Saleen Mustang

Saleen company was founded in 1983 racer Steve Saleen. The first production model was the Saleen, Ford Mustang Saleen 1984.

The first machine used a full-time engines Ford, and modification was to improve handling.Over the years, followed by victory in the famous Mustang Saleen competitions, including the Le Man 24 hours and 24 hours of Daytona and many championships SCCA. Saleen built many different versions of the Ford Mustang, marked "S281". For example, S281 SC - a model with a V8 4.6 liter engine with a turbo-nagnetalem a capacity of 465 HP Model S302 Extreme instead of the standard engine used its own Saleen V8 capacity of 620 liters. a.

In 2007, Saleen and American racing legend Parneli Jones, created a limited batch of Ford Mustang, often called the Saleen / Parnelli Jones S302. This version was created in honor of the legendary race 70 Ford Mustang Boss 302. In the car put the engine Saleen MOD 302 V8 with 400 hp and 529 Nm of torque. Externally, S302 is the front bumper, hood scoop, pads on the rear side windows, alloy wheels and unique Saleen / Parnelli Jones. It was released only 500 of Mustang.

In 2007 appeared the film Transformers, where one of the heroes was a police car based on the Saleen S281 (Barricade). The popularity has increased dramatically and the company decided to release a limited batch of cars for sale. In contrast to the hero of the film, the inscription «Police» on board were replaced by «Saleen», and "9-1-1" on the rear bumper was replaced with a "4-1-1", and of course the siren and flashing lights were removed.