SEMA: Ford’s Mustang FR500S Offers Entry Level Racing Thrills
WINDING ROAD readers with racing aspirations take heart; the Mustang FR500S has been unleashed for public consumption.
The FR500S from Ford racing is at the heart of an all-new Mustang spec series sponsored by the automaker and Miller, and aimed at providing a slightly less than trust fund required price point for potential racers. The Mustang is built on the production line at Flat Rock, MI and revolves around the hearty 4.6-liter V-8 producing 325 horsepower. Expect the FR500S to go on sale for the quasi-reasonable sum of $75,000.
Calling the new ‘Stang a bargain might be stretching it for some, but as a track ready car that Ford calls, “durable, reliable and competitive
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Jonathan Fung [Gotakon]
75k is sort of steep. That's almost as much as a Viper, and more than a Z06. For the money, I'd rather have the Z06. This Mustang doesn't look that great anyway. Many of the Roush models look more attractive.
Clint
This price does strike me as (somewhat) reasonable. This is a real race car for driving on a track, not just a faster Mustang street car. By the time you bought a regular Mustang, stripped out the interior and accessories, did all the necessary work to redo the fuel line, suspension, wheels, tires, engine, exhaust, and tie-downs for track work, not to mention dropping in a proven race engine and welding in a roll cage, you'd reach somewhere close to $75,000 in parts and time/labor. Building a race car (even a Spec Miata that's nearly twenty years old) is never cheap.
I applaud Ford for supporting amateur racing, as NASCAR has turned into its own animal, and doesn't really help the manufactures sell their cars in the same way it did when stock cars were actually stock cars.
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