More Spy Shots - They Say it's a 2019 GT350?

[SID297]

From SEMA.

This is the ’19 Shelby GT350 caught running the streets of Dearborn, Michigan.

Ford will update the GT350, following the facelifted ’18 Mustang line and the upcoming GT500. But this heavily camouflauged prototype was caught testing with the Porsche 911 GT3, suggesting a boost in performance abilities.

The GT350 already comes with a 5.2L V8 with 526hp, but Ford could upgrade that a bit. A six-speed manual is likely to remain the only transmission. Settings from the Track Package or GT350R may also make their way onto the standard car. New styling tweaks will also be part of the update.

Expect to see the ’19 GT350 next spring.

Photo credit: Brian Williams, SpiedBilde

 

[Sonic605hp]

Hmm

 

[Famine]

Interesting.

 

[paluka21]

If indeed this is an enhanced/upgraded 2019 MY GT350 model that we've been seeing spy photo's of, that may indicate what I suspected initially; that Ford may wait until the 2020 MY refresh to release it's top dog. The mustang is due to receive hybrid technology that could very well be implemented into a hybrid/turbocharged cobra/GT500 variant. Strategically it makes sense given that the GT350's are rumored to be produced as a 2019 MY car.
Why not just wait until the 2020 refresh with hybrid technology to blow the competition out of the water, simultaneously introducing unique engineering into the new halo mustang?
That's my guess.

 

[HISSMAN]

10 Speed auto option. Bookmark it.

 

[paluka21]

10 Speed auto option. Bookmark it.

I agree.

 

[Fourcam380]

This is another application where the tremec DCT makes sense due to rpm.

 

[DepWraith]

Why would they update the GT350 for one year with a major change slated for 2020?

 

[HISSMAN]

Ford Does that all the time. They would just carry that engine transmission package over to the next gen.

 

[DepWraith]

Ford Does that all the time. They would just carry that engine transmission package over to the next gen.

What's the last SVT they did that with?

 

[HISSMAN]

What's the last SVT they did that with?

SVT is dead.

 

[DepWraith]

Ok, what's the last time "Ford Performance", previously known as "SVT", did that?

SVT is dead.

 

[HISSMAN]

Hard to say. They have only really been around two and a half years. Lets say the Ford GT, with it's DCT. But if Ford wants to really compete with the other guys, the 10 speed will help in a big way.

 

[Recon]

I'd be interested in seeing if it comes with all the goodies the Coyote is getting in 2018. And although I'm a diehard manual guy I think they should have the 10 speed as an option on it.

 

[tones_RS3]

So,.....no new GT500 for 2019?!?!
**** it, maybe I'll just trade the Roush in and order a 2019 GT350R and add a P-1X or D-1X instead.

 

[99cobraUgotbit]

Will someone reach through my phone right now and pimp slap me for waisting all this time on speculation threads!?!

 

[Islandcat]

it says

"Ford will update the GT350, following the facelifted ’18 Mustang line and the upcoming GT500"

Hopefully this just confirmed a gt500 will be coming out before this 2019 gt350, but I am just starting to think that it is wishful thinking that there will be a gt500.

 

[Sonic605hp]

Depressing shit.

 

[DepWraith]

Hard to say. They have only really been around two and a half years. Lets say the Ford GT, with it's DCT. But if Ford wants to really compete with the other guys, the 10 speed will help in a big way.

Wouldn't call a transmission a complete update to a model. SVT was absorbed into Ford Performance along with the RS division, so essentially it's all the same. I can't recall one singe model (be it SVT, Ford Performance, whatever) that was built for one model year just prior to a major model change.

If you think about it, a 2018 and 2019 GT500 would be much like the 2013/2014 before the last change.

 

[RX1Cobra]

Wouldn't call a transmission a complete update to a model. SVT was absorbed into Ford Performance along with the RS division, so essentially it's all the same. I can't recall one singe model (be it SVT, Ford Performance, whatever) that was built for one model year just prior to a major model change.

If you think about it, a 2018 and 2019 GT500 would be much like the 2013/2014 before the last change.

93 Cobra