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Why Ford, why the muscle?
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by YankeeJim | November 15, 2011 at 12:36 pm
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Fast guzzling vehicles are out, didn’t you get the word? OK, there remains a niche market somewhere, but the Top Gear guys are going to eat your lunch. It appears the same as the old Mustang Shelby’s.
The State Highway Patrol will be waiting for you with nail strips.
“Ford To Unveil High-Powered Shelby Mustang
Manufacturing.Net - November 15, 2011
DETROIT (AP) -- The Detroit muscle car horsepower race escalated Tuesday when Ford Motor Co. announced that the 2013 Shelby GT500 Mustang will have a 650-horsepower V-8 engine.
The company will unveil the GT500 and a freshened version of the regular Mustang on Tuesday night at the Los Angeles Auto Show. Ford says the Shelby version will have the most powerful production V-8 engine in the world, with a top speed of over 200 mph.
The 5.8-liter engine is mated with a six-speed automatic transmission. Ford wouldn't release the gas mileage but said it would be good enough to avoid the U.S. tax on gas guzzlers.
The GT500 beats the most powerful model put out by rival General Motors Co. by 12 horsepower. The Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1 is rated at 638 horsepower.
Ford also will unveil the freshened 2013 Mustang, which comes with more aggressive styling and new LED lighting to give it a high-tech look, the company said.”
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at 13:47 on November 15th, 2011
http://jalopnik.com/2013-shelby-gt500/
Of interest:
The 2013 Boss 302 Mustang ( Sweet ! )
at 14:46 on November 15th, 2011
As long as they are simultaneously developing and marketing lines of vehicles with high performance/increased efficiency such as the ecoboost V6:
http://mustangs.about.com/od/modelyearprofiles/a/ecoboost-ford.htm
They can put jet engines in their niche lines for all I care. Cars like the Shelby or ZR-1 aren't being driven much anyway, they're bought by rich guys, garaged for a dozen years and sold as collector's items with a few thousand miles when they tire of them. These manufacturers use them as flagships for bragging rights but the technologies they develop along the way trickles down to the rest of their offerings.
Face it, you're just envious you can't have one and the gas card to keep the tank full. You aren't the only one.
I agree with the highway patrol thing, in my wilder days my driver's license never lasted long with the string of high performance cars and motorcycles owned, when I see things like the new Kawasaki ZX-14r with 190 rwhp, I'm thinking who the hell needs that on the street? Roll on from 20-65 mph is probably like 1.5 seconds if you can hang on.
Full throttle to the funeral!
(how many youtube clips are there of people getting maimed on bikes when cars pull out or turn in front of the cyclist? well guess what, it's not the car's fault when you're doing 80 in a 35 and reduced his decision time to nil)
at 15:13 on November 15th, 2011
2014 Chevy Corvette ZR1 ( unbelievable ! ) I want one !
at 04:04 on November 18th, 2011
Thanks for the scoop. Interesting to read the text how they compare it to the Ferrari and Lamborghini... beautiful though perhaps for the first time you can say it looks derivitive. (of some of Ferrari's offerings, including the Testarossa and newer models.)
I still have my black '86 Z51 coupe sitting in my driveway under 2 covers, bought in 1987. It needs more work than my back or wallet can tolerate to run (at least reliably) again.
This was it when I had the seats redone and completed the stereo I competed with in IASCA for a couple years:
http://i353.photobucket.com/albums/r384/batvette/corvette%20IASCA/batvette4.jpg
http://i353.photobucket.com/albums/r384/batvette/corvette%20IASCA/batvette1.jpg
a few more pictures and some of a far more interesting vehicle I owned for four years:
http://s353.photobucket.com/albums/r384/batvette/corvette%20IASCA/
(the thing on top of the hearse is for appearances a coffin, but it allowed people to stand up and dance on a disco dance floor in back- parquet tiles and chasing LEDs on the floor, fog and bubble machines, and there was neon under all the plastic bubbles outside)
I joke to some of my friends I won't sell the corvette otherwise I'd be a pretender continuing to use the batvette handle online. LOL.
at 16:14 on November 15th, 2011
You are exactly right, I am envious.