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Hennessey Makes the Ford Mustang Great Again, 1,000-HP Car Can't Stop Whining About It

The 1,000-horsepower barrier was once reserved for the finest vehicles offered by the automotive world. One particular word comes to mind when thinking about it, and that’s the Veyron, Bugatti’s original modern-day hypercar, but since it came out in the mid-2000s, such beasts have become more common.
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We’ve seen some of them at different drag racing events hosted all over the world, and more often than not, they bear the signature of a famous tuner. The Ford Mustang that you are about to see in the video embedded at the bottom of the page, in a so-called ‘test drive’ that’s not quite what it claims to be, was significantly upgraded by Hennessey.

Filmed at the Pennzoil Proving Grounds, with the Lone Star State company’s director of R&D Jason Haynes behind the wheel, the muscle car is not your run-of-the-mill GT. It is actually in the range-topping flavor that the Blue Oval calls the Mustang Shelby GT500, a havoc-wreaking model with 760 hp and 625 lb-ft (847 Nm) of torque on tap. The supercharged 5.2-liter V8 rockets it to 60 mph (97 kph) in 3 seconds, and on a good day, it is a 10-second car.

With Hennessey’s upgrades, however, which retain the factory supercharger, albeit with some aftermarket trickery, joined by various other tuned and new internals, as well as all sorts of calibrations that include the transmission too, it sits in a superior league. That’s because the grey example, with black stripes, which features the automaker’s Carbon Package, has no less than 1,000 hp at 7,000 rpm and 850 lb-ft (1,152 Nm) at 4,800 rpm when running on E85. With 93-octane pump gas in the tank, the output drops to 900 hp.

That is definitely more thrust than anyone would ever need in what is still a Mustang, sprinkled with the supercharger whining, and the usual pops and bangs. You may want to turn the volume up for this one, as Hennessey put it, and we totally agree, as the car sounds demonic (pun intended). So, without further ado, let’s move on to the video, shall we?

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About the author: Cristian Gnaticov
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After a series of unfortunate events put an end to Cristian's dream of entering a custom built & tuned old-school Dacia into a rally competition, he moved on to drive press cars and write for a living. He's worked for several automotive online journals and now he's back at autoevolution after his first tour in the mid-2000s.
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