Ford Shelby Cobra, Interpreting a Legend

摘要

With this concept we are trying to take the audience, not just some-where they haven't been in a very long time but take them somewhere they've never been" According to J, Mays, Ford's Vice President for Design, it wasn't just a question of reviving the the legend of the Cobra, a car created by Carroll Shelby in the Sixties that went on to become an icon among sports cars Ford's intention was to go much farther and blaze an entirely new trail Completed at record speed (in just five months) and Presented at the Detroit Show, the Ford Shelby Cobra would take very little time and only a few minor adjustments to put into production, In many ways, it resembles the car that Shelby, a racing driver himself, put together 42 years ago, when he slotted a powerful Ford V8 engine under the bonnet of a British AC Ace sports car The new Cobra is powered by a 6. 4 litre V10 engine inside a barchetta body that is compact (396 cm long) spartan (no climate control here) and provides no on-board entertainment (not even a radio): "The exhaust makes its own music", says its Chief Designer, Richard Hutting.