The final Ford Mustang Bullitt has rolled off the meeting line on the Blue Oval’s Flat Rock, Michigan, plant. The Steve McQueen movie-inspired pony automotive just isn’t on the roster for 2021, so the ultimate automotive is a 2020 mannequin, coming off the heels of a two-year manufacturing run.
The ultimate run was confirmed by Mustang spokesperson Berj Alexanian to Ford Authority in an article printed yesterday. Development was accomplished someday late final 12 months.
The Mustang Bullitt started life in 2001 as a particular version of the SN95 Mustang GT. With a freer-breathing 4.6-liter V8 placing out 5 horsepower over the usual GT, an improved suspension with Tokico shocks and Cobra brakes, and Cragar-style wheels, it was constructed as a tribute to the 1968 movie “Bullitt.”
The film featured a Highland Inexperienced ’68 Fastback dueling with a same-year Dodge Charger in what’s extensively thought of one of many best automotive chase sequences of all time. McQueen performed Lt. Frank Bullitt of the San Francisco police, and the chase came about over the town’s many hilly streets, leading to spectacular jumps.
A second Bullitt version based mostly on the S197 chassis was inbuilt 2008-09. It got here with a 15-horsepower enhance, throatier exhaust, sportier suspension, and a GT500KR rear finish.
The third and ultimate Bullitt was unveiled on the 2018 Detroit Auto Present — subsequent to one of many authentic 1968 vehicles used within the film, a automotive that had been in hiding for many years. The homage had the most important horsepower achieve of the three, a 20-pony leap to 480. Distinctive instrumentation, upholstery stitching, and shift knob have been a part of the package deal.
All through the iterations, the one two colours supplied on Bullitt Mustangs have been Highland Inexperienced and black (apart from a Kona Blue one-off constructed for charity). For 2021, the Bullitt shall be changed with the Mach 1, which gives all the Bullitt’s essential upgrades however could have a larger vary of choices and colours.
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