From the October 1983 Issue of Car and Driver. Forty thousand feet. Ground speed, 545 mph. We are boring through the atmosphere eastward, ensconced in the leather-lined lap of luxury in one of the ...
You might think that I lost my mind since I’m saying that a 175-hp Fox body was one of the best performance-oriented ‘Stangs of all time. But, unlike other generations, the SVO was a phenomenal ...
Ford's commitment to an overhead camshaft configuration for its V-8-powered passenger cars is being readily addressed by the company's Special Vehicle Operations performance parts division. According ...
This is a story of two powerful forces in conflict. The first force was the 1984 to 1986 Ford Mustang SVO, a limited-volume, high-tech, Fox-body high-performance Mustang variant. The other force was ...
The muscle car's darkest hour tends to slip from memory these days. Picture this: emissions regulations strangling big-block engines, fuel costs making V8 ownership painful, and the glory days of ...
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Inside the performance of the Mustang SVO turbo
The Ford Mustang SVO arrived in the mid‑1980s as a turbocharged counterpoint to Detroit’s V8 muscle, and it has since evolved from quirky outlier to a quietly appreciated modern classic. Collectors ...
Jim Wedge bought one of the last ’86 SVOs—then he sold it to his dad to keep it in the family Ford’s Mustang SVO is one of the breed’s best kept secrets because not many enthusiasts remember them ...
Originally launched as a pony car, the Ford Mustang developed into a fully-fledged muscle car toward the late 1960s. It also grew increasingly larger by 1973 when Ford discontinued the first ...
Corbin Goodwin and Michael Elterman attempted to make a junkyard Ford Mustang SVO faster than the modern EcoBoost version and failed miserably. But don’t let that detract from the coolness of the ...
You may have seen the SVO (Special Vehicle Operations) badge affixed to variants that top certain Jaguars and Land Rovers, but what does that little round insignia actually represent? Well, the SVO ...
The Mustang SVO is 20 years old. Hard to believe, right? Even harder for some of us to remember. But I remember. I was brand new to automotive journalism as this magazine's third editor. One of my ...
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