After a brief stint in the ’60s as a special model from the
original Mustang series, the first of the modern Ford Mustang
Shelby GT500 generations was revived as a 2007 model as part of the
fifth-generation S-197 Mustang. It came with a supercharged 5.4L V8 and a six-speed stick shift.
It served as a successor to the early-2000s SVT Cobra. It was fiendishly quick, but nose-heavy due to
the iron-block engine, but this problem was fixed in 2010 with a far lighter aluminum engine.