Ford threw a helluva party last night in Charlotte, North Carolina. It marked the launch of the corporate’s 2024 racing season by means of Ford Performance, starting subsequent week with the massive endurance race at Daytona. The new Mustang GT3 can be there in pressure, and firm CEO Jim Farley needs the world to understand it has a V8 engine below the hood.

Actually, he needs the world to know there are tons of V8 Mustangs on the market proper now, each for the road and the observe. And it isn’t simply an American factor both. Speaking to a raucous Blue Oval crowd at a particular venue in Charlotte – the guts of NASCAR nation – he pulled no punches about Mustang being a world automobile for fanatics and race groups alike. And he firmly tied the Coyote V8 to its success.