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Ford + Shelby = Voodoo

That’s what they’ve named the GT350 V8. “Voodoo“. It’s a naturally aspirated 5.2L engine (317cu) squeezing out an estimated 550 horsepower! It’s claimed to be their most powerful engine to-date, with new ideas and designs like it’s very European “Flat-plan crank” which has a few perks all on it’s own. It’s lighter, which means it can spin faster (estimated over 8000+ RPM) and also makes a very uniquely louder exhaust note. Who’s buying a GT350 to be subtle anyways?

While you and I are waiting for the 2016 Shelby GT350, the Barrette-Jackson Scotsdale auction is selling the first one on January 17th. Yeah, this month. How is that possible? It isn’t. Essentially they’re auctioning an I.O.U.

You have to be a pretty reputable company (much like Ford) to auction something that isn’t even physically an object yet, for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Who bids on an imaginary vehicle? Likely someone who has a few spare bucks laying around, because the 2015 Mustang GT pulled in $300,000 at the auction. You can safely assume that the first GT350 will auction for much more. What will you as a bidder be trading your money for? Dibs on creating the very first GT350 exactly how you want it. Your color, your interior and with whatever options they release it with. You get to bring the most powerful N/A car ever designed by ford, to your garage…..eventually.

Since Cambrian Ford is the only SVT dealer in Northern Ontario, you can bet we’ll be one of the first to have the GT350 buffed and gleaming in our showroom for groups of people to gather around.

-Jer’

If YOU had spent $300,000 on a Shelby GT350, would you drive it like it was built for, or dust it from time to time in a garage?

The Tallest Order for a Mustang

10,000 people watched a live dramatic journey of a hero repelling down a cliff in Arizona while speaking on a high tech optic phone of sorts. Following riding horseback, flying in an airliner, driving a Shelby Mustang, getting a lift in a helicopter and even dramatically riding a personal watercraft, this “hero” ran to the 112th floor of the Burj Khalifa. Almost a half Kilometer above the surface of our Earth the mysterious man was revealed playfully as Bill Ford. (great-grandson of Henry Ford.)

His mission? Simply place the Pony badge on the grille of the 2015 Mustang that was intricately assembled atop the Burj Khalifa the night before.

Why did Ford pick the Burj Khalifa? 2 Reasons: It’s the tallest building in the world, and because in 1965 Ford did a similar reveal on the top of the Empire State building. In 1965 it was the tallest building, so it only made sense to keep that in mind for the 2015 reveal 50 years later.

Like any large production, there is a LOT involved in placing a 3500+lbs vehicle inside a very fancy new building. Alright, so you might know that they took it apart and reassembled it on the roof, but how do you get all of those parts to fit in an elevator and still look genuine as a whole car? Here’s a video showing the car being assembled.

Kind of like a complicated model car for big kids?
-Jer’

Challenge The Fusion Hybrid #2 | A Whisper

We put out the word to the masses to challenge the quietness of the Ford Fusion Hybrid. How quiet could it really be? Jaymie-Lynn challenged us through Facebook to see if the Fusion Hybrid could be quieter than “a whisper”. We took this challenge and had Jerry do some whispering, but how do you show something so silent and compare them? Watch to find out!

Think you have a fun challenge for us? Please share it!

Passing 1000

We’ve got some great friends on Facebook from the area and surrounding that add their own ideas and humor to our posts! Thank you all! As more of our staff here at Cambrian are becoming involved in our page, you will be seeing more of how much fun we really are. We have a unique working dynamic for a business like ours and truly take pride in it. Thanks for being social with us!!

The beginning of a great Blog

Welcome to our new blog site! Okay, so what is a “blog” and why are we here? The answer is exciting! This is a central hub for everything we put online. From our Twitter feed, Facebook, Google+, You Tube and more. Why go searching 12 websites for that link we posted a week ago that made you chuckle uncontrollably when you can come here and find it easily? This is where we’re social. We’re here to talk to you, learn from you, and move forward with you. We wouldn’t be here without you, so it’s time we put our ear to the internet to gain your trust, friendship and to do it where we can all be comfortable.

Welcome to our most social endeavor yet.