Yep, you read the headline right. The United States Postal Service may stop doing Saturday delivery service, but they won’t allow letters to go without cool stamps on them any longer. You can now have your choice between several different muscle car stamps which showcase raw, American horsepower. In a recent dedication ceremony at the [...]
The BBC car series Top Gear is rolling on for 2013 with another Top Gear Epic race across Europe in the BBC Top Gear Season 19 Episode 3 below. In this newest episode Jeremy Clarkson races Richard and James from London to Milan in a Shelby Mustang GT500. Of course both Richard and James are [...]
Shelby is moving into the future without good ol’ Carroll Shelby around with the 2013 Shelby Focus ST . Still, this little Focus ST was in the planning stages while he was alive – I think. What does this car offer over the already outrageous Ford Focus ST? As near as I can tell, suspension and visual [...]
The Shelby Daytona is one of the world’s most stunning and sexy race cars. In this exclusive TFLcar video we visit Superformace in Southern California to check our their version of this iconic car that was blessed and modified by Carroll Shelby himself. The Shelby Daytona Cobra Coupe is a pure race car that’s has [...]
The Shelby Cobra is perhaps the World’s most iconic and thus copied car. Less than 1000 original Ford AC Cobras were built by Carroll Shelby. Tens of Thousands of copies of the original 289 and 427 AC Cobras exist with most of them being “kit cars” copies. In this exclusive TFLcar video we visit Superformace [...]
The supercharged Shelby Durango high performance SUV – a good idea that was poorly executed or was it a great idea too early for its time? Perhaps, it was both. First, lets decode the name of this peculiar vehicle. It turns out that Carroll Shelby was not the original mastermind behind this truck. It was [...]
CHICAGO — The 2013 Ford Shelby GT500 convertible has a supercharged 5.8-liter V8 that makes 650 horsepower. The monster convertible 2013 Ford Shelby GT500 celebrates the 20th anniversary of Ford’s Special Vehicle Team. Ford engineers built the convertible GT500 to be just as sporty as the hardtop. With an astonishing 650 hp, not only is [...]
Read this very carefully: the 2013 Ford Mustang GT500 will have a 650 horsepower (yes – six hundred and fifty friggin’ horsepower) pumped through a supercharged, 5.8 liter V8. It will make 600 lbs-feet of torque and (please sit for this part… it will have a top speed of at least 200 miles per hour! No, [...]
Legendary champion racer/performance car builder Carroll Shelby first built affordable “Shelby GT350 Mustang” models, based on the then-new production Mustang, in 1965 and the car even beat Corvettes on tracks. A good GT350 is a prized collector’s item that costs at least several hundred thousand dollars. Shelby is still with us as of this writing, [...]
The 2011 Shelby Ford Mustang GT500 is one of the top ten fastest production cars in the world you can buy still from your neighborhood new car dealership. All you need is about 55K and a Ford dealership. That’s it! You don’t need to speak Italian or German and you certainly don’t need mortgage your [...]
Someone shoved an afterburner up this horse’s wazoo! I was told to never meet your heroes as the outcome is usually depressing and falls below your expectations. Bitterness usually follows and no matter how much the formally-idolized person has improved, you’ll never have the same high expectations again. The same can be said for driving [...]
Car or airplane? That's a question that many people still ask themselves when traveling. It takes four hours to drive from Boulder to Aspen, Colorado. It takes under a half hour to fly from Boulder to Aspen, Colorado, but when you figure the travel time to the airport, parking, going through security and the rest [...]
The 2011 Shelby Ford Mustang GT500 is one of the top ten fastest production cars in the world you can buy still from your neighborhood new car dealership. All you need is about 55K and a Ford dealership. That's it!
Thanks to MotorTrend we now know which is faster in a straight line…the Nissan GT-R or Shelby Mustang Super Snake? On paper the Super Snake should easily beat the Godzilla. But that's on paper and not on the pavement. Tokyo beware! Even in black and white the action is pretty fun. Just watch the video [...]
