Mustang GT500KR Fitted With Custom Goodyears

Goodyear has developed an ultra-performance rubber compound for their Eagle F1 Supercar tyre, which has won exclusive fitment rights on Ford’s new Mustang GT500KR. Carroll Shelby’s newly designed KR model will become the first production car to use the tyre in the US.

To mark out those tyres fitted on the Mustang, the Goodyear Wingfoot symbol will be emblazoned on the outboard sidewall in the tradition of the original customised appearance of the company’s Blue Dot HPs, which were fitted initially on the first-ever 1965 Shelby Mustang carrying, somewhat unsurprisingly, a blue dot.

The Eagle F1 Supercar has been designed specifically to provide increased levels of traction and cornering grip in the dry. Goodyear comments on the importance of the tyre in delivering not only this heightened performance, but in enabling the car to show off its estimated 540 horsepower, generated by a 5.4 litre supercharged V-8 engine.