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The beef car wars are heating up in a big way. Along with its 2011 redesign, the Ford Mustang GT will be added ammunition able and powerful.

Ford has arise that the new Mustang GT will net a city/highway ammunition abridgement of 17/26 mpg if able with a six-speed chiral chiral and 18/25 mpg with its accessible six-speed automatic. And, as ahead reported, its allegorical 5.0-liter V8 engine is aback — but now with a whopping 412 horsepower.

“If you ask us, that affectionate of application abandoned in an everyman-car like the Mustang is alarming enough,” writes USA Today. “But to get admirable gas breadth — not great, for abiding — is a nice bonus.”

According to Autoblog: “These numbers are not alone a huge advance from the 2010 Mustang with the 4.6-liter V8 (15/23 mpg w/manual, 15/22 mpg w/automatic), but they aswell best the abstracts accomplished by the Chevrolet Camaro SS – 16/24 mpg if able with a chiral and 16/25 mpg with the automatic.”

More application is a accustomed change too. The 412-horsepower GT will accommodate 97 added horses than the 2010 archetypal — that’s added ability than the Dodge Charger RT and Challenger RT, as able-bodied as the abject Camaro. The achievement trims of anniversary – namely the Camaro SS, Challenger SRT8 and Charger SRT8 — aftermath almost 13 added application than the 2011 GT. However, none can top its ammunition economy.

The advertisement comes just one anniversary afterwards Ford’s jaw-dropping advertisement about the abject archetypal of the 2011 Mustang. “Ford says the V6-powered Mustang has been certified by the EPA to bear 30-31 mpg on the artery (depending on the transmission) and 19 mpg in the city,” explains Autoweek. “Ford says this is the aboriginal time anyone has delivered a car with added than 300 hp and bigger than 30 mpg.”

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