---
title: "Drive Wire: Ford Letting You Get In on the Driving Action"
description: "Cars, Culture, and the People Who Make Both. Your Destination for All Things Automotive."
date: "2015-11-05"
modified: "2015-11-05"
authors:
  - name: "The Drive Staff"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/the-drive-staff"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/article/783/drive-wire-ford-letting-you-get-in-on-the-driving-action"
categories:
  - "News"
tags:
  - "Ford"
---

# Drive Wire: Ford Letting You Get In on the Driving Action

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Transcript:

Ladies and gentlemen, it is your turn to get in on the drag-racing action. Ford says it is perfectly willing to sell you an 8-second Mustang right off the lot. Well… more like out of the pages of the Ford performance catalog. The Cobra Jet Mustang is the first version of Ford’s purpose-built drag racer to use the new platform, and the company says it’s capable of 8-second quarter miles. The Cobra Jet is, to oversimplify things, a Mustang GT with a chunk of its engine replaced by higher-performance parts and a huge supercharger bolted on. And purists can rejoice—it’s the only Mustang you can buy with a solid rear axle. Ford will make just fifty of them, in blue and white only.

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