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TG2: Cars and Stripes

Video: renting and 'racing' the 900bhp+ Mustang Shelby GT500-H

Can a modified Mustang beat a running man? Also in episode five of new TG2: Cars and Stripes - Toyota GR Corolla vs Subaru BRZ

Published: 19 Dec 2023
30 minutes 48 seconds

The new Mustang Shelby GT500-H has over 900bhp and can be rented from a bog standard Hertz booth... so we flew to New York and did so gladly. However, despite this car being a direct descendant of the 1966 GT350-H – the first Shelby/Hertz collab and the original rent-a-racer – Hertz was adamant that no track driving or road racing was allowed. Which got us thinking...

Oh, and also in this new episode of TG2: Cars and Stripes, we discover that life isn't fair – mainly because the US gets a pile of cool cars we don't. To prove the problem is real and requires drastic and immediate rectification, Jethro and Jack gathered a Toyota GR Corolla (that shares much of its running gear and underpinnings with the sublime GR Yaris) and a Subaru BRZ (that shares almost all its underpinnings with the sublime Toyota GR86) and took them to a racetrack in Arizona. The mission? To construct a watertight argument for why both cars should be brought to the UK immediately...

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