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2020 Ford Shelby Mustang GT500 sounds filthy

The Blue Oval's Detroit Auto Show star gets raw and uncensored.

Chris Paukert Former executive editor / Cars
Following stints in TV news production and as a record company publicist, Chris spent most of his career in automotive publishing. Mentored by Automobile Magazine founder David E. Davis Jr., Paukert succeeded Davis as editor-in-chief of Winding Road, a pioneering e-mag, before serving as Autoblog's executive editor from 2008 to 2015. Chris is a Webby and Telly award-winning video producer and has served on the jury of the North American Car and Truck of the Year awards. He joined the CNET team in 2015, bringing a small cache of odd, underappreciated cars with him.
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The 2020 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 looks like a track and street terror just sitting on the floor of the Detroit Auto Show. Unfortunately, most of the 700+ horsepower muscle car's performance will sadly go unexplored by owners on a daily basis, if only out of fear for their licenses. 

What will be shown off in spades is the way the car looks in motion, and the way the roar of its supercharged V8 ricochets off of buildings and tunnels. 

Watch this: 2020 Ford Mustang GT500: See and hear the 700+ hp track-ready beast

Ford says it hasn't quite finalized tuning of this hottest-ever Mustang powertrain just yet (hence no finalized horsepower and torque numbers), so the sound of the cross-plane-crank engine, the 2.65-liter Eaton supercharger's whine and the quad-outlet exhausts may change somewhat before the pony car becomes available this fall. That said, this video gives us a very good indication of just how low-down and angry the Shelby GT500 will sound when the first buyers get their mitts on it. 

Can't get enough? If you missed our deep dive and in-depth studio video on the 2020 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500, be sure to check it out, plus our show-floor walk-around with Roadshow editors Emme Hall and Antuan Goodwin. You can also see all of our favorite Detroit Auto Show debuts here.

2020 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 is a friendlier brawler

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