Review: 2020 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 is Fastest, Most Powerful Production Mustang Ever
We’ve tested many brightly colored Mustangs over the decades. Most were the kind anyone could rent in Las Vegas or Fort Lauderdale. They were all fun, built to make smiles at moderate prices. Some had stripes. Others came with wings. A few more had emblems of snakes and the surname of a Texas chicken farmer who became one of the most successful American racing drivers and team owners in history.
The 2020 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 is all of those last things. And you most definitely cannot rent one.
It’s perfect timing for the fastest, most powerful production Mustang in the car’s 56-year history. There’s a major movie about Carroll Shelby and his masterful triumph with Ford over Ferrari in the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans. But Ford would be able to sell every GT500 without Matt Damon on screen or Idris Elba making headlines at the electric Mustang’s debut in Los Angeles. We now live in a world where anyone who received a driver’s license and hasn’t completed one lick of racing school can walk out of a Ford showroom with a 760-horsepower Mustang. With a factory warranty, no less.
