I can imagine a scene in an office somewhere near Detroit: a photo is thumb-tacked to the face of a dartboard. The image: a Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat. 707 horsepower of “America, F- yeah!” that has been making a mockery of your home turf. You toss out history, you get the Hemi story on a loop. You toss out modern performance, your inbox is flooded with Mustang + Cars and Coffee videos. You’d be content making a track-worthy machine, except that one last slightly immature nerve won’t stop itching. The jokes are getting to you. The constant measuring contest of horsepower is getting to you.
And that’s when the dart is thrown, directly in the center of the picture. Goodnight, kitty cat. 
Meet the monster. It’s the 2020 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500. 760 horsepower from the 5.2L V8 that is almost the same as the one in the Shelby GT350, just without the flat-plane crank setup. Don’t worry, it’ll still rev to 7,500 RPM and the Eaton blower will cram as much air as need be into the cylinders. A Tremec-designed seven-speed dual-clutch automatic. An independent rear, a first for the GT500. 3.3 seconds to sixty miles an hour. Quarter-mile times that have tickled the mid-10 second range in the right conditions, the worst of the ones we’ve seen so far are in the low-eleven range. It has MagnaRide suspension. It has a handling pack as an option. It’s got loud, clanking ones and it’s aiming straight at Ma Mopar’s blunt-force beauty.
If Ol’ Shel himself could’ve seen this…he’d be smiling so hard that you’d wonder if he went as insane as his car did. God have mercy on us the first time we get a crack behind the wheel of one of these monsters.
Nice car and about time!
Would be nice to see a Cobra Jet variant in the future.
I think that the bigger question would be can it leave a Cars and Coffee event without taking out a bunch of spectators?
Good time to be a car guy! Even if I can’t afford one of these high powered monsters.
Enjoy these days – they won’t last forever!