This Is The New Shelby GT350 Mustang

This is the new Shelby GT350 Mustang

500bhp-plus, track-ready Stang is Ford’s most powerful naturally aspirated V8 production car yet.

This is the new Shelby GT350 Mustang, the most extreme iteration yet of Ford’s sixth-gen pony car. And under that angry, stripped bonnet lurks nothing less than the most powerful naturally aspirated motor ever fitted to a production Ford.

Over 500bhp of power, to be more precise, courtesy of a 5.2-litre V8 that Ford calls ‘essentially an all-new powerplant.”

It’s the Blue Oval’s first production V8 ever to employ a flat-plane crankshaft, a configuration Ford says permits faster revving, better cylinder breathing and an even better noise (a “distinctive, throaty howl,” according to Ford performance boss Jamal Hameedi).

Oh, and no shortage of torque, either: the GT350’s peak twist output stands at over 400lb ft. [x]