Ford Slaps a Top-Speed Governor on the Most Powerful Mustang Shelby GT500 to Date

The Shelby GT500 will deliver the goods in corners, not just a straight line.

  • The 2020 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 will be Ford’s most powerful production car ever, but the automaker has been light on details about the forthcoming car.
  • We expect Ford’s zero-to-6o-mph and quarter-mile claims to prove true, but we were taken aback by the information that the GT500 will have a governed top speed.
  • The GT500 goes on sale this summer.

Dearborn is still mum on nearly every critical specification of its new GT500other than these: it is Mustang based. It will feature a supercharged 5.2-liter V-8 cranking out at least 700 horsepower. And now, that this, the most powerful production car Ford has ever created, is governed to 180 mph.

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