2020 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 Is the Most Powerful Ford Ever Built

It's got more than 700 horsepower and a wing stolen from a GT4 race car, but unfortunately it won't come with a manual transmission.

Let’s get the hard part out of the way first: it’s not a Voodoo. The car you see here, the 2020 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500, will run a 5.2-liter V8, but it’s not the flat-plane screamer that we love so dearly in the GT350. It is, however supercharged. Like, really supercharged. A 2.65-liter blower sits nestled deep in the vee of the aluminum block, capable of stuffing up to 12 psi of cooled air into the engine.

While exact power specs have not yet been revealed, at a Ford preview event the week before the car's debut at the 2019 North American International Auto Show, chief program engineer Carl Widmann assured us that the horsepower would be north of 700 … read more