After a first version with more than 1,400 hp, Ford Performance presents the new Mustang Super Cobra Jet 1800!
Moving ever closer to an electric future, Ford decided to name its first zero-emission SUV the Mustang. Without further ado, with purists, the Blue Oval brand also decided to electrify the Mustang Cobra Jet, a racing version of the famous coupe, for the first time. If the new generation hasn’t already been the subject of a comprehensive treatment, Ford puts the shell back and unveils the Mustang Super Cobra Jet 1800, which, to a deafening drumbeat, develops more than 1,800 horsepower.
In detail it is nothing more and nothing less than a Cobra Jet 1400 that has received some updates. The electric machines remain and keep their specific inverters. However, the battery has been extensively revised in collaboration with MLe Racecars, a company specializing in electric dragsters. Without giving any further details, the two specialists point to the presence of a new battery with increased output power but also lighter weight. Finally, the unit, controlled by a new electric management, delivers the performance via an unprecedented transmission.
An official entry in the competition for this Ford Mustang?
All this for what purpose? Beating itself: The Mustang Cobra Jet 1400 still holds the quarter mile record (400 m DA) for an electric tracker with a time of 8.128 s at an overtake speed of 276.70 km/h! This new Ford Mustang Super Cobra Jet is therefore likely to revise lap times downwards. To put it in perspective, a Rimac Nevera has yet to do better than an 8.585 on this exercise, and to our knowledge only a Tesla Model S Plaid (empty, smoothed and primed) could set a record with a time of 8.834 S .Either we remain impressed by these performances, or we will remember that the gap on the track is an eternity…
In any case, if the gap between production cars and dragsters has never been so narrow, these electric rockets should continue to develop. And that’s probably what this Super Cobra Jet is up to with a new record, but also with the NHRA, the association that governs drag racing: Ford and other manufacturers are exploring with the organization the possibility of creating an all-electric discipline like Nascar .
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