The Shelby Super Snake Starts at $160,000, and You Can Only Choose Its Color, Really

Shelby American starts with the 2024 Ford Mustang GT optioned with the 401A Premium High Equipment Group and the Performance Package. The Las Vegas speed shop's only three concessions to buyers are body style, color, and transmission. That’s it—no fuss about creature comforts, tire choices, luggage accessories, or whatever else carmakers throw in their build lists (Ford included).

Therefore, a 2024 Shelby Super Snake can be either a fastback or a convertible, with a six-speed manual or a ten-speed automatic. It comes in six base colors and four striping hues. The cheapest possible ‘triple S’ (from Shelby, Super, and Snake) is $159,995—fastback, standard color, manual transmission.

The automatic ten-speed box adds a sweet $1,595 to the starting price, and choosing a color that’s not Shadow Black, Oxford White, or Iconic Silver is going to cost from $295 (Atlas Blue, Race Red) to $495 (Rapid Red Metallic). Thankfully, the three-stripe graphics (mandatory on a Super Snake) are free of charge. However, removing some of the car from the build sheet will increase the price by $5,500. That’s how much Shelby will charge you for not putting a solid roof over the four seats.

 All in all, the most money-intensive Shelby Super Snake of 2024 is $167,585 and consists of the Ford Mustang GT convertible with the Premium High (401A) Equipment Group and the GT Performance Package, a ten-speed automatic transmission with a 3.55 rear axle gearing, Rapid Red Metallic livery, and a black convertible top.

The most aggressive of the Super Snakes is the six-speed manual version, which can only be paired with the 3.73:1 differential. Shelby calculated the price of its latest performer, starting at a Base Chassis MSRP of $59,440 (basically, the cost of the standard GT Premium with the Performance Package will set back the buyer). On top of that, the Super Snake Package is $100,555. That’s some 40% over the Ford Mustang on which it is based and nearly three grand more than the most optioned GT Premium.

Honestly, the body style and transmission prices are the same as those charged by Ford for their GT versions, so that’s not technically part of the Shelby offer. The only true choice the customer has is to pick the colors. That’s not to say the Super Snake doesn’t pack a hefty customization punch.

What does the buyer get for 100,000 bucks? Performance-wise, an 830+ hp car (we’re still waiting on that dyno test, Shelby!) with a supercharger, an extreme cooling system with a radiator and a heat exchanger, Borla exhausts, performance half-shafts, a one-piece drive shaft (manual only), a short throw shifter (for the six-speed, clutch-pedal models), hardened extended wheel studs, a performance suspension system, 20” forged magnesium wheels, performance tires, and upgraded brake rotors.

All of the above is only the performance mechanical upgrades. Still, there’s a lot more going on with a Shelby Super Snake than just internals, like wicked body mods and interior assortments. The car is loaded from carbon fiber body elements to the aluminum hood and various aerodynamic add-ons. Each of the 250 units allotted to the US market will have two serialized plaques – one on the dash, the other on the engine – and several other Shelby trademarks hiding in plain sight.