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Two hundred miles an hour used to be a number reserved for exotics, not something you ordered at a Ford dealership. Then SVT dropped a 5.8-liter supercharged V8 into the 2013 Mustang and produced 662 horsepower — the most powerful production V8 in the world at the time. It came with one transmission choice and a solid rear axle. Read on for how Ford made all of that work.
Evolution Performance built this Shelby GT500 to put down 2000 horsepower, and owner Brian Devilbiss spent an entire weekend proving the chassis can’t always keep up with that number — the front wheels came up again and again. A viewer who saw the car run live at Budd’s Creek says the in-person turbo sound didn’t come through on camera. Watch to see the passes where it actually stayed level, and the ones where it didn’t.