Mustang,
a car known around the globe for style, performance and muscle, and it has been
that way for 50 years. How do you make a Mustang even better? You have Carroll
Shelby turn it into a Super Snake.
In
1967, Carroll Shelby took a Mustang and turned it into the original high-performance
Super Snake. And now to celebrate its 50th anniversary, Shelby is
back, taking the 2017 and doing it again. This time an 11 second quarter-mile
at a time. Following up the release of the Mustang GTE last year, Shelby and
Ford Performance unveiled a new striped variant of the American muscle car at
the Ford exhibit at the Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale auction the weekend of
January 21. Based on Shelby’s performance claims, the Super Snake can
outperform the Mustang Shelby GT350R in just about every way and remains both
street and track legal.
The
Super Snake begins as the already amazing Mustang GT with the 5.0-liter V-8,
which you can get in automatic or manual transmission. But it only gets better
from there, Shelby adds a supercharger and fine tuning, kick the horsepower up
to a cool 670 horsepower. Not enough horsepower? Pay a little extra for a
Whipple and Keene Bell supercharger and now the engine will generate 750
horsepower.
So just
how good are the Super Snakes performance numbers? Well, with an automatic transmission, normal
gas-station fuel, and Michelin street tires, the Super Snake with the optional
supercharger can do zero to 60 mph in 3.5 seconds, Shelby asserts, and hit 1.2
g on the skidpad. In our testing, the GT350R did zero to 60 mph in 3.9 seconds,
ran the quarter-mile in 12.5 seconds, and pulled 1.10 g on the skidpad.
So that’s
awesome, Shelby made the Super Snake super-fast, what else did they do? Shelby
upgraded a host of other features on the Mustang as well, the Super Snake has
new dampers, anti-roll bars, springs, and bushings. It also has black or
polished 20-inch forged aluminum wheels, six-piston Wilwood brake calipers in
the front and four-piston calipers in the rear, upgrade cooling for the brakes
and engine. And on the outside, the Super Snake has a new hood, front splitter,
grilles, rocker panels, rear spoiler, tail panel, rear diffuser, and lower rear
splitter. Shelby also added LED lights, and, most obviously, striping on the
top and sides with Shelby Super Snake branding.
Shelby will
only be making 500 on the Super Snake, so if you want one, you better hurry. With
the cost of the Mustang GT plus all the extra bells and whistles, the Super
Snake rings up at just under $80,000. So make sure to order you Super Snake early,
contact us now!
