{"id":568710,"date":"2010-05-18T14:28:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T18:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/05\/18\/video-2011-ford-gt500-spanks-last-years-model-by-nine-seconds\/"},"modified":"2010-05-18T14:28:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T18:28:00","slug":"video-2011-ford-gt500-spanks-last-years-model-by-nine-seconds-at-vir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/568710","title":{"rendered":"Video: 2011 Ford GT500 spanks last year’s model by nine seconds at VIR"},"content":{"rendered":"

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2011 Ford Mustang GT500 at VIR – Click above to watch video after the jump<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n

\nWe know firsthand that both the 2011 Ford Mustang V6<\/a> and GT<\/a> aren’t just plenty quick – they’re downright scary fast compared to their predecessors. It should follow, that the king of the heap 2011 GT500<\/a> should be similarly faster than the 2010 model. Let’s just go ahead and call that one an understatement. Ford just dropped a tasty video on the interwebs showing the car lapping one of our favorite tracks – Virginia International Speedway. <\/p>\n

Ford’s engineers had it in their minds that the new aluminum block<\/a> with its 120-pound weight savings should help the car click off the 4.1-mile Grand West portion of the track about three seconds quicker than the outgoing car. Thing is, the 2011 GT500 managed to lap the track in 2:58.5 – a full nine seconds faster than last year’s version.<\/p>\n

Progress is most definitely a good thing. Hit the jump<\/a> to see the car do the dance.<\/p>\n

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Gallery: 2011 Ford Shelby GT500 at Chicago Auto Show<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Gallery: 2011 Ford Shelby GT500 w\/ SVT Performance Package<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n[Source: Ford]<\/p>\n

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Filed under: Coupe, Performance, Videos, Ford 2011 Ford Mustang GT500 at VIR – Click above to watch video after the jump We know firsthand that both the 2011 Ford Mustang V6 and GT aren’t just plenty quick – they’re downright scary fast compared to their predecessors. It should follow, that the king of the heap […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6487,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6487"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}