2008 Ford Mustang Shelby Cobra GT500KR revealed

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: kevman

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[shilala]

I've never been tickled by the Mustand brand. Don't know why. The new Challenger stokes my nuts big time.

 

[classy]

It looks cool and it will perform well for the money, but those stangs are just to heavy. And the bumps in power and torque won't mean too much at all in the performance dept.

 

[fstime]

20 in rims, not digging that.

It will probably be priced near the Z06's price, dunno about that either.

 

[classy]

Originally posted by: BouZouki
20 in rims, not digging that.

It will probably be priced near the Z06's price, dunno about that either.

I sure hope not, because the Z06 is in a league way beyond the mustang.

 

[overst33r]

Originally posted by: jamesbond007

Originally posted by: mariok2006

Originally posted by: Ronstang

Originally posted by: Conky

Originally posted by: Ronstang
I still prefer the original ones. My step daughter keeps saying she is going to get one and I keep telling her to be patient as her and her husband will have one worth a lot more some day.

New Cobras own the old ones in every way imaginable. I love old musclecars but todays new musclecars are much better... and they don't leave oil stains on your driveway.

I didn't make a judgment on which one was better, I merely said that I prefer the old ones. I am quite aware of the capability of newer muscle car as I have modified quite a few. Why do you think my 66 Fastback is a not a restoration as it has EFI and 5 speed and many other modern features.

If you want to really talk about COBRAS then the original 1967 AC Cobra with the 427 is still hard to beat with a new car performance car. I don't know many cars that can go 0-100-0 in 13 seconds.

Cheapest car I am aware of is the Caterham R500 Evo which does 0-100-0 in 10.7s. Then comes the Ariel and the Ultima GTR which is the current record holder at 9.4 seconds. For reference, the mighty Veyron does it in 9.9s.

So 0-100mph, the Aston Martin V12 Vanquish S (my all-time favorite car) would be on par with the Veyron? Sick!

Aston Martin V12 Vanqish S

Um, no it wouldn't it would be on par with the Veyron's 0-100-0 time, which takes into account the halting of 4200lbs, I think my Corolla can out brake the Veyron.

 

[Safeway]

That car is pretty ... but I still prefer the original. It just looks meaner.

 

[AnonymouseUser]

Thanks for the link. The Nismo 350Z looks sweet!

 

[overst33r]

Originally posted by: AnonymouseUser
Thanks for the link. The Nismo 350Z looks sweet!

I'm surprised no one has complained about the links being the same...and not linking to the pictures.

 

[AnonymouseUser]

Originally posted by: mariok2006

Originally posted by: AnonymouseUser
Thanks for the link. The Nismo 350Z looks sweet!

I'm surprised no one has complained about the links being the same...and not linking to the pictures.

The site must not allow direct linking to photos. For example, this won't work but this will. Both point to the same picture. Once the photo is in your cache both links work fine.

 

[iversonyin]

Originally posted by: AnonymouseUser
Thanks for the link. The Nismo 350Z looks sweet!

Not feeling that ugly spoiler. And red doesn't look good on the Z. I <3 a all black Z

 

[kevman]

Originally posted by: AnonymouseUser

Originally posted by: mariok2006

Originally posted by: AnonymouseUser
Thanks for the link. The Nismo 350Z looks sweet!

I'm surprised no one has complained about the links being the same...and not linking to the pictures.

The site must not allow direct linking to photos. For example, this won't work but this will. Both point to the same picture. Once the photo is in your cache both links work fine.

both seem to work for me ok, strange...

 

[jamesbond007]

Originally posted by: DaTT

Originally posted by: jamesbond007

Originally posted by: mariok2006

Originally posted by: Ronstang

Originally posted by: Conky

Originally posted by: Ronstang
I still prefer the original ones. My step daughter keeps saying she is going to get one and I keep telling her to be patient as her and her husband will have one worth a lot more some day.

New Cobras own the old ones in every way imaginable. I love old musclecars but todays new musclecars are much better... and they don't leave oil stains on your driveway.

I didn't make a judgment on which one was better, I merely said that I prefer the old ones. I am quite aware of the capability of newer muscle car as I have modified quite a few. Why do you think my 66 Fastback is a not a restoration as it has EFI and 5 speed and many other modern features.

