Saturday 28th January 2017

New Shelby Mustang Super Snake announced

670hp, a quarter-mile in 10.9 seconds and $70K - make America V8 again!

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It's now 50 years since the late Carroll Shelby first created a Super Snake Mustang, an occasion that's being marked by Shelby in typically modest and restrained fashion... This is the 2017 Super Snake, in all its stripy, loud, 670hp glory.

Super Snake siblings!

Essentially this new car adds a supercharger to the 5.0-lite Coyote V8, presumably a gigantic one given it's adding another 250hp and no further modifications are mentioned. That being said, more power is on offer through larger Whipple or Kenne Bell 'chargers - 750hp anyone?

Shelby claims a Super Snake on US fuel and Michelin Pilot Super Sports hits 60mph in 3.5 seconds and crosses the quarter mile in 10.9 seconds, though a terminal speed has not been released. It also does corners too, with a 1.2g peak suggested.

The Super Snake package also includes new 20-inch forged wheels, Shelby dampers, spring and anti-roll bars, uprated Wilwood brake calipers and the Shelby body kit. Apparently every body part was designed in CAD and "taken through an OEM process" for the build. And while you can delete the body stripe if you wish, the side stripes absolutely must stay. In addition buyers can also option on a range of track focused options, including a Shelby 'extreme cooling package', a short shift kit, adjustable suspension, a roll bar to mount harnesses on and a rear seat delete.

670hp standard, 750hp optional...

"We fine-tuned our processes and materials to offer an agile, nimble and balanced car at a lower cost", said Shelby's Vice President of Operations Vince LaViolette, "It delivers full-throttle excitement at every turn, all wrapped in a chiseled, handsome body." Just the thing if your best mate has a Hellcat, right?

The standard Super Snake package costs $36,795 if you already own a Mustang, or $69,995 all in including a new car. Of course you could have a manual too if ordering from new, and in theory a convertible is possible too...

[cib24]

Sweet. Looks much higher quality than what you would expect from Roush or Saleen, almost Ford OEM actually.

[Yipper]

Great name. Great car.

[lukelovescars]

More power (optional) than a Lambo AV!

[stuart-b]

Hmm, yes please!

[Matt p]

Take my money!.

[5ohmustang]

Power level is odd. The last s197 Supersnake was 750 and 850 bhp.

[dvs_dave]

If/when the new TVR materialises, I wonder how long it'll be before they offer a bonkers 1200kg hyper car humbling 750hp version using these bits?

[rtz62]

Great machine, but we all know that IF we manage to get our grubby mitts on one here in the UK, that $69k price will become £105k here...

[Matt Harper]

5ohmustang said:

Power level is odd. The last s197 Supersnake was 750 and 850 bhp.

That's not the only thing that's odd. $37k on top of the standard car for a blower that costs $6K, brakes about $5k an exhaust that's $2k max, handling package - less than $1k and some plastic body parts and snazzy floor mats.
Interesting to see this hidden in the small print also: "Equipment may void factory powertrain warranty".

[anonymous-user]

A bargain in the US. I'd personally delete the stripes and 'CAD' bodykit though.

[Matt UK]

I just wish I could like the nose of this generation mustang...

[AndySheff]

Matt Harper said:

5ohmustang said:

Power level is odd. The last s197 Supersnake was 750 and 850 bhp.

That's not the only thing that's odd. $37k on top of the standard car for a blower that costs $6K, brakes about $5k an exhaust that's $2k max, handling package - less than $1k and some plastic body parts and snazzy floor mats.
Interesting to see this hidden in the small print also: "Equipment may void factory powertrain warranty".

Yeah seems odd also, since the S197 Shelbys were sold new as Shelbys and warranted as a new Ford. Or am I thinking of the GT500 and not the Supersnake ?

And as for the poster above - re Roush and Saleen modded cars. As far as I know Roush and Saleen Mustangs have good quality mods. The 427R S197 I had was brilliant.

[5ohmustang]

The s197 gt500 was warrantied through ford as it was a Ford product with the shelby license. It was not built by Shelby. They had the 5.4 and 5.8 Trinity engine.

Shelby did make s197 mustangs, the gt350 was one of them which had the coyote motor at 625bhp. I'm pretty sure if you can customer order at Shelby to have it tuned to whatever spec.

Like this.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/262820537918

There's plenty of 1000 bhp coyotes running the streets. As Matt said, it is overpriced and you could build it yourself a lot cheaper, however the Supersnake will hold it's value.

[5ohmustang]

Matt UK said:

I just wish I could like the nose of this generation mustang...

And it's getting worse on the 2018.


This any better?

[anonymous-user]

Impressive... Until you realize the likes of Lebanonford have been doing 700BHP+ Mustangs for $40k for the best part of a year now. With Warranty.

http://www.lebanonford.com/the-727-hp-mustang.htm

$30,000 buys a lot of Snake badges and CAD bodykits...

[anonymous-user]

279 said:

Impressive... Until you realize the likes of Lebanonford have been doing 700BHP+ Mustangs for $40k for the best part of a year now. With Warranty.

http://www.lebanonford.com/the-727-hp-mustang.htm

$30,000 buys a lot of Snake badges and CAD bodykits...

Unbelievable. In reality are they just bolting a huge blower on? It seems too good to be true?

[jason900]

yes - just yes.

[C7 JFW]

PHWOAR!!!!!

Still going to buy a used RS6/M5 though.

[sh33n]

No thanks. Looks horrible, the standard car is far better looking. The seats look horribly cheap (sure the price isn't) and that gauge looks a bit, kids in civics bolted on.

I doubt we'll get it over here anyway, a GT350 would certainly be worth a look if it came over here, but this, the yanks can keep and we'll all stick (well most of us) to the usual German offerings.

[Blackpuddin]

Think they've got enough Shelby product identifiers on there? I started counting but lost heart.