You'll Always Know When It's Time To Shift In A Ford Shelby GT350

Published on July 24, 2015 in Technology/Autonomous Vehicles by Frédérick Boucher-Gaulin

Race cars (as well as more than a few performance cars that are road-legal) are usually equipped with a shift light that tells the driver its engine has reached peak horsepower and it is time to shift to the next gear: whether it is the large light next to the rev counter in a dragster to the LEDs in a Ferrari that light up one after the other as the revs climb, there are various ways to achieve this feature, and they are all very useful.

Ford announced that the latest sport car to come out of their factories, the GT350 –as well as its bigger brother, the GT350R– will feature such a light; even better, it will have 3 modes, which can all be configured.

First of all, the LEDs will be placed far into the dashboard, which means they will reflect into the windshield; all 18 of them will be amber-coloured, and they will light up in different fashions depending on the selected mode:

This system will come standard with the GT350 and GT350R; they will certainly be a huge asset for drivers that want to exploit the full capabilities of the flatplane V8 and its 8250 RPM rev limit!

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