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Red, white and boost. Hunkered down over wider wheels tires, the Shelby GT500 Road and Track has a more intimidating stance than garden-variety GT500s.
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Love the rear diffuser and polished exhaust tips. The exhaust will be available through Ford Racing, but don't count on the diffuser.
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Two Sparco buckets and a harness bar replace all four of the GT500's stock seats.
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Fikse's18-inch forged wheels are so choice on the GT500 Road and Track; its flanks identify it as a GT500FR, as in Ford Racing.
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There's 600 horsepower in there, all with bolt-ons. Gotta love boosted engines.
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This NACA duct replaces the fixed rear quarter window, delivering cooling air to the differential. Makes us question the durability of the stock pumpkin, but the ducts sure look bitchin' and, after all, it's a show car.
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2007 Shelby GT500 Road and Track

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What is it?
2007 Shelby GT500 Road and Track

What's special about it?
In supercharged Shelby GT500 guise, the Mustang packs more horsepower for the dollar than anything in the solar system. Unfortunately, it also packs a lot of weight. What's a GT500 lover to do? Add more sauce. Enter Ford Racing and the Shelby GT500 Road and Track.

This one's the real deal. Nearly all of the parts shown on the Shelby GT500 Road and Track will soon be available for any power-crazed GT500 owner. In case it's not obvious by the car's unwieldy name, the Road and Track has mods intended to increase performance without compromising livability too much.

Most of the Road and Track's parts are fugitives from Ford Racing's prototype shop. A Ford Racing Super Pack elevates the GT500's stock 500 horsepower to a dizzying 600 in the Road and Track with the help of a blower upgrade, headers, exhaust and a reflashed engine controller. Jamie Allison, manager of Ford Racing's Performance Parts division, says they're "still working out the details of the Super Pack" and that an entry-level Power Pack, good for 50 hp over stock, will be available in January.

Likewise, a Ford Racing Handling Pack lowers the rear by a whopping 2 inches and the front by slightly less. With new springs, dampers and stabilizer bars, it gives just the right stance, eliminating the tiptoe look of stock GT500s. Understated Fikse 18-inch forged wheels wear 295/35 Goodyear Eagle F1s in the rear, and 275/35 up front.

Show-car touches include deleted rear seats, a harness bar and surprisingly comfortable Sparco seats. Coolest-looking of all are the NACA ducts feeding airflow to the differential.

Looks great. Now it just needs a diet.

What's Edmunds' take?
Of the three modified GT500s Ford had on display, this is the one that best elevates the GT500's mission. It delivers track-worthy muscle without unduly forsaking the GT500's roots as a street car. — Jason Kavanagh