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In late 2016, spy shots and a leaked mapping image convinced enthusiasts that Ford’s fiercest Mustang nameplate was coming back for 2017. It wasn’t — the real Shelby GT500 didn’t arrive until three years later, and when it did, it packed nearly 100 more horsepower than anyone was rumoring at the time. Here’s what actually happened between the rumor and the reveal, and why the wait ended up worth it.
Pony car purists have a firm opinion about rear-wheel-drive muscle cars in the snow: it doesn’t go well. The team at The Fast Lane Car put the all-wheel-drive Challenger GT up against a Mustang and Camaro on the same snowy pavement to settle whether Dodge’s unusual drivetrain choice actually held up. Watch the full comparison to see which pony car kept moving when the others couldn’t.
Audi’s R8 was already fast enough to embarrass supercars costing twice as much, which did not stop German tuner MTM from unveiling a 5-liter biturbo version at Geneva in 2011 and then spending two years making it substantially wilder. By 2013 the GT version was making 802 horsepower and running to 223 mph. Read on for what MTM changed, and why the chassis work mattered more than the engine.
Pagani built exactly sixteen examples of the 2009 Zonda R, each one wrapping a 750-horsepower AMG-sourced V12 in a chassis made from aircraft-grade aluminum, titanium, and magnesium. At roughly $750 per pound of curb weight, that works out to around $1.8 million for a car Pagani itself says only really belongs on a racetrack. Read on to find out what that kind of extremity actually buys.
A barn-find 1970 Ford Mustang convertible sitting in the Netherlands hides a genuinely strange secret: factory all-wheel drive, engineered by the same British company that later built the world’s first production AWD car, the Jensen FF. Missing its engine and front drive unit after decades of neglect, it may be the only convertible Mustang ever converted this way. Read on for how a tractor company ended up building AWD Mustangs for Ford.