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Ford Scrapped Mustang Shelby GT500 Aircraft Carrier 0-100-0 MPH Test Ad – CarScoops
Ford considered using an aircraft carrier’s runway for a performance test, but didn’t go ahead with it.

A Ford executive recently revealed that Ford was in the planning stages of a wild ad concept that, unfortunately, failed to materialize. The ad would have seen the Shelby GT500 running from 0 to 100 mph and then back down to zero over the length of an aircraft carrier runway.
We had our brochure company reach out to a mothballed ship fleet and we mathematically knew we could do it,” Jim Owens, Head of Mustang Marketing, told Ford Authority recently. “So we penned it out, and really wanted to do…
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