Will Sol

Forty years ago Parnelli Jones won Trans Am with a black-striped yellow Mustang. To celebrate, Ford's offering fifty copies of the fully race-prepared 2011 Ford Mustang Boss 302R, complete with a race-spec 5.0-liter V8.

Beginning next year, if you are so inclined, you'll be able to walk into your local Ford dealership, pass by the showroom, step up to the parts counter and order from the Ford Racing catalog a Trans Am spec Boss 302R priced at $79,000 or a Grand Am spec Boss 302R1 at $129,000. The car is considered a racing part and ordered as such. The Boss is a track-only race car with a maximum run in 2010 of only 50 cars and while it shares a great deal with the factory Mustang, it's heavily modified to take the place of the Ford Racing FR500C.


It takes guts to put your untested new engine straight into a race car, but Ford is doing just that. At the heart of the Boss 302R is the all-new aluminum 5.0-liter V8, though it's been stripped of the superflous gadgety, equiped with a high-rise intake manifold, race exhaust, and data aquisition systems. At the corners the car is fitted with adjustable Koni coilovers and Brembo four-pison calipers over slotted rotors, 18x10 BBS wheels are shod in racing slicks.

The car is equipped with a 25 gallon fuel cell slickly integrated into the trunk with quick-fuel connections, a multi-point fire supression system, race seats with driver restraint netting. It's body is fully seam-welded and augmented by an FIA-certified roll cage. Any thought of this car as anything but a VIN-free race car is eliminated when you open the door, a plastic skin stretched over a lightweight door frame, side intrusion beams being completely superflous when a race cage is installed.




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DEARBORN, Mich., Dec. 28, 2009 – Forty years after its namesake became a road racing legend, the BOSS is back on track for 2010 with a new 5.0-liter V-8 engine.

In honor of the 40th anniversary of Parnelli Jones' 1970 Trans-Am championship in a Mustang BOSS 302 prepared by Bud Moore Engineering, Ford Racing is introducing the BOSS 302R, a factory-built race car ready for track days and road racing in a number of Grand-Am, SCCA and NASA classes.

"To keep pace with consumer demand, the Ford team has built modern versions of the most iconic performance Mustangs over the years," said Jamie Allison, director, Ford North America Motorsports. "From Shelbys to Bullitt, Mach and Cobra Jet, it is now time for BOSS to join the list of America's most coveted Mustangs. The original BOSS 302 was a championship-winning legend and the new Mustang BOSS 302R will carry on the tradition. The Mustang was born to race from the start, and this new Mustang is bred to win."

The Mustang BOSS 302R is a serialized off-road-only vehicle ready to race. Each base model will come with a 5.0-liter four-valve engine and a six-speed manual transmission with a roll cage, race seats, safety harness, data acquisition and race dampers/springs, and a Brembo brake and tire package, starting at an MSRP of $79,000.

And, with a special Grand-Am Homologation Package (M-FR500-BOSS R1), it will also be ready to compete in the Grand-Am Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge series (formerly known as KONI Challenge), starting with the season-opening race in Daytona on Jan. 29, 2010. As of today, five BOSS 302R race cars will be delivered to customers ready to race in Daytona. MSRP of the BOSS 302R1 is $129,000.

The Grand-Am Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge-ready Mustang BOSS 302R will feature a sealed high-output race engine with an upgraded cooling system, a close-ratio six-speed transmission with integral shifter, a seam-welded body, race suspension/KONI dampers and ABS brake tuning, race performance exhaust and a high-speed balance one-piece driveshaft.

The BOSS 302R follows in the very successful footsteps of its most recent road racing predecessor – the Mustang FR500C from Ford Racing. In 2005, when the Mustang FR500C debuted at Daytona, the first car was delivered on Wednesday of that week and won the KONI Challenge race on Friday.

In five years of competition since then, the Mustang FR500C has won three Triple Crown championships of driver, team and manufacturer's titles in KONI competition including back-to-back (2008 and 2009). The FR500C has also seen success in FIA GT4 competition winning the 2007 and 2008 driver's championships.

"We expect the BOSS 302R to continue the successful tradition of winning with factory-built production-based race cars from Ford Racing," said Allison. "The FR500C and FR500S road racing Mustangs, and the Mustang FR500CJ (Cobra Jet) for drag racing have proven to be great cars for our customers, helping teams win races and championships. We believe that the BOSS 302R will provide that same sort of competitive product for our customers with the tradition you can only get from Ford Racing."

Each Ford Racing factory-built production-based turnkey race car has won its competition debut.

"Racing has long served as a technical proving grounds for production engines," said Allison. "What's good enough for the streets is now good enough for the racetrack. The 5.0-liter block and architecture in the Mustang BOSS 302R is the same as the 2011 Mustang GT."

"We have a great team on the BOSS 302R project," said Andy Slankard, Ford Racing engineering supervisor and the lead engineer on the BOSS 302R project. "Between our partners at AutoAlliance International, where the Mustang is built, Team Mustang, Multimatic and the entire Ford Racing team, we have once again proven to be a leader in turnkey production-based race cars."

Available through Ford dealers, a total of 50 BOSS 302R Mustangs will be built by Ford Racing. Delivery is anticipated in the third quarter of 2010.



Cliffs- Turn Key race car now availible at the parts counter.

R.King

awesome, another fucking "special edition" mustang

Will Sol

Its more of a REALLY special Edition - TURN KEY RACE CAR.

not road legal.

BAN HAMMER

Except probably 45 of them will end up in the hands of collecters and never be raced.

I see this possibly ending badly.

catfSSh

So $80,000 for a 5.0 stripped down of all the "gadgetry" with some bolt ons, a bigger fuel tank, and some suspension goodies.



Sucks.

TATTRAT

Still ug

DisturbedFocus

gimme a drink girl

vmspionage

For the same money as the grand am spec 302r you could have a Viper competition coupe.

JROW

This is a waste, although it will be eaten up by rednecks w/ cash. As stated earlier, most will probly sit in a barn forever.

shawn22

Its alot more than that. Its a ground up designed race car. Much like the Miller Motorsports Cup cars, and the current/former Grand Am Cup cars they sold.

Yes, but consumables on the mustang will be MUCH cheaper, and there will be more series to race in with the Mustang for less buy in. For racers, this will allow more racing to be done for less money.