Ford Mustang Shelby GT350 Heritage Edition 2020

A 12 months earlier than Ken Miles set lap statistics at Le Mans in Ford's famed GT40, the stated race automobile driving force and engineer made waves at the music withinside the first 1965 Mustang Shelby GT350 fastback coupe. Ford is celebrating this legacy fifty five years later with a brand new confined-version 2020 Mustang Shelby GT350 Heritage Edition Package.

Miles made Shelby GT350 an on the spotaneous legend while he drove it to victory at Green Valley Raceway in Texas on Feb. 14, 1965. Since then, the Shelby GT350 has been a Mustang icon.

For 2020, Ford is generating a confined run of Heritage Edition fastbacks completed in traditional Wimbledon White with Guardsman Blue aspect and over-the-pinnacle race stripes in a nod to the 1965 GT350 opposition version advanced through Carroll Shelby. 

The United States has sported blue and white as its assigned global racing colorings for the reason that 1950s. Additional Heritage Edition cues encompass the front and rear outdoors badges completed in Guardsman Blue and a completely unique sprint badge inside. GT350R fashions will function all-black seats with crimson accessory stitching.

"Looking again on it, what Ford and Carroll Shelby created again withinside the mid-'60s turned into so vital to Mustang," stated Jim Owens, Ford Mustang advertising manager. "With their proper outdoors livery, specific appointments and overall performance Ken may want to have best dreamed of, the Mustang Shelby GT350 and GT350R Heritage Edition Package automobiles are a significant tribute to the legacy of the Shelby brand."

The throwback Heritage Edition Package comes a 12 months after Shelby GT350 obtained a bunch of upgrades. These encompass revised the front chassis geometry for stepped forward steerage feel, plus revised antilock braking and MagneRide™ tuning for optimized aerodynamic additives ensuing in stepped forward ride, balance and coping with for each street and music. Shelby GT350R receives a redesigned high-path steerage knuckle leveraged from the all-new Shelby GT500 for 2020. It additionally capabilities a brand new steerage rack and recalibrated electric powered energy steerage control.

The 2020 Ford Mustang Shelby GT350 has a beginning MSRP of $60,440, plus taxes, title, transport and license fees; GT350R has a beginning MSRP of $73,435, plus taxes, title, transport and license fees. The Heritage Edition Package is to be had for $1,965. 

Dealers are taking orders for Heritage Edition Package automobiles now, with motors slated to deliver in spring 2020. Mustang Shelby GT350 and GT350R are proudly constructed with overseas and home components at Flat Rock Assembly Plant in Flat Rock, Michigan.