bitkahuna

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wow, 335hp from 2.3L 4 turbo.



Ford Shelby GT now available with Mustang's EcoBoost engine

Shelby GT is now also available with the Mustang EcoBoost’s turbocharged 2.3-liter four-cylinder engine. Ford doesn’t offer its V-6-powered Mustangs outside North America, hence the reason Shelby has focused on the four-banger.


By Viknesh Vijayenthiran, MotorAuthority September 16, 2015


A Ford 2015 Shelby GT350R Mustang vehicle sits on the final production line at the Ford Motor Flat Rock Assembly Plant in Flat Rock, Mic. The Shelby GT is now also available with the Mustang EcoBoost’s turbocharged 2.3-liter four-cylinder engine. (Rebecca Cook/Reuters/File)





Shelby American’s first vehicle based on the Ford Motor Company’s [NYSE:F] sixth-generation Mustang was the Shelby GT, which is built from a donor Mustang GT and delivers in excess of 600 horsepower thanks to a custom supercharger upgrade for the car’s 5.0-liter V-8. But as Shelby expands outside of North America for the first time, the tuner has had to accept that in some markets there is significant demand for its products minus the V-8 engine.
That’s why the Shelby GT is now also available with the Mustang EcoBoost’s turbocharged 2.3-liter four-cylinder engine. Ford doesn’t offer its V-6-powered Mustangs outside North America, hence the reason Shelby has focused on the four-banger.
“Ever since Ford announced that its terrific new Mustang would be available worldwide, requests for Shelby versions of the car have rolled in from across the globe,” Shelby American CEO Joe Conway said in a statement. “Since the majority of Mustangs that Ford offers in many of those countries will be the EcoBoost model, our team has been developing a Shelby GT model for the nimble new turbocharged four-cylinder car, as well as the V-8-powered GT.”
Shelby’s upgrades for the car see output dialed to 335 horsepower, up from 310 hp in the stock model. The cars also benefit from sharper handling, beefier brakes, 20-inch wheels, a new exhaust, carbon fiber aero aids, and various interior mods. Crucially, the vehicles are included in the official Shelby registry, even those examples being built in licensed workshops located around the globe.
Shelby says the package was specifically developed for a new network of ‘Shelby Mod Shops’ that will stretch from Europe to South Africa, China and Australia. They will add the Shelby package to a Ford Mustang that a customer has purchased locally. Of course, it’s also available Stateside.
Anyone with a Mustang EcoBoost can turn their car into a Shelby GT for $23,995. From here, there’s a lost list of optional extras that can be added including more aggressive brakes, stronger half shafts, more cooling, new brake ducts, and carbon fiber body accents.




http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/In...coBoost-engine

LOWFAST

Wow, a terrible rip off for some ugly "aero" and 25 hp.

Mr Bond

I do honestly not know who would buy a 4 cyl Mustang in Europe . Taxes and other things may be important on a daily driver for the average person, but I dont know a single person that has a 4 cyl American car here. People who buys those kind of cars does not care about taxes and gas price.

The only problem( in the past ) was the price since you had to go to a smaller specialized company to import everything from the car itself to spare parts and so on, which made the price for owning a US car to climb into in the Porsche 911 region.

LOWFAST

Also this article does not seem to understand that the GT350 and the car they are talking about are nothing the same. One is a high performance factory car by ford, the other is a tack-on tuner car from Shelby America.

Hoovey689

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Should help spur a few more sales to an already impressive Mustang line

mmarshall

I'll admit that 335+ HP from a turbo 4 isn't bad (the Subaru STi and Mitsubishi Evo both do 300 HP+ from turbo 4s).........but, in a SHELBY? What's next, a Challenger Hellcat with a Fiat MuitiAir four-cylinder?

bagwell

uhhhhh....no thanks.

LOWFAST

Or spend $500 on a tuner and have the same or better power and $23,495 in your pocket. This article irritates me, so poorly written and it has nothing, and I mean nothing to do with the GT350 yet they used it as the picture. Motor Authority does not seem like an "authority."

bitkahuna

iTrader: (20)

i think the article does get it, but doesn't state things...

i was not aware that ford licenses the shelby name from shelby for the shelby gt350.

this article of course is for a shelby 'package' from shelby, for the ecoboost mustang.

bitkahuna

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another good article on it:

http://blog.caranddriver.com/shelby-...re-horsepower/

blacksc400

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Are they serious? Or it's 23,995 for a Shelby Mustang?

mmarshall

The Ford/Shelby relationship goes back even before the 1Gen Mustang......to the days, in the early 60s, of the first AC Cobras equipped with Ford 289 and 427 c.i. V8s.

bagwell

from the article....

bitkahuna

iTrader: (20)

Yup, i agree that $24 large for the ecoboost shelby pkg is nuts.

4TehNguyen

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overpriced package