 Santa Fe, how are you? There she is. What is up you guys? Welcome back to another one. If you are new to the channel, I am Gold Penny. I'm driving Stengasaurus. Let me just cut to the point. Couple days ago, at least at the time of me filming this video, Ford dropped another little hint about the 2020 Shelby GT500 being unveiled January 14th. More than likely at a nice little place called Detroit. And so as a Mustang owner, this was definitely exciting. So since I have been following all the little news releases that continuously be coming out about the GT500, I figured I'd make a little video on everything we know at this point about the 2020 Shelby GT500. Let's get started. And so let me start with there are a lot of things to be excited about with the 2020 GT500 including a possible unexpected partnership. 700 plus horsepower and of course the most powerful street legal Mustang that has ever been produced in Ford's history. So the question I keep coming back to really is because there hasn't been many hints dropped about it. What is the price going to be? I will give you my estimate at the end of this video but let me first start with a quick little background. In the last GT500 that was made, it put out 662 horsepower and it was the most powerful car out at that time until the Hellcat came around shortly after. But in all the recent news releases Ford is now saying that this Shelby GT500 is going to pack more than 700 horsepower and in most recent article I was reading 720 possibly to be exact. This power is going to be made by a 5.2 liter V8 with more than likely a 2.65 liter eaten supercharger running at 12 psi. All this information by the way is coming from leaked documents so to speak so who knows about the credibility but my curiosity is I've seen it go both ways about that V8. Is it going to be a cross-plane crank V8 or a flat-plane crank V8 just like the Shelby GT350? So that is one mystery that has yet to be unveiled and of course we have all heard the saying at this point that Venom kills demons. So I of course am curious what exactly that saying means because it is looking like at this point that the GT500 is not going to be as powerful as the demon. However we do know that Dodge tends to carry a little bit more weight than the Mustang. In this case probably at least 250 pounds over the Mustang so because of that weight savings maybe the GT500 is going to be faster overall when it comes to things like the quarter mile or track times perhaps. Another thing that leads me to believe that the GT500 may be faster than the demon is there have been a couple spy shots that have surfaced of the GT500 with a roll cage and so then you have to ask yourself why in the world would the GT500 be riding around with a roll cage unless it was perhaps testing at the drag strip and we all know if a car runs the quarter mile in under 10 seconds they are required to have a roll cage therefore it may very well be a 9 second car on the drag strip again that indicates that Venom may very well kill demons and then to go along with that to make a 9 second car is it even possible to do 9 seconds in the quarter mile in a factory car with a manual transmission anymore because we all know that the Dodge Demon does not come with a manual transmission so that makes me think of course that the GT500 will come standard with an automatic or at least have an optional transmission with some sort of automatic rumor has it however that is actually going to be a DCT or dual clutch transmission and although I will say if they ended up using a perhaps beefed up version of the 10R80 that definitely wouldn't be all that bad either and I can say that because I do have the 10R80 in my Mustang GT here and it most definitely does shift pretty insanely quick so I have no issues there however when people start talking about the DCT specifically in some of these spy videos that people have taken with the GT500 on the street rumor has it that the DCT sounds awfully similar to Porsche's PDK dual clutch transmission and this is where that rumor of the unexpected partnership comes in specifically with Porsche because as you guys know with the 10R80 Ford had teamed up with Chevy which does seem like a more likely partnership however did Ford actually team up with Porsche to create a dual clutch transmission for the GT500 in my opinion no here's why I think that they did not because when the 10R80 transmission came out Ford had put actually on their website that it was faster than the PDK so my thoughts are why would Ford bother boasting about their transmission or even comparing it to the PDK telling us all that it is better than the PDK if they were only going to team up with Porsche later in the game so it kind of sounds like hey you suck by the way can we be friends so I really don't think that that is going to happen but the rumors out there so wouldn't mention it in my personal opinion I think Tremac is going to probably be doing the DCT along with possibly a six-speed manual option as well because we do know that Tremac did the six-speed manual in the GT350 and that has turned out just fine so when it comes to transmissions I do think that Ford has a special partnership with Tremac and there are more than likely going to be the ones that put down the transmission in one way or another but next thing I wanted to mention I keep mentioning the drag capabilities possibly of the GT500 however I do think this is going to one up let's say the demon in this case because I think it is going to be a very track worthy car as well and the reason I say this is because last July I do remember a photo surfacing of the GT500 rolling around Detroit with a Porsche 911 GT3 and for those of you guys who don't know that is essentially a race car built for the street which leads me to believe they are using the GT3 as a benchmark for the GT500 however I'm not sure they are going to hit that benchmark because that supercharger of course is probably going to add a little bit of weight to the front end of the GT500 however the fact that Ford is possibly trying to use the GT3 as a benchmark for the GT500 I gotta say it's pretty exciting and it kind of makes you wonder who exactly is Ford targeting with the GT500 not that the GT500 needs to target anybody because it has a good enough name itself to hold its own ground but if you are considering buying the GT500 are you therefore also considering a ZO1 or a demon because there is quite a substantial price difference between the two the ZO1 comes in approximately $61,000 the demon comes in at approximately $85,000 so $24,000 $25,000 difference there that is pretty substantial to where exactly is the GT500 going to fit in and here it is my guess on the pricing at least GT350 comes in at right around $55,000 again the ZO1 is $61,500 so I honestly am thinking that the GT500 is going to come in right at around $70,000 probably a little above that I don't think it's going to be as expensive as the demon that is a much bigger car with more horsepower typically Ford tends to price their vehicles less than Dodge does anyways however it is a more special car than the ZO1 so that is why I think it's going to come in right in the middle of those two honestly but having said that at the same time we all know what Ford did with the GT350 you know what Honda dealerships did with the Civic Type R and we know that Ford has promised limited production numbers of the GT500 so I think you guys know what I'm going to say next although MSRP may be listed at around $70,000 I have a feeling dealerships are probably going to be doing what they call a market adjustment price so it is going to be priced up from that I have a feeling unless you know somebody or unless you work in a Ford dealership you can probably expect a little market adjustment when it comes to the GT500 at least when they first come out but so then continuing on to the exterior a little bit on this one because there has been a ton of carbon fiber that I have been seeing on the leaked images of the GT500 including of course the wing and we all know the GT350 had carbon fiber wheels so that is a possibility as well also from the pictures it looks like there's carbon fiber on the mirrors there's carbon fiber hood vents possibly and also a splitter diffuser and ultimately all of this carbon fiber again is going to make it way much less than a demon and this is going to be good for the drag strip and a circuit track as well and when you add all of this together the rumor is top speed is going to commit at approximately 214 miles per hour and this particular number came from a leaked GT500 repair document so for Ford mechanics they gave a little bit of information including that top speed number we'll see if it actually is true or not but we do know the last GT500 had a top speed of 200 miles per hour so I at least would expect top speed to be higher than that but either way once you get over 200 miles per hour you are in supercar territory there and that is pretty exciting and then just to touch on a little bit on the interior I do believe it is definitely going to have a very unique interior specific to the GT500 definitely different than the GT350 and the Mustang of course I believe it will have a unique dash plaque just like the GT350 there's probably going to be Alcantara everywhere I'm hoping for an Alcantara headliner as well as some accents on the doors and seating and ultimately if the GT500 did not come standard with a roll cage I do believe it will at least be pre-cut hoping it will at least be pre-cut for a roll cage because if you get the GT500 it would only make sense to have one or the other since it is essentially a race car and you can't race it without having that roll cage so I would expect that as well so ultimately you guys that is just about everything that I personally at least know about the GT500 at this point again January 14th is the date that you were going to want to tune into that is when Ford is teasing the official release is going to happen the car is actually set to be a 2020 model so therefore it is going to probably come out in the fall of 2019 so be sure to start saving up again my guess is around $70,000 probably a little more than that probably a good bit more than that when it comes to dealer adjustments but we'll see so in the end I am excited about the GT500 so therefore wanted to do this video but that is about it for this one 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