Ford Tweets Picture of 2020 Mustang Shelby GT500 Engine
We’re just 45 days away from the 2019 Detroit Auto Show and the highly anticipated debut of the 2020 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500. Ford is keeping us all engaged in the midst of L.A. Auto Show fever by tweeting out yet another teaser image, which confirms a Jan. 14 debut and gives us a nice, clean look at the Shelby GT500 engine.
The suggestion that there are 500 reasons to love the new Shelby GT500 should in itself demand 500 tweets in which the new Mustang is pieced together one bit at a time. Kind of like that Johnny Cash song, but in tweet form. With just a month and a half to go, it’s unlikely, however, that Ford will go to quite that length.
We have 500 reasons why you should love the GT500. Here’s the first one. ? #FordMustang #GT500 pic.twitter.com/BcNtruKC4w
— Ford Mustang (@FordMustang) November 28, 2018
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Apart from revealing that the Mustang Shelby GT500 will produce more than 700 horsepower, Ford has been otherwise mum about the high-powered pony car. Eagle-eyed Motor1 writer Christopher Smith on Thursday noted that a display at the Los Angeles Auto Show strangely pegged the Shelby GT500’s supercharged V8 as delivering “over 650 horsepower” — undercutting the previously announced total by a good 50 horses — prompting Ford to confirm that, yes, more than 700 horsepower is the expected output.
But that’s it! And that’s all we really know about this thing for now, all other speculation about seven-speed dual clutch transmissions and whatnot aside. Fortunately, we don’t have much longer to wait, so just hold on to your hat and January will be here in a jiff.
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