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Ford SVT Chief Engineer Jamal Hameedi takes Fox Car Report's Gary Gastelu inside the 650 hp Mustang Shelby GT500 convertible at the 2012 Chicago Auto ...
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You know twenty years ago if you were looking for performance here at the Chicago Auto Show you would founded in this.
Ford SBC.
Cobra mustang.
The first product from -- -- performance division now celebrating its twentieth anniversary with this the new show become over GT 500.
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- You guys really have lost it and -- it's is so cool 650 horsepower.
600 what counts toward no -- This hinges and exhaust is going to be just in -- year.
With this convertible it's.
And I mean the car it is three seconds -- -- pastor outgoing.
So that just.
Shows that the comfortable as much faster -- -- going to.
-- -- -- how far we've really gone.
But you have to pop and others it's an -- -- gadget but -- goes into this thing just -- it up a GT right.
Absolutely I mean we started with.
You know we started with the -- But it it turned into so much more than.
It went into upgrading the -- its mission -- drives that axle the suspension.
The brakes.
Locally.
So really the aerodynamics.
So.
Really nothing.
Has been left turn.
Make this car balance complete that.
SBT.
Special performance division within the Ford.
Empire.
You guys work -- -- your own little skunk works -- -- you're -- -- fool around and come up -- stuff and then after the -- bring -- to manager do you have to -- all the -- for viewers -- thing that we let us do that.
Well we we do operate pretty autonomously.
But we're you know.
From an engineering standpoint we engineer with the same standards that.
That the rest of Ford operates two.
You know and we have to make good business case for projects to so.
It's it's a challenge to make it exciting and to -- you -- business case.
We we managed to find sweet spot.
-- -- quite the way through maybe three model does amazing isn't it 235 horsepower does not back then it was a -- all the way.
And now 600.
Hours and I know -- lot of guys you by Shelby's now they'll team up to 655000.
Or presently.
Have you reached the limit here or there is a possible that as patriotism but even wilder than this day.
If we ever uttered the words we have reached the -- the -- -- -- -- Google because that's that's just.
-- -- We always.
We can always go for.
