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Two new 'Cobra' style cars were launched in 1997, the 'Superblower', an aluminium-bodied car with a supercharged 4,942-cubic-centimetre (301.6 cu in) Ford V8 providing 239 kW (320 hp; 324 PS) and the cheaper 'Carbon Road Series' (CRS) with a carbonfibre body and a 168 kW (225 hp; 228 PS) version of the Ford V8 engine. 22 Superblowers and 37 ...
The Python is a small- production run sports car modeled closely after a prototype designed by Ford in the mid-1960s when Ford's Vice President of Design, Eugene 'Gene' Bordinat (pronounced Bor-din-ay), designed a new body for Carroll Shelby to use as a replacement for the AC Cobra.
The Cobra GT Roadster has a carbon/composite body placed on an extruded aluminum chassis. It offers a 5.0 L Coyote V8 engine from the Ford Mustang, [4] with a compressor and delivering 663 hp for 780 NM of torque. [5]
Cobra 400, the last numbered Falcon Cobra off the production line, was bought in 1985 by Damien Lowry for $10,990 and used as a daily driver. In 1985 the car was disassembled for restoration following a traffic accident. The car remained that way, in boxes in Damien's garage, until February 2017 when he took it to Astill Design to be restored.
[1]: 36 The new Cobra convertible, or Indy 500 Pace Car Replica, was made available later in the 1994 model year. The 1994 Cobra offered refinements compared to lower trim level Mustang models. [ 1 ] : 10 According to Jim Campisano's book Powered by SVT: Celebrating a Decade of Ford Performance, below is a list of items that set the 1994 SVT ...
To race a car with its new 302-cubic-inch engine in the Trans-Am series, Mustang had to offer a production version of that car. Mustang's new competitor, the Chevy Camaro, had done just that and ...
At the end of the 1964 racing season, the Cobra was being outclassed in sports car racing by Ferrari. Carroll Shelby decided he needed a bigger engine. A big block Ford FE series 390 V8 was installed in a Cobra but it was over-powered and the car was now almost undrivable. It was decided that a completely new chassis was needed.
Ford's Advanced Product Creation team designed and built the Shelby Cobra concept in five months. The project was led by Manfred Rumpel. Like several other Ford vehicles developed in the early 2000s (such as the GT40 concept, the GT and the fifth-generation Mustang), the Shelby Cobra concept is a modern interpretation of an older vehicle.