2018 Mustang Gt Review Car And Driver

The ford mustang shelby gt350 wears a 53 year old name yet remains the zenith of the muscle car by delivering as much grip and grace as grunt.

2018 mustang gt review car and driver. We just wrapped up a 40 000 mile long term relationship with a 2016 5 0 liter gt and for the most part it was a. At the peak of the storied mustang lineup is the all new shelby gt500 the most powerful street legal ford vehicle of all time it combines a supercharged 5 2 liter v8 engine and a tremec 7 speed transmission for awe inspiring power. So the facelifted 2018. Porsche s mid engined cayman turns 13 this year but.

Let the bellowing gt run free and it will pull to 7 000 rpm arriving at 60 mph in 4 3 swift seconds according to car and driver. The arrival of the 2016 gt350 made the mustang gt the middle child of the family overnight. The six speed manual gt test car felt like it couldn t. Car and driver recently did instrumented testing on a manual transmission 2018 mustang gt performance package and saw a best quarter mile result of 12 6 seconds at 115 mph.

We praised doted on and rewarded the gt350 giving it two 10best cars. Here s what we thought of the ford s updated mustang gt during our first drive. Its stoplight racing smoke em if you got em attitude begs for three pedals of driver involvement and a. Ford claims that the mustang gt is now capable of sub four second lunges to 60 mph when equipped with the new for 2018 10 speed automatic.

The 2018 ford mustang continues to offer a v 8 rear wheel drive two doors and a manual transmission. From the february 2018 issue. The double overhead cam v 8 in the gt feels a tad soft at low rpm but comes on in a fierce fender lifting rush shoving driver and passenger into their seats.