Shelby Cobra GT-500 pics

**JohnC** · 03-23-2005, 03:09 PM

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.racergarage.com/shelbyGT500/">http://www.racergarage.com/shelbyGT500/</a>

Sweet Jesus...

***ViPER1313*** · 03-23-2005, 03:28 PM

Hotness with hot sauce on top :!:

Dave · 03-23-2005, 03:38 PM

lord have mercy. Car is damn fine, but needs some new rims on that beast. Regardless, I want one.

Dragon · 03-23-2005, 03:42 PM

Dude, I think I filled the cup </jay>

Evan · 03-23-2005, 03:58 PM

looks hot, but I dont see any reason why it should carry the Shelby name. Its really just a cobra

Ginger · 03-23-2005, 04:31 PM

Evan Wrote:looks hot, but I dont see any reason why it should carry the Shelby name. Its really just a cobra

Yeah, I think what Ford did to Carrol Shelby is kind of dirty.

Evan · 03-23-2005, 05:04 PM

what they "did" to him? :lol:

He put his name on the dotted line, son.

same thing he did in the 80s with Dodge

Andy · 03-23-2005, 05:24 PM

Evan Wrote:looks hot, but I dont see any reason why it should carry the Shelby name. Its really just a cobra

agreed

white_2kgt · 03-23-2005, 05:27 PM

asteele2 Wrote:
Evan Wrote:looks hot, but I dont see any reason why it should carry the Shelby name. Its really just a cobra

Yeah, I think what Ford did to Carrol Shelby is kind of dirty.

what? paying him a gozillion dollars to return to ford?

--chad

WRXtranceformed · 03-23-2005, 06:56 PM

Maybe that's what I should trade up for ! heh

450 hp mmmmmmmm

Guaranteed my insurance would rape me even harder on that car.

Feersty · 03-23-2005, 08:24 PM

The gauges are hot as hell.

**JustinG** · 03-23-2005, 10:23 PM

i agree the gauges lok nice but seem as if they are gonna be a little hard to read during daytime unless they always light up like that. Also its not a shelby......its an SVT like stated earlier but he did put hsi name on the line. I love the retro styling. Best looking mustang since the 60s-70s era. but, its still a ford and im assuming slightly over priced???? I wonder what the curb weight is on that beast????? smartest thing ford could do is bring that 280hp AWD focus over here from europe.

**JohnC** · 03-23-2005, 11:30 PM

white97dsm Wrote:but, its still a ford and im assuming slightly over priced????

450 hp for 40k is a performance bargain.

NTIman · 03-23-2005, 11:44 PM

Sign me up for that one!!

Evan · 03-24-2005, 12:02 AM

JohnC Wrote:450 hp for 40k is a performance bargain.

eh...for just a little more and you are in a C6 that is a far superior vehicle

**JohnC** · 03-24-2005, 12:50 AM

Evan Wrote:
JohnC Wrote:450 hp for 40k is a performance bargain.
eh...for just a little more and you are in a C6 that is a far superior vehicle

Good point.

**G.Irish** · 03-24-2005, 12:55 AM

Yeah but the C6 is the number one performance value in the world. Other than that car this car is in good company.

**JustinG** · 03-24-2005, 01:31 AM

i guess im just one who sees paying 30 for an EVO or STi and then taking the 10g saved and putting it in the EVO or STi. Or just paying for a cheaper car and making it just as fast if not faster. It is a nice car though dotn get me wrong. Your just buying it for the status. no one cares if you say you have a well known car(DSM, HONDA,240) pushing X amt of HP, but you say your driving a Shelby mustang/corvette/ferrari you turn heads.

ScottyB · 03-24-2005, 01:44 AM

white97dsm Wrote:you say your driving a Shelby mustang/corvette/ferrari you turn heads.

that's half the point IMO. of course any car can be balls fast if you put X amount of money into it, but alot of cars these days are simply status objects for the average joe who has dough.

**G.Irish** · 03-24-2005, 02:27 AM

The argument that you can buy an Evo, STi, Civic, Hyundai Elantra or whatever car and spend the gap in money and end up faster than whichever car is rather spurious. A given manufacturer has to build a vehicle to last and they must make it somewhat livable on the street. An owner doesn't have those constraints. So you could buy an Evo, slap some moton shocks and Hoosiers on, and add some more b00st and go walk on Vettes but there is no way Mitsu could sell the car like that from the factory. Is this modified car going to last 150k miles? Are the 1000lbs springs going to rupture my kidneys? Am I going to have to go through a bunch of crap with emissions?

Then there's the engineering that goes into the car. Unless you significantly reengineer the chassis (seam weld, or whatever), the Evo's chassis is never going to be equal to even the C5 Vette's chassis. And I'm willing to bet that the Vette's engine has more ultimate potential than the Evo's turbocharged 2.0L. Care to race a Lingenfelter Vette? I'm interested in seeing if a World Challenge GT Evo could hang with the Vettes and Vipers in the series. My hunch is no (which is why there aren't any out racing right now) unless the cars get a lot of help (stroker motors, very low minimum weight, larger turbos).

A more fair comparison would be to see how much more performance $10k on top of the purchase price of the car would get you. Or $20k, or whatever amount.

Do I think if Mitsubishi offered a $45000 Evo that it could beat a Vette? Possibly, especially since the Evo is designed to be a bit more of a hardcore car. Maybe if a few manufacturers sat down and decided that they'd all try to build the best car for the money at a certain price point we'd know the answer. There's a comparo I'd like to see.

Now don't get me wrong. The majority of people who buy fast, big name sports cars are in fact buying it for the status symbol. But even if they were not, the modified vs. stock comparison still isn't fair. I dunno, maybe that's the allure of modifying cars in the first place. You're making the car the automotive beancounters didn't have the balls to make. You're making the car perform as well as some of its designer might have, if they were hamstrung by the realities of the market. Maybe you're putting the engine in the car it should have had in the first place (Elise with K20A?). Perhaps there's something noble in that.

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