First GT500 production body spotted

[MaddNomad]

There are NO RUMORS of a AWD/5.2/hybrid people are just making up anything for clicks.

It reminds me of the mopar YouTubers who throw a bunch of stuff at the wall and tries to see what sticks. lol.

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[DeluxeStang]

I should have taken pictures of the car it's identical to the one in all the spy photos!!

Was the camouflaged prototype you saw white and black with bits of lime green? If so, that's the RTR Ecoboost prototype. I've watched a couple of vids, that's the only prototype mule there. The mule recently spied wasn't at the show.

I firmly believe when you were talking to the Ford rep, and were talking about mustang prototypes, their brain heard mustang prototype and discussed the RTR prototype which was at the show. This would also explain why they were able to give you details on it because it was already revealed earlier this year.

No harm, no foul, just seems like an honest case of miscommunication which is no big deal. But I just want to clear this up for anyone who might be confused.

 

[DeluxeStang]

People like to write off of each other...
'First guy: there is this old hybrid concept from almost 10 years ago and there is a new Mustang GT500 successor in the pipeline...
Second guy: new GT500 coming, I could imagine they pair it with the hybrid concept...
Third guy: my sources have told me that there will be a new GT500 with hybrid tech and AWD...'

Exactly, where there's smoke, there's usually fire. Nothing is confirmed of course, but multiple people are coming over 900 hp, and now AWD hybrid. It just makes a lot of sense. Ford seems to be working a lot harder to differentiate mustang variants. They already have a GT 350/ Mach 1 replacement with the dark horse, and the ultimate track weapon with the GTD. Adding a third track focused mustang might be pushing it.

So what do you do? Make a mustang variant that's designed to be the ultimate straight line car. How do you do that? Give it a ton of power, but also make it really efficient at putting that power to the ground.

That's where a AWD hybrid setup really comes in handy. Ford is basically at the same place GM was in with the c7 ZR1, basically reaching the limit of usable power in a front engine, RWD coupe. Going mid-engine, or AWD is the next logical major step if they want to keep upping the level of performance.

 

[Epiphany]

Take this with a grain of salt, but he was told it'll pair the 5.2 with an AWD hybrid setup with a total output of around 900 hp.

5.2 V8, and hybrid, and AWD...a 4600lb+ Mustang is just what everyone wants.

 

[Danee]

The hood has a lot of padding.

 

[Bikeman315]

5.2 V8, and hybrid, and AWD...a 4600lb+ Mustang is just what everyone wants.

Well two out of three could be pretty awesome. Unfortunately that means the 5.2 could be out. I know, I know, heresy. But the GT did pretty good with an Ecoboost.

 

[Upacurb]

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Seriously though.....

Its going to be the same formula as the GT500 I think.....

Wider front fenders
Supercharged 5.2 DCT
all sorts of suspension goodies (tweaked GT500 set up)

Slight performance improvements over the GT500- I think acceleration times will be traction limited just like the S550 GT500 (but I do think it will make more hp then the GT500)

Of course this is not a bad thing at all- the GT500 was a hell of a car - I would not be mad at all if they just created a slightly tweaked version of it for the S650...

Given a loaded Dark Horse is 90K - I could see just a tweaked GT500 version when fully loaded hitting 115-120K.....start adding in a bunch of exotic suspension stuff and I think it will push the price up too high - just my guess....

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