Ford Mustang Steve McQueen Bullitt Edition
BLENDING INTO TRAFFIC ON AN ELEVATED section of the Nottingham ring road, I can’t help thinking that the roller-coaster streets of San Francisco – or anywhere warm, in fact – would be a better place to appreciate a car of this potential. That said, there was no way I was going to turn down an invitation to drive the UK’s one and only Steve McQueen Edition Bullitt Mustang… all 720bhp of it.
So here we are, treading warily on the cold, damp roads of middle England, willing the pale winter sun higher to warm and dry the glistening surface so that we can get at least one full-throttle sweep of the rev-counter. Yes, at evo we’re all about judging cars in the round but when one comes along with outrageous horsepower you’re not going to be satisfied until you’ve felt the full force at least once.
The Bullitt Mustang that is the basis of this Steve McQueen Edition has been around for a couple of years now. It trades on the appeal of
