Ford is the first major automaker to introduce carbon fiber wheels as standard equipment on Shelby GT350R Mustang.
The latest version of the famous Shelby Mustang nameplates – an all-new Shelby GT350R came off the line today at Ford’s Flat Rock Assembly Plant in Michigan. The new GT350R Mustang is billed as the most athletic Mustang ever, designed for hearty driving on the world’s most challenging roads and racetracks.
“This is a special day for all Mustang enthusiasts,” said Bill Ford, executive chairman, Ford Motor Company. “We have taken the GT350 formula to the next level of innovation, style and performance. Today the legend continues.”
The Shelby GT350R is unquestionably the most track-ready road-going production Mustang ever built. In 1965, Ford and Carroll Shelby developed a road-racing version of the popular Ford Mustang – the Shelby GT350 Competition model. Lighter, more powerful with a highly developed suspension, the new Shelby GT35R is destined to be a memorable racing Mustang.
Arriving later this year, the new Shelby GT350R has the first production V8 from Ford with a flat-plane crankshaft – the most powerful naturally aspirated engine Ford has ever produced – plus a specially tuned suspension. It is fitted with revised spring rates and anti-roll bars, lower ride height, unique track-tuned alignment settings, revised bushings and jounce bumpers, cross-axis ball joints in the front suspension, and revised calibration controlling the MagneRide dampers.
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