Ford has adored the Boss nameplate and appear today the 2012 Mustang Boss 302! The new car is based on the 5.0-liter Mustang GT, the new 2012 adaptation of the archetypal muscle-car was appear at the Laguna Seca.
So, what it so appropriate about this car? Besides the actuality that it represents a allotment of history and continues the attitude of the Boss Mustangs, the new car accustomed an important ability addition and now its 5.0-liter V8 agent delivers 448 hp and 380 lb.-ft. of torque, acknowledgment to a new assimilation with revised camshafts. The agent is akin to a close-ratio six-speed chiral gearbox and acknowledgment to a accumulated abeyance and annoy amalgamation allows Boss to accomplish a top dispatch of 155 mph and become the aboriginal non-SVT Mustang anytime to accomplish added than 1.0 g of crabbed acceleration.
The architecture of the car is completed by the failing 19-inch atramentous admixture antagonism auto in staggered widths: 9 inches in front, 9.5 inches in the rear, captivated in Pirelli PZero aerial achievement tires. Boss braking is additionally up to the challenge, application Brembo four-piston advanced calipers acting on 14-inch vented rotors up front. In the back, accepted Mustang GT brakes are upgraded with a Boss-specific high-performance pad compound. Also, the Boss 302 has been bargain 11 mm in the advanced and 1 mm in the rear in adjustment to access bigger adherence at aerial speeds.
To bless the antagonism ancestry of the new Mustang Boss 302, Ford will additionally action a bound cardinal of Boss 302 Laguna Seca models, called for the clue area Parnelli Jones won the 1970 Trans-Am division opener in a Boss 302. Aimed at racers added absorbed in on-track achievement than animal comforts, the Boss 302 Laguna Seca has added anatomy stiffness, a firmer anatomy accoutrement and an aerodynamics amalgamation agitated over about in its absoluteness from the Ford Antagonism Boss 302R.