---
title: "New Mustang Cobra Jet: The Gnarliest Eight Seconds in Sports"
description: "Your $100k, solid rear axle, Whipple-blown, drag racing Mustang is here."
date: "2015-11-05"
modified: "2015-11-05"
authors:
  - name: "Max Prince"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/max-prince"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/773/new-mustang-cobra-jet-the-gnarliest-eight-seconds-in-sports"
categories:
  - "Ford News"
  - "News"
  - "News by Brand"
tags:
  - "Coupe"
  - "Ford"
  - "Mustang"
  - "race car"
---

# New Mustang Cobra Jet: The Gnarliest Eight Seconds in Sports

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/images-by-url-td/content/archive-images/cobrajet_hero.jpg>)
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*Nasty*. That’s the best way to describe the 2016 Mustang Cobra Jet, a purpose-built drag racing hero. Only 50 examples will be built, each priced at $99,990. The Cobra Jet is so nasty it’s not even a car, technically. This is just Ford part code “M-FR500-CJ,” no VIN number included. Camaro has [handily served](<https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/657/the-2016-chevrolet-camaro-ss-sends-the-ford-mustang-gt-to-the-slaughter>) Mustang on the street. But this new Cobra Jet? This could be a [COPO](<https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/736/new-copo-camaro-debuts-at-sema-is-totally-sema>) killer.

![cobrajet\_art.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/cobrajet_art.jpg>)

It’s certainly got the hardware. Meet the only Mustang still using an old school solid rear axle, a proper 9-inch. Also: a Whipple supercharger, adjustable coil-over shocks, lightweight wheels and brakes, Hoosier slicks, FIA race-approved seats, five-point harnesses, Aeromotive fuel system with trunk-mounted cell and a roll cage spec’d for 8.50-second quarter-mile passes. Oh, and a parachute. I almost died in an old [nose-lifting Cobra Jet once](<https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/features/a7934/roy-hill-ihra-cobra-jet-drag-racing/>). The new car’s optional wheelie bars are a bargain at $1,995.

![cobrajet\_gal\_1.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/cobrajet_gal_1.jpg>)

![cobrajet\_gal\_2.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/cobrajet_gal_2.jpg>)

![cobrajet\_gal\_3.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/cobrajet_gal_3.jpg>)

![cobrajet\_gal\_4.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/cobrajet_gal_4.jpg>)

![cobrajet\_gal\_5.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/cobrajet_gal_5.jpg>)

No details on the blown 5-liter V8 yet, but Ford did offer a video. Pro bull riding fans call it the gnarliest eight seconds in sports. But watch the clip below, a new Cobra Jet yanking the front wheels and banging gears and demolishing a quarter-mile pass.

![cobrajet\_gal\_6.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/cobrajet_gal_6.jpg>)

Yeah. Pro bull riding can get bent.

https://youtube.com/embed/rktXMc_3mZA

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