If you've ever been to a drag strip, a couple of things will be familiar to the senses: the acrid tang of race fuel and the ear-shattering scream of race engines.
But with Ford's newest dragster prototype, the all-electric Mustang Cobra Jet 1400, you won't have to suffer through any of that. It won't use a drop of fuel and will be almost entirely silent on its runs.
"Cobra Jet" isn't just a name Ford pulled out of a random text generator, either. It's an homage to the original Cobra Jet dragsters from the late 1960s, with the original FE 428-cubic-inch V8-powered Cobra Jet built in 1968. The Cobra Jet lineage was reborn in the late 2000s, and Ford celebrated the 50th anniversary of it with a special edition Mustang dragster in 2018.
The Cobra Jet 1400 uses battery power, is purpose built, and is estimated to put out more than 1,400 horsepower and 1,100 pound-feet of torque, according to a Ford press release. Making massive amounts of power is typical for drag cars because the whole objective is to have the most straight-line speed from the starting line to the finish.
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