When Ford lifted the veil on the 2013 Shelby GT500, they turned the American muscle car world on its head by bumping horsepower to 650 ponies and claiming a top speed of over 200 MPH. While the first Shelbys have yet to be sold, the numbers Ford is claiming are enough to propel the 2013 GT500 out of the muscle car classification, and into the world of high-horsepower exotics.

Don’t believe us? Car & Driver put together a chart (that you’ll have to see on their website) tracking the horsepower improvements of muscle cars and European exotics over the last 20 years. Guess where the 2013 GT500 falls?

The chart goes all the way back to 1990 and tracks the horsepower output of a number of American and European performance cars. This includes the Chevy Corvette and Camaro, the Dodge Viper, Ferrari and Lamborghini V-12 vehicles, the BMW M3, Dodge Viper, and the humble Ford Mustang. The chart tracks an obvious increase in horsepower across all cars in brands.

But the thing is that the Shelby GT500 has slowly but surely left the American competition behind. The 650 horsepower GT500 has more horsepower than the last Dodge Viper, the Corvette ZR1, and even cars like the BMW M3 and Porsche 911 Turbo have fallen behind the GT500, and is nipping at the heels of cars thrice as expensive from the horse and bull brands.

With that in mind, we think it’s safe to say that the 2013 Shelby GT500 is officially an American supercar.