII flight instructor and highly accomplished race car driver, changed America for the better when he stuffed a Ford V8 under the hood of the AC Ace British roadster. A few years later, he and Ford made a racing version of the 1965 Mustang by cutting out weight, amping up the power, and improving the suspension. Source: www.wired.com
