“With great power comes great responsibility,” that old comic book saying, also applies to drag racing. This Fox Body Mustang has a bit too much of the power, and not enough responsibility in applying that power.
The Detroit Auto Show rolled around, and there she was: the all-new 2016 GT. Except it seems like Ford built the wrong car. She had the right looks, but all the wrong guts. Especially since the GT350 has the greatest collection of racecar parts imaginable.
Even given the menacing exhaust notes on the new Z06 and the Challenger Hellcat, you still wouldn’t expect the Shelby GT500 to get drowned out so badly by its fellow Americans.
The latest bit of good Mustang news includes a sales increase of 36.1 percent in March, compared to the same month the year before. All of which accounts for a total of 12,663 new 2015 Mustangs sold.
Hitting 200 miles per hour back in the 1990s was a lofty goal. Nevertheless, Car Craft magazine wanted to reach the double-century mark back in the age of pogs and grunge music – and it was hell-bent on using a 1993 Ford Mustang Cobra to do it.
What would happen if you put one of those Tesla electric motors into something with a bit more nostalgia, like perhaps a 1968 Ford Mustang Fastback? Well, you’d get the Zombie 222.