Ford announced that the GT350 will be going away at the end of the year, and that’s sad. But Ford thinks it’s going to be sad in a sort of, Shane walking away from the ranch and into the sunset kind of way, rather than in a stolen-from-us kind of way.

The reason, according to Jim Owens, head of Mustang marketing, is that Ford has learned a lot from the GT350 program, and now...

Why Ford Thinks the Shelby GT350 Had to Go