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Ford is bringing dorsum the Mustang Mach 1 for 2021

Details are still sketchy, just Ford is promising the "most track-ready v.0L Mustang ever"

May 29, 2020 • June 1, 2020 • 1 minute read • Join the conversation

2021 Mustang Mach i Photo by Ford

Seventeen years after the terminal Mustang Mach ane rode off into the dusk, Ford is bringing dorsum that storied nameplate for 2021.

There'due south no EcoBoost four-cylinder hither, of course. It's 5.0L V8 all the way, and Ford said the new Mach 1 will be the "almost track-ready 5.0L Mustang ever."

The automaker has only unveiled teaser images for at present, but nosotros're seeing huge quad pipes, Brembo brakes behind nineteen-inch wheels wrapped with Pilot Sport Cup 2 functioning tires, and honeycomb grilles, merely with round inlets that are mindful of the lights on the first Mach one of 1969.

That first Mach 1 came stock with a 351-cubic-inch (5.7-L) V8 that made 250 horsepower, with two optional V8s. That was matched to a GT handling suspension for improved performance.

Exactly what 5.0L V8 the 2021 Mach 1 will go is still up in the air. For 2020, Ford offers 460 horses in the GT; 480 hp in the Bullitt; and moving up to the Shelby models, you become 526 hp in the GT350, and 760 hp in the supercharged GT500.

The Mach 1 was traditionally Mustang's pace betwixt the base cars and the top-of-the-powerband models. The Bullitt has come up and gone before, and both it and the GT350 are slated for the chopping block at the end of this model year. That would logically slide the Mach 1 between the GT and GT500, and give it bragging rights every bit the near powerful naturally-aspirated eight-cylinder.

The original Mach ane debuted for 1969, and continued through when the Mustang grew larger and longer for 1971. It also fabricated the transition to the smaller, all-new Mustang Ii in 1974, just was discontinued in 1978. Information technology returned for the 2003 and 2004 model years as a retro-style edition with 4.6L V8 making 302 horsepower, and with a stick shift or automatic transmission.