There was sure to be one thing particular to be birthed out of Shelby American to rejoice its sixtieth anniversary in 2022, and that particular factor is the 2022 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500KR.
The brand new Shelby GT500KR is poised to stay as much as its identify when it was first launched in 1968 because the King of the Street powered by a 428 Cobra Jet V8 with an impressive-for-its-time 335 horsepower. At the moment, the Shelby GT500KR continues with a practice of being essentially the most highly effective pony you should purchase having 900 horsepower from its supercharged V8 due to a 3.8-liter Whipple supercharger – and you’ll outfit your present Shelby GT500 to have the GT500KR therapy for a value!
With the present Shelby GT500 already having 760 horsepower, there’s a superb basis for the GT500KR to construct off in lots of areas, such because the platform’s suspension the place the GT500KR provides Ford Efficiency entrance and rear sway bars together with recalibrated MagneRide dampers and ride-height-adjustable springs throughout. Along with the bigger supercharger, there’s a high-volume intercooler, warmth exchanger, chilly air consumption, and a Borla exhaust system.
Within the appears division, which serves many performance functions, the Shelby GT500KR will get 20-inch wheels that come polished or completed in gloss black and are fitted with prolonged wheel studs. There are many carbon fiber bits together with the hood, entrance splitter, rear diffuser, and Gurney flap fitted to the rear spoiler. The vents are all purposeful and it will get Billet caps all through the engine bay and the right sixtieth anniversary badging with Shelby rocker panel stripes, embroidered leather-based seats and flooring mats, painted stripes, an non-compulsory rear-seat delete, and better of all, a widebody package.
The 2022 Shelby GT500KR will likely be restricted to 225 automobiles the place 40 of these go to the worldwide market or you may outfit your present GT500 (as much as 60 per mannequin 12 months from 2020 to 2022 can have the choice to outfit their GT500 with the GT500KR spec package deal). The beginning value is about at $127,895 for the whole new car (as much as 60 new models from the manufacturing facility) or you may spend $54,995 to outfit your present 2020-2022 GT500 with the package deal. Orders open on February 1, 2022, and manufacturing begins throughout the first quarter of 2022 simply in time for the primary manufacturing GT500KR to be auctioned off at Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale, Arizona on January 29, 2022.
