New Mustang GT500
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- groog0
Although the idea of a new, certified Shelby is bitchin, I'm really disappointed in Ford styling. The top 1/2 of the front grill flares out so much that it pushes the headlights out to fisheye, google-eye proportions.
Then the shoulders and back end are so high that they have to crop the fashion shots so the ground plane slopes up at the front. I understand the design criteria the sylists are facing, having to include a trunk that fits 600 bags of golf clubs and a large Coleman cooler full of light beer, but where are the clean lines of say, the Mini?
The pervasive large American rear (people, cars, whatever) and all these blocky wheel arch flares are taking over Chrysler cars too (not that they've had a decent body style for 1/2 a century now). Maybe it appeals to the middle-aged market here, like the dork in his 'Hemi" with the 'Hemi8' license tag I saw shoot out from a stoplight yesterday.
Meanwhile, Ford-Lincoln Mercury had Detomaso styling for a nanosecond in the early Pantera, and developed the GT40. They shoulda stuck to it instead of putting all their money into the Explorer.
*whew*
- smrz0
Damn - that shit is hot
and I'm a Corvette fan
but I've always loved the Shelby - you guys remember Eleanor from Gone in 60 Seconds?
Here's the new one - and Nicholas Cage:
475 HP - wow.
still can't beat a Z06 though!
- groog0
Here's the new one - and Nicholas Cage:
a332.g.akamai.net/f/33... [jpg]-------------
Nick Cage got old
- smrz0
Yeah he did. Old bastard.
But really, I think that's Carroll Shelby.
I don't know what the F you're talking about. That car's lines are as clean as an F-16, and it looks like a MUSCLE CAR. Not supposed to look like a TT. I dare any foreign car to take that shit on. I hate the Fast & the Furious for this european muscle car bullshit. Fuck.
- smrz0
Here's the inspiration for the new stang...
Big back end and all...
groog
(Apr 11 06, 07:12)OK - you have to leave this thread. That's a '70 Boss 302. Nothing like a Shelby GT500 w/a 428 - 1967.
- twoismtwoism0
I like how the emblem isnt in the center havnt seen that done in any other car...
- Caligula0
Everytime I think of Mustangs I think of that movie with the Irish rock band. That shit sucked and there was this fat guy with a ponytail and bad teeth sweating and singing "mustang sally". that shit was gross.
it fucked up the whole mustang brand for me. like when ET ate the reeses pieces off the floor. that mother fucker looked like a leper with HIV and I was scared that if I ate reeses pieces, maybe he touched them.
- joyride0
I like the GT500. But i'm guessing its the same motor that going in the svt cobra. they are rating it at 475 hp. Which is very conservative. They are putting out 450-470 rwHP. So the motor is more like 515+. The new Z06 is rated at what 505 hp or something. So the motors are pretty comparable. It would come down to weight and driver. BTW, my friends shop did the New Elanor with chip foose and they did developement work on the z06.
- groog0
Right on, Caligula.
I'm not leavin' anywhere btw.
What I'm implying with that lame 70 'Boss" Mustang is that Ford has been in the process of imploding, like, forever. 475 hp or not.
It's like the pumped up dude at the gym in the red white and blue Rex's Dojo roundhouse pants, Oakleys, and a bandana
- Caligula0
My grandmother got hit by a mustang. Three years ago this Easter. One of my easter eggs rolled into the street.
we miss you grandma
- Mimio0
I agree with groog for the most part. The concept version of this car just 'stood better' on it's wheels than the production version. Amazing that they can do that with a price point car like the Fusion or the Edge but totally miss it with a Mustang. Also, where's the Windveil Blue paintjob like the 67?
- Caligula0
I agree with groog for the most part.
Mimio
(Apr 11 06, 07:31)That's because you're an idiot.
- groog0
This is what I was looking for
http://www.barrett-jackson.com/a…
Looks pretty tuff. Probly hauls ass
(munching on Reeses Pcs)
- Mimio0
Caligula you've got all kinds of love and no place to put it, don't you?
No it's not welcome there either.
- Caligula0
No it's not welcome there either.
Mimio
(Apr 11 06, 07:39)I'll pick you up over my head and throw you down a flight of stairs the next time you talk to me like this.
- groog0
We call him Cal, the friendly backseat agnosticator.
Now THIS is a clean design effort
http://www.barrett-jackson.com/a…
albeit, another red paintjob mistake
- groog0
"I'll pick you up over my head and throw you down a flight of stairs the next time you talk to me like this."
_________
You saw that on the Exorcist!
What would Satan Drive?
- Caligula0
i'm sorry to be pissing on everyone's candle today. i just get upset around this time of the year. everytime i walk past the dining room i look into that glass case and i see grandma's dead body and it kills a little piece of me.
- groog0
Granny's ride: