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The 550-hp 2011 Shelby GT500 Sounds Like Goodness


So you say you've heard enough already about the 550-hp 2011 Ford Shelby GT500? What are you, a communist? Either way, you haven't actually heard the GT500.

Well now you have. Or rather, you've heard a recording of the nasty GT500 through what are, let's face it, probably pretty crappy speakers. Even so you get a sense of the rip and burble of the new exhaust system overlaid with the positively toddler-level whine of the supercharger.

It's worth making the jump just to see some poor sap driving the convertible 2011 GT500, top down, in the middle of a Michigan winter.

2010 Chicago Auto Show: 2011 Ford Shelby GT500

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5 Comments

RSdriver says:

08:28 AM, 02/ 9/10

Yeah, that poor sap gets to drive a gt500 for his day job, that's gotta be terrible...

cr_driver says:

09:38 AM, 02/ 9/10

Sounds like goodness indeed.
At least you dont hear only whinning all the time, thats good.

redliner says:

01:50 PM, 02/ 9/10

Sequential blinkers... hmmmm. Technically, FMVSS 108 has been interpreted as saying that sequential blinkers are not allowed. I wonder how ford managed to use them anyways.

greenpony says:

04:05 PM, 02/ 9/10

95% of the time I prefer the coupe body style. But damn, that is one nice looking convertible.

desmolicious says:

06:09 PM, 02/ 9/10

Yup that convertible looks sweet, all beefed up.
I wonder how good the new structural enhancements are. Can't wait for edmunds to test it..

p.s. love the supercharger whine with the V8 rumble.

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