Those words come from Dave Pericak by way of Ford Authority, who rebaptized the director of Enterprise Product Line Management at Ford Icons as Pericack. “Could we do it? Sure. Is it something that would be durable over time? No. Nor would it handle the way it would need to handle, because you just don’t have the stiffness that you’d need,” he told the cited publication. Looking at the bigger picture, there are some things left unsaid.
For starters, hacking the roof off the Shelby GT500 wouldn’t be financially sound based on the sales figures of the supercharged V8-engined muscle car. Mustang deliveries in 2021 totaled 52,414 units in the United States, which is a drop in the bucket as opposed to the days of the S197. In 2007, the first year of the S197 Shelby GT500, deliveries totaled 134,626 units.
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