Two hundred miles per hour. That is the realm of Indy cars. A handful of ultra-exotic sports cars have also achieved the benchmark, but their price tags make most of them as unattainable as an Indy car.
So when Ford’s hot-rod tuners in the company’s Special Vehicles Team told the late Carroll Shelby that the 2013 Ford Shelby GT500 would achieve 200 mph, he could scarcely believe it. Shelby, who won the 24-hour sports car race at Le Mans as a driver, team owner and car builder, knew that doubling speed from 100 mph to 200 mph takes four times the power.
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