Do we think a 900-plus-horsepower Shelby Mustang rental is a good idea? Nope. Do we want one on our next vacation? Absolutely!
The coolest rental car partnership in the world is back. Shelby American and Hertz are once again building a special run of Shelby Mustang cars. The 2022 GT500-H cars are even more outrageous than ever.
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These 900-plus-horsepower Mustangs will be available for almost anyone with a credit card and a driver’s license to rent in select tourist hotspots. Hertz will also offer Shelby cars with more rational power levels in a handful of other prominent destinations to help spread the go-fast love.
Rent-A-Racer Story Started in 1966
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Hertz and Shelby American got together for the first time in 1966. Shelby built around 1,000 GT350-H cars for Hertz Rent-A-Car. Called the Rent-A-Racer program, lucky (and daring) renters took the vehicles to drag strips and road courses on the weekend. Stories of engines “borrowed” to be put in a racer for the weekend or outright stolen to go in a lesser V8 Mustang will never disappear, and the cars are now worth a fortune.
Shelby and Hertz built more cars in 2006, 2007, and 2016, but none of them was as extreme as the original. And they can’t hold a candle to this new car.
900 Wheel Horsepower
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Shelby Badges, Wheels, and More
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More Accessible Cars Offered in the Program
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