If you want to really talk about COBRAS then the original 1967 AC Cobra with the 427 is still hard to beat with a new car performance car. I don't know many cars that can go 0-100-0 in 13 seconds.

Cheapest car I am aware of is the Caterham R500 Evo which does 0-100-0 in 10.7s. Then comes the Ariel and the Ultima GTR which is the current record holder at 9.4 seconds. For reference, the mighty Veyron does it in 9.9s.

So 0-100mph, the Aston Martin V12 Vanquish S (my all-time favorite car) would be on par with the Veyron? Sick!

Aston Martin V12 Vanqish S

No...the veyron is 0-100-0 in 9.9

Oh sh!t! That's really REALLY sick! I hope no one eats before trying to prove that time. I knew there had to be something I was missing... ~$225,000 car versus 1.2 million...

 

[clamum]

I'd love to have one of those. Or the older one (the car from "Gone in 60 Seconds")... so fvckin sexy.

 

[SVT Cobra]

I'll be getting one.

BTW it will not have 20 inch wheels...that is just the show car.

 

[Fenixgoon]

Originally posted by: SVT Cobra
I'll be getting one.

BTW it will not have 20 inch wheels...that is just the show car.

orly?

 

[SVT Cobra]

Originally posted by: Fenixgoon

Originally posted by: SVT Cobra
I'll be getting one.

BTW it will not have 20 inch wheels...that is just the show car.

orly?

Of course it will have FR500's.

 

[Fenixgoon]

Originally posted by: SVT Cobra

Originally posted by: Fenixgoon

Originally posted by: SVT Cobra
I'll be getting one.

BTW it will not have 20 inch wheels...that is just the show car.

orly?

Of course it will have FR500's.

you are a lucky man

edit: why didnt you pull the trigger on a shelbygt500 when they debuted, then? i know the stealership markup was insane.. but wont this suffer just as much, if not worse?

 

[shabby]

Originally posted by: Christobevii3
Weighs more than a fat cow.

I'll bet this one tips the scales past 4000lbs.

 

[JasonCoder]

So essentially they got a custom tune and added a CAI to produce 540HP? That's sick. People... don't feel the pressure to lay down $90k+ just to have a cobra/SVT badge on your car. Buy a stock GT and mod from there. Yes SVT, Shelby, etc. make nice mods but so can you.

 

[Gunslinger08]

Originally posted by: JasonCoder
So essentially they got a custom tune and added a CAI to produce 540HP? That's sick. People... don't feel the pressure to lay down $90k+ just to have a cobra/SVT badge on your car. Buy a stock GT and mod from there. Yes SVT, Shelby, etc. make nice mods but so can you.

With bolt ons you can probably add 40 HP to the stock GT. With a supercharger, probably close to 500 HP, but you'll also need to replace quite a few things and probably get some forged internals. So you can probably get 500 HP for GT base price + $10k if you install everything yourself. I paid around $30k for my fully upgraded GT, so $40k total would give me something similar to the performance of a Shelby, minus the appearance mods.

 

[lobbyone]

sweet car :thumbsup:

 

[iversonyin]

Originally posted by: JasonCoder
So essentially they got a custom tune and added a CAI to produce 540HP? That's sick. People... don't feel the pressure to lay down $90k+ just to have a cobra/SVT badge on your car. Buy a stock GT and mod from there. Yes SVT, Shelby, etc. make nice mods but so can you.

I like Rouch Mustang better.

 

[FallenHero]

Still waiting to see the challenger production model...

 

[SVT Cobra]

Originally posted by: Fenixgoon

Originally posted by: SVT Cobra

Originally posted by: Fenixgoon

Originally posted by: SVT Cobra
I'll be getting one.

BTW it will not have 20 inch wheels...that is just the show car.

orly?

Of course it will have FR500's.

you are a lucky man

edit: why didnt you pull the trigger on a shelbygt500 when they debuted, then? i know the stealership markup was insane.. but wont this suffer just as much, if not worse?

I did not pull the trigger because I was waiting for the release of the Boss 302 in 2009, but alas they canceled the plans for it, and are putting the engine in later cars.