– Following our recent peek at the unique chassis of the new 2015/2016 Ford Mustang Shelby GT350 and GT350R, Ford Performance engineers finally popped the hood of their zesty new track rat for a closer look at its very special 5.2-liter, flat-plane-crankshaft V-8. That racy, high-revving engine—which we now know produces 526 horsepower at 7500 rpm and 429 lb-ft of torque at 4750 revs—is not only the centerpiece of Ford’s
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– If you’ve been paying, like, any attention at all, you know the Nissan GT-R LM NISMO is one weird racer. – It’s a front-engine, front-wheel-drive car competing against a field full of mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive racers in the Le Mans Prototype class—the segment that Audi has nearly completely dominated since it began racing at Le Mans in 2006. – But Nissan didn’t make all these unconventional choices at random. The
-It was only a matter of time. – After hitting the rev limiter at “only” 195 mph in a black supercharged 2015 Mustang GT with 717 horses, the folks at Hennessey Performance had one singular goal in mind: – The 200 mph barrier. – Clearly, the 717 horsepower provided by the tuner’s HPE700 kit wasn’t enough—never mind that the limitation seemed to be gearing, not power. Enter the HPE750 Supercharged
