Not only weight but size; Mustang looks great in those pictures as in most of the studio pics... But when you walk up to it, or pull up to it at a light its huge and brickish...

I really hope GM isn't pulling that same trick with silver paint and studio lighting...

 

I think the Mustang looks rather compact, actually. I had a V6 for a rental car for a week, and it certainly feels kinda intimate (and smaller) relative to my 4th gen.

The GT500 versions probably look a little heftier visually with different ground effects and hood, I suppose (if they are different).

 

ya know I was thinking the same thing recently.lets hope some rich daddy dosen't buy something like this for his 17 year old kid.Like having a machine gun instead of a pistol.

 

lol@ His engineer comment in the video

 

When he is talking about taking out the back seat was refering to when they did it 40 years ago to turn the secretaries car into a sports car. Also this is why he says after

"Lets change the brakes, change the suspension and take the rear seats out and lets turn it into a sports car I was proud of the Hot Rodders that put it together because we did take something that was a secretaries car and turn into something that is remembered 45 years later as a performance car rather than a secretaries car."

I may be a Camaro fan but Carrol Shelby is the man!

 

 

540hp??I would have thought that shelby would have gone to at least 600 for the KR.

 

Ford has a habbit of just slapping a new hood on a car (with minor modifications) and calling it different. They have done many times and will keep doing it with this Mustang.
It is OK though, because image is what sells cars. (I'd still take a GT500 if I had the money though )

 

Shelby must have lost a lot of money lately considering this is what, the second or third Shelby Mustang in the last couple years?

 

Worked for the SS Z/28

 

Well, even though it wasn't official, the late model SSs were considered the luxury models (packed with options). But yes, you are right. And yes, it will be different for the 5th gen.

 

Find me any GM literature that states than the SSs were luxury models. They may have been packed with options, but there were also supposedly packed with more horsepower, and better supsension pieces and tires.


I could also buy an SS for $4k over the price of a z28, and buying all of the SS pieces to fit to a z28 would probably come close to the price of just buying the SS. Something tells me this Mustang is going to demand an outrageous premium over its base car interpretation, something Ford seems to be doing for all of their "special edition" Mustangs.

 

A really heavy, overweight machine gun.

 

Well if the market is any indicator, then you really can't blame them. If scads of people run down to the local Ford dealer for a 50k mark up on 40 horsepower with a check in hand then that just tells Ford that thier car is worth the mark up. It sucks, but what can you do?

Reminds me of when I picked up my 07 GT this last december and asked what the dealership was charging for a GT500, the salesman told me 65k but if you had spent alot of money with them (his example a contractor who bought all of his trucks from them) would net you paltry 4,000 dollars off that price. I told'em see you in 08 or 09 when the F5 and Challengers hit the road and the Shelbys will be collecting dust (well not really seeing as how it will probably be '11 or 12'), but I digress, everybody could do something stupid like the great not buy a Ford internetathon or just wait till the hot stuff from Ford is old hat and becomes a bargin (that is if your a mustang man, if your a Camaro or Challenger guy then you just gotta deal with the devil)

 

Yeah not a pretty picture - and just think, with a wrench and a pulley they will be able to up the power by 10 or 15% easy.