Page 14 of 2008 Performance Parts by Ford Racing Performance Parts

in the early 90s as racing continued to grow svo s duties were refocused on racing and performance parts and ford s performance street-car development was handed to a new special vehicle team guided by the goals to deliver performance substance exclusivity and value svt assumed the responsibility for all factory-built performance fords setting the standard for the high-performance enthusiast vehicles that carried the flag for dearborn from 1993 to 2004 ford svt pumped out legendary vehicles such as the mustang cobra cobra r svt f-150 lightning pickup svt contour sport sedan and the svt focus sport compact over that period more than 150,000 svt vehicles were sold to ford enthusiasts worldwide making svt the longest-running best-selling most successful niche performance vehicle operation in history today we at ford racing combine the efforts of svo and svt in developing ford performance parts required for cars for racing and street enthusiasts and at times the cars themselves the new 2005 mustang opened a new chapter in the car s ever-evolving performance story it was designed from the ground up with performance derivatives in mind with a chassis that provides an exceptionally rigid well-engineered starting point for our ford racing engineers while sports car buffs were insisting that an independent rear suspension irs is the hot ticket the mustang was validating its solid axle rear suspension design out on the street and track the ford racing mustang fr500c is a perfect example of a solid-axle rear suspension car going toe to toe with irs-equipped cars from porsche and bmw ­ and winning the fr500c was purpose-built from the base 2005 mustang body structure and suspension geometry competing against the best manufacturers from germany and japan a mustang fr500c won its first race in the season opener at daytona international speedway in february 2005 led by a partnership with multimatic under larry holt the #05 fr500c driven by scott maxwell and david empringham went on to dominate the 2005 grand-am cup season and clinched the drivers team and manufacturers championships after winning in america we set our sights once again on winning in europe in 2007 mustang entered the fia gt series race at silverstone with the fr500c in gt4 and the fr500gt in gt3 american gunnar jeanette delivered ford its first win the fia gt4 european cup championship in may and eric de doncker took an early lead in the gt4 points standings 12 techline 800 ford788

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