Along with the new 2011 Mustang GT 5.0-liter V8, Ford also took the covers off a track version of its updated pony car called the BOSS 302R in honor of the 40th anniversary of Parnelli Jones' 1970 Trans-Am championship in a Mustang BOSS 302 prepared by Bud Moore Engineering.
Set to replace the Mustang FR500C, the BOSS 302R features the GT's new 5.0-liter V8 engine coupled to a six-speed manual transmission and comes equipped with a roll cage, race seats, safety harness, data acquisition and race dampers/springs, and a Brembo brake and tire package.
The base Mustang BOSS 302R racer retails at $79,000.
If you're looking for something more hardcore, Ford also offers the M-FR500-BOSS R1 that's eligible to compete in the Grand-Am Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge series (formerly known as KONI Challenge), starting with the season-opening race in Daytona on Jan. 29, 2010.
Priced at $129,000, this version features a sealed high-output race engine with an upgraded cooling system, a close-ratio six-speed transmission with integral shifter, a seam-welded body, race suspension/KONI dampers and ABS brake tuning, race performance exhaust and a high-speed balance one-piece driveshaft.
Ford said that a total of 50 BOSS 302R Mustangs will be built by the firm's racing division with first deliveries anticipated in the third quarter of 2010.
4 Comments:
now take the rear end from this and put it in the roadcar...now there you go you get a car that also handles and everyone's happy! :D
that is a bargain for a brand new racecar! thought i didn't read anything about a fully independent rear suspension. still would absolutely love to drive one on a track!
I wonder if it has heat, defrost, and wipers?
IRS...?
What! No side, road exhaust.
The 2000' Cobra 'R' made some of the best engine music imaginable with it's road exhaust, whether idling or running down a country road grabbing gears. And boy you had to grab them, rather stiff shifting, and you had to be very deliberate with selection in the higher rev range.
HP & Torque are nearly the same with the two cars so the Boss 302R should punch a hole into the twelves in the quarter mile, and break four and a half seconds to 60MPH and top out at around 175 MPH depending on gearing.
I saw Parnelli run the Boss 302 at SIR(Now(Again) Pacific Raceway, Kent,Washington ) during the 1970 Trans Am season. That was a brutal race with some great drivers, a mix of road racers and 'stock car/champ car' drivers.
Mark Donohue's beautiful, finesse, driving style in the Javelin, couldn't hold off the charging Parnelli, and it wasn't even close at the end with Donohue still in the valley when Parnelli crossed the finish line.
As I recall, Donohue's bright blue and yellow Sunoco AMC Javelin was the only car to finish on the same lap as Parnelli's bright yellow Mustang, almost half the field of thirty cars were gone at the end, and the rest laps back from first and second.
The Boss 302R will be rarer then the 2000 Cobra R at only 50 units to the 2000 Cobra R's 300 units.
This Boss 302R will probably lead to a street version or at least an optional decal package.
3Deuce27
Nice car to bad i cant have one
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