The Ford Mustang Boss 302R started off the 2012 Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge season in the best way possible with the Roush Performance teams qualifying 1-2 at the season opener at Daytona Speedway. Shelby Blackstock, driving in only his second season for the Roush Performance team, put the No. 51 Starstruck Entertainment Boss 302R on pole with a time of 1:57.523, . This is the first time that Blackstock and fellow driver Jade Buford have captured the top qualifying position, and they will also be going for their first …

The Grand-Am season kicks off this week at Daytona, and we’ll be paying close attention to the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge to see if the Mustang Boss 302R can finally topple the BMWs. One in particular to watch is the No.61 Boss 302R of Roush Performance driven by Jack Roush Jr. and Billy Johnson who finished a close second this year. In addition to running at the front of the pack, the two will also likely stand out thanks to the new bodywork fitted to their car (Ford Racing …

The lucky guys over at Muscle Mustangs & Fast Fords have just published a new story on their inside access to the development of the 2013 Shelby GT500. We earlier showed you a similar story from Road & Track, but while that article focused mostly on the handling improvements developed on the Nürburgring, this story from MM&FF goes into detail about how Ford has made the 2013 Shelby GT500 even faster at the dragstrip.
Similar to our overview of the new supercharged 5.8-liter V8, MM&FF gives a nice overview of the …

The numbers are in, and Galpin Ford of Van Nuys, CA had laid claim to the highest volume Ford Mustang dealership in the country for 2011. Normally Galpin’s customizing shop, Galpin Auto Sports, is the one in the news, but the legendary Ford dealership also plays a major part in the Mustang industry. This past year Galpin sold a total of 663 Mustangs, which far exceeded the next closest dealership who managed to move just 269 Mustangs.
Galpin didn’t just lead the country in Mustang sales, though. They managed to hold …

The Mustang Boss 302 is no stranger to being compared to others on track, although generally the comparisons are done at race courses in the United States like Car and Driver’s recent “Lightning Lap” at Virginia International Raceway. The latest test, though, was done by German car magazine Sport Auto at the legendary Hockenheim circuit and the list of competitors included the likes of Ferrari, Aston Martin, Porsche, Mercedes and BMW.
While many might think the Boss 302 would be outclassed by cars two or three times its price, those familiar …

For those that have a Vortech or Paxton supercharger installed on their 2011+ Mustang GT, the two companies have announced a new 8-rib drive upgrade designed to prevent belt slippage for high-boost and racing applications. Part #4FQ116-001, the 8-rib drive upgrade allows for maximum belt traction and stability for racing and hard driving while remaining completely street ready and daily drive friendly. Drive conversion contains all necessary hardware and precision machined spacers to go right out of the box and onto the …

Car and Driver has just published their annual “Lightning Lap” competition, and this year the 2012 Ford Mustang Boss Laguna Seca was among the contenders. Needless to say, the Boss 302 did extremely well with a lap time of 3:02.8, finishing first in its class (cars priced from $30,000 to $59,999) and easily beating out the Dodge Challenger SRT8 392 (3:09.4), the Dodge Charger SRT8 (3:10.1), the BMW 335is (3:13.8), the Volkswagen Golf R (3:14.0) and the Mini Cooper JCW Coupe (3:18.4). The Boss 302 finished fourth overall in the …

The winner of the biggest sweepstakes prize ever in Hagerty Fantasy Bid history – a one-of-a-kind Ford Racing Champions Shelby GT500 Special Edition Mustang – was announced today after the last of the week’s 28 Fantasy Bid cars went over the block at the Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale auction. The lucky winner is Chris Cherryholmes of Tucson, Arizona, which is about 100 miles from the Scottsdale auction site, whose user name in the Fantasy Bidding was “Papcholmes.”
The ecstatic Cherryholmes, who calls himself a huge SPEED fan …

The fact that Alice Cooper owned this Mustang doesn’t really do anything for us, but we can really appreciate the fact that it’s a very clean 1965 Fastback. Just under 36,000 miles are on the odometer and was used by the rock star to occasionally go to dinner or to the golf course. In the end, the $51,700 price tag (after auction fees) is a pretty decent bargain for such a clean, low mileage Mustang. Plus, the new owners gets a set of golf clubs and a signed guitar.
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Last week we told you about this unique Shelby GT500 prototype that would be going up for auction. The car was used as a test vehicle to develop the 2013 Shelby GT500 and was driven at tracks like Sebring International Raceway and Ford’s Arizona proving grounds. Ford decided to put the car up for auction tonight at Barrett-Jackson, and generously donated the $300,000 to charity – the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. As a bonus, the new owner also has the rights to purchase the very first production 2013 Shelby GT500.
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