Interesting story in the NY Times:

The performance guru Carroll Shelby introduced, or rather reintroduced, the King of the Road Mustang at the 2007 New York auto show. Shelby introduced the original King of the Road model in 1967 — at New York show.
The GT500KR, or just KR, was the most powerful Mustang when it was first introduced back then, and it sold in limited quantities; it is a valued and sought-after six-figure collectible today. The limited (to 500 initially) edition 2008 model introduced here ups the ante in its claim as the most powerful Mustang ever, with 540 horsepower from a supercharged 5.4-liter V-8.
Shelby said the King of the Road designation came about quite suddenly in 1967, when he was told by a manager at Ford that Chevrolet planned to announce a King of the Road Corvette within a matter of weeks. Shelby immediately called his attorney and had him find out whether the King of the Road name had been trademarked. Turns out Chevy had dropped the ball on that little detail.
“So we had it trademarked by the next morning,” Shelby said. “We had all the GT500’s we had in stock rebadged as GT500KR’s, and within two weeks we had 50 of them ready to go.”
Whatever happened to those King of the Road Corvettes?

 

More hi-res pics:

http://www.leftlanenews.com/ford-mus...a-gt500kr.html

 

Mr B ,I think your confused and think this is a Ford site?

 

That looks even more evil.

I sure would like one, but I'm guessing it'll be a 6 figure mustang, I rather have a c6 z06 and c05 z06 daily lol, or a condo...

Maybe just a ton of Kraft Mac and Cheese, I'm talking like a pool full of it.

I'll have to read up more about it but the looks are awesome.

 

you know all these factory power wars is making it a little difficult keeping up...

 

Nice

 

Still cant take on a C6 Z06 in twisties or on a racetrack.

 

It's definetly on the top of the pony's list for me.

 

Looks nice! How much do you think they'll go for?

 

they only add 40 more horsepower and 30 torque? whats the point of that? on a car with 500, i am sure an intake and exhaust will do the same and it'll be alot less than what the dealer wants to charge. it looks like alot of eye candy which is fine, the picture looks really nice.

we'll see if it's made though.

 

Meh. Its ok

 

looks nice but not enough difference other than looks

 

sweet looking stang.

 

Nah.. I know better..

It's also not a Truck site, either.

 

Looks pretty sicko, but I'll still never spend that kinda dough on a mustang.

 

That looks like pure GARBAGE. 03-04 Cobra= best looking performing Mustangs IMHO

 

jeepers creepers, i'm the only one who likes it.

 

yup! C6 Z06 is still better

 

Z06 is still king and they didn't even have to make some limited edition, overhyped, badge mobile to get there.
dollar for dollar, the mustangs can't compare.

 

no. since i work next door to one of the biggest car delaerships in eastern PA, i spend a lot of lunch hours sitting in and "test" driving new cars. the new mustangs are handsome cars, ride very well, and have good power. the line GT could only hope for a bit better gas mileage and kinder insurance ratings to add to the appeal(they are one of the lowest theft rate new cars in america right now yet insurance rates them as "high theft/high risk" vehicles)
the gripe i have is that they keep hiding the fact that they are not able to perform up to their hype by releasing special edition cars. they can badge the car up and put on all the stripes in teh world, if it can't keep up in the performance department that is the end of the story. especially when dealerships are taking the already retarded sticker prices and tacking on $10k as a "market price adjustment" before they will let them go.