Is there any more news about the N-ring edition of the GT500 ? I would so very much like to have a GT500 with the image of the N-ring on the back of the GT500.

 

There won't be one.

 

Overboost, just wondering if you have any information on any changes to the Rear end on the 13+ model years? You seem to be the one to ask...Thank you...

 

Overboost, how can you be so certain there will not be an N-ring edition of the GT500 ? It sure appears Ford was hinting at an N-ring edition by taking a GT500 with a map of Nurburgring on the back to Nurburgring where it would be photographed.

 

that sticker looks haphazardly stuck on... probably just a gag some engineer bought in the gift shop

 

This:
Just poking some fun at the Laguna Seca...

I'm going to take my Mustang to Mid-Ohio, put a sticker on the back, and steal an M-plate, then have someone take spy shots, and we'll convince the masses that they're making a "Mustang GT Mid-Ohio" version...

 

Yeah, there seems to be some sibling rivalry between Team Mustang and SVT. Only positive things can come of it though.

 

"... what's behind me, is not my problem..."
- Raul Julia

 

The SVT team was there for 2 weeks, the cars are probably now in Aachen in the Ford engine test room for "dry test runs". Main purpose was aside rather the PTWA coating test in the new engines under road conditions. As you may know the blocks are made in Germany by Honsel/now ZF.
The stickers are just very popular at the Ring and in my view don't indicate a Ring version anyway. As far as I remember you get a sticker, when buying your tickets for individual runs and the last time I was allowed to join them, the Ford people bought as well "tourist" tickets for 10 runs.

 

GM always hypes up their products that were developed and tested at N-ring. I would think Ford could trump them by bringing out an N-ring edition of the GT500. There is no more famous road coarse that is so prestiges and known around the world.

 

Let it go dude, it isn't going to happen.

 

A "Le Mans" Edition may sound much better.
Replace the body style in this back then staged pic with a Roush sourced prototype et voila.

 

Le Mans is known for having races for race cars. The Ring is currently being used by automobile manufactures to test and tune their production cars and bench mark their high performance cars against their competition. To have an N-ring special addition would be so easy for Ford to do. All they would have to do is put some decals on the GT500 and sell it with the X-brace from the Boss and offer it with the PP suspension package. They could even put the winglets on the front end.
Le Mans was already offered by Pontiac, so that would not fly.

 

I'd love to see another Cobra R before the '15 redesign. I think they could really send the first 50 years out with a bang with an all-out SVT model.

 

That would be the Boss 302 LS, if Ford can fulfill its TracKey promise.

 

Not quite. It has some of the track car features that the older Cobra R's had, but it doesn't have the massive power jump that they were known for. It's the closest thing we've seen recently.

 

Sounds like as good a reason as any to make a 5.8L Roadrunner, although I dont think Ford would call it a Cobra.