Shelby is making 30 units of a heavily-modified Ford Mustang GT500 called Code Red and powered by a 1,300-horsepower twin-turbocharged V8.

The Shelby Mustang CODE RED just raised the bar for street-legal brawlers by dropping an 8.593-second sledgehammer at 161.81 miles per hour (260.40 kilometers per hour) over the standing quarter-mile.

Shelby American is pushing the Mustang GT500 into hypercar territory with the “Code Red”, a GT500 conversion package that delivers a massive 1,300 hp (1,318 PS). Only 30 Code Reds will be ...

The Code Red is an experimental car, so Shelby will only build it in limited numbers. The plan right now is to produce 30 examples of the upgraded muscle car, one for the past three model years ...

The Code Red is an experimental car, so Shelby will only build it in limited numbers. The plan right now is to produce 30 examples of the upgraded muscle car, one for the past three model years ...

Pictured on one-piece 6061-T6 forged-aluminum wheels that measure 20 by 11 inches and 20 by 13 inches, the Code Red also benefits from a Shelby American widebody kit, lots of trick suspension ...

You should know immediately by the Mountain Dew-esque name that the Code Red Shelby isn't "just another fast Mustang." A "standard" 2022 GT500 made 760 horsepower from its supercharged 5.2-liter V8.

Although still in the prototype stages, Shelby's twin-turbocharged GT500 Code Red generates nearly 900 hp at the rear wheels with "only" 16 pounds of boost, easily topping 1,000 hp at the flywheel ...

The new Shelby Code Red is based on the 2020-2022 GT500. From the factory, the muscle car came with a 5.2-liter V-8 engine that delivered 760 horsepower and 625 pound-feet of torque.

You can add the Shelby GT500 Code Red to that list. The heavily modified Ford Mustang is even faster than initially thought, recently running the quarter mile in just 8.59 seconds at 161 mph.

The Shelby Mustang GT500 Code Red sets a new benchmark in muscle cars with its revolutionary powertrain. At its core is an impressive supercharged 5.2 liter V-8 to a twin-turbo system. This ...

Only 10 of the 1,000-plus-horsepower, twin-turbo Code Red editions will be built worldwide per model year for 2020-2022 Shelby GT500s.