Car and Driver has tested the new GT500 and they seemed to really like it. Ford is sticking to their promise of delivering this beast for under $40K, they say between $35-$39K and C&D estimates a base price of $39K. Official numbers still arent in but its at least 450hp/450tq Best bang for the buck without question

Performance times:
0-60mph-4.0
Quarter mile-12.5@116mph

 

like the C5 Z06, not bad. they would look pretty awesome with a monochromatic paint scheme and different wheels

 

Thats not bad at all. Defenetly out of my price range but it looks like it would run with a C6 no problem.

 

put a cam in a 300c srt-8 and it will run with that car.

 

who cares? the SRT-8 is more expensive anyways

 

The SRT-8 is a land yatch. This thing is bad-***!
GM ar eyou listening?

 

Put a pulley on the GT500 and it'll be faster, then do this to the SRT 8, then that to the GT500... and so on.

 

Faaaaaag

 

That thing could go a lot faster I think. Some things not mentioned, this thing is on 255 tires. The production version will have 285's. They said there was no traction with almost 500 horsepower, and crappy 255 tires. So there would be a massive improvement there. Don't forget that Car and Driver can't drive worth a crap. These people drive C5's to high 13's, lt1's to mid 14's

Depending on how this thing hooks up with the newer tires, i think they could knock a good few tenths off.

The only downfall of this car, imo, is that it is weighs like over 3800 lbs.

I don't know how other people feel, but i wouldn't be suprised to see a good driver like evan smith or somthing to drive this thing to High elevens, on a great day, with traction.

 

Lets just hope GM revisits history and brings out a competitor to the Mustang like they had to back in the mid 60's. The better the Mustang does, the more it will show GM the market is there. But then again GM just seems to be King Midas in reverse lately.

 

They'll likely respond the same way they did to the Lightening.. :blah:

 

I plan on buying one.

 

I could sell both my GM products and get one.... tempting... veeeeerrrrry tempting...

 

...Common man, its just box. There's no need to get stressed out...you can leave the computer any time you want to. :blah:

 

Why are all you guys saying that it's "not bad". Trapping 116 in a production car for less than $40k? That's amazing. I give Ford a , and that's hard for me to do since I'm a die hard GM guy.

Dan