That car was the De Tomaso Mangusta, which was built to kill the Shelby Cobra. This article focuses on the De Tomaso Mangusta and its history.

choosing the Shelby Cobra as the basis for the CDA one-off. However, the Exners didn't have the means to fabricate the car, so Virgil Sr. had to call some of his old friends to find a suitable ...

during which time only 401 examples of the mid-engine Italian mongoose were produced. Despite not tearing down Shelby's ...

See All 47 Photos For the past 60-plus years, the Shelby Cobra has been the shining star of that amalgamation of premium power and alluring looks—an attractive yet petite, British-bred AC roadster ...

It’s a living legend. Hillbank Motor Cars, the purveyor of recreated classic cars like the Shelby Cobra and Ford GT40, ...

As a muscle car, the 442 was always the also-ran in my mind. The styling was the always goofy, the engines lazy ... produced this successor to the Shelby Cobra with insufficient power from ...

This more exotic engine puts out 526bhp and 429lb ft of torque, an extra 116bhp more than the standard car’s V8 and with ... steering wheel, with a Shelby cobra logo on the centre, are the ...

Just look at it, and tell me you don’t want this Superformance Shelby Daytona ... sold by long-time Cobra experts Rod Leach’s Nostalgia, this is the MkII version of the car we last featured ...

Under its radical exterior sat a twin-turbocharged 6.0-liter V8 engine, producing a staggering 625 hp and 630 lb-ft of torque. At the top of the list sits the most powerful classic American car ever ...

After all, a new one says the same, so the ultra-hot muscle car should be around a year away. Some say the all-new Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 ... is said to use an engine called Legend that will ...

Armed with his budget-friendly Temu haul, he picked up a $500 junkyard LS engine and got to work. He swapped out the camshaft ...