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Photographer Devin Comiskey snapped some shots last week of a shipment of Shelby GT350-H Mustangs leaving the Shelby Autos facility in Last Vegas, NV. Comiskey reports that reps at Shelby told him the cars will be available for rent for $300/day plus $50/day insurance. Customers will be allowed 100 miles per day, and charged $0.25 per mile over that limit. Other security measures have reportedly been installed to prevent tampering with the engine and other components. In the 1970s, people were known to swap engines in and out of GT350 rentals, as well as weld roll cages to the chassis. The cars will see between 16,000 and 18,000 “rental” miles before they are sent back to Ford for distribution to selected dealers to sell to the general public. Like the original GT350-H, they post-rental vehicles are likely to sell for top dollar. Image gallery after the jump…
are there actually people who will buy off rental shelby mustangs? $100 a day and $50 for insurance?
can you say “lets beat on this stang and see if we can break anything”? i knew you could
Considering how much the original GT350-Hs are selling for now (well over $100,000), you can bet there is already a long line of people waiting to buy one.
That’s like paying top-dollar for a 40-year old stripper. Why would you want something that’s been run wild that much by a BUNCH of people? And why pay top dollar for it? And $300 a day? Jeesh, I rented a Ferrari in Vegas for $500, so not that much more for a lot sexier of a car.
does the H in 350-h stand for hybrid?
No. The H designates the model as a Hertz car.
dc - are you implying that buying one of these rode hard put away wet stangs will be a good investment?
if you had bought a late 60’s shelby and put it in a barn for the past 40 years or had taken the same money and put it in the bank you would have gotten a better return on the money in the bank.
and just because the “i have to have the first one on the block people” will pay stupid money for a car when it first becomes available for sale does not reflect on what the car will be worth years down the road - examples - new thunderbird and chevy ssr, sold for $20 grand over list when they were first available. now you can not give them away for under invoice.
Hey whitedog…it’s $300/ day. Unlucky.
look on the bright side:
1) the steering shaft won’t break. oh, yeah, LLN didn’t report that little 1 million worldwide Toyota recal for failed steering.
2) They won’t spontaniously combust like the 2006 Sentra’s and Altima’s.
Other than that, though, Fun for a day and a decent collectors item on resale… too bad Ford can’t capitalize on the used car market…
Chevrolet is planning the Malibu SS-H and Chrysler has the Sebring SRT-H. Basically they’re hoping to catch the leftover morons who are not able to buy used and abused rental Mustangs for top dollar and hope to put them in limited edition rental Malibus and Sebrings instead.
fords spontaneously combust as well they have been now for years lmao. Maybe they’ll luck out and have their tread separate on the highway too.
in any case.. Cash grab that will no doubt be successful..
hmmm, true, but fords have to be rear ended to explode…. the nissans just have to run.
And run any tire on any vehicle at 10psi below recomended (factory set the LT’s to 26psi to make it ride better) and you’ll have a blowout, ford or not.
RIght Hand Drive Volvo XC90s burst into flames as well. Another Ford product
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$300.00 a day plus $50.00 a day for insurance is very steep considering one can rent an exotic sports car for near the same price.(Locally here in Houston here are a few cars I would rent instead of the 350 GTH. The Dodge Viper SRT10 - $599.00 a day; Cadillac XLR - $399.00 a day; C6 Corvette Convertible $349.00 a day; Lotus Elise - $249.00 a day; 650Ci Convertible - $399.00 a day; a BMW Porsche Cayman - $399.00 a day or the Porsche Boxster S at $349.00 a day. And all of the cars listed give you the same amount of free miles, the insurance is less and they will not charge you the airport taxes. Not to mention with the $350.00 a day for the Mustang you must include the very high airport taxes(more than 26% at Houston airports) that go along with it. Ford would do great by renting regular Mustang G.T.’s at all major airports nationwide. There may be someone out there who is willing to rent the 350 GTH at that price, but I want be one of them. Whatever the marketing guru’s at Ford/Hertz are smoking, they should share.
-Chris
You dunderheads are completely missing the point. It is no wonder the topic took a sharp turn from the Shelby GT350H to male genitalia. What we are witnessing here, you bunch of closet homos,is history in the making. Anyone who does not believe that these cars will have a waiting list throughout their rental life, and then sell or auction for near six-figure amounts afterwards is a moron. Ford hit a grand slam home run with the new Mustang. Period. Other domestic automakers need to take note. The current generation of American muscle nostalgia seekers has money to burn, and burn it they will.
the good old days. when you could rent a hertz mustang for the weekend, take it home weld a rollcage in it take it to the drags and drive the crap out of it. i have ran into a few original hertz mustangs where you can pull the carpet op and find where the cage was welded in. long live the muscle car!!!!
I just drove in one of these Shelby Hertz Mustangs in Phoenix. Number 06H137 off the assembly line with 34 miles on the odometer. Hertz didn’t have our car ready when we arrived at the airport and they gave us the Shelby for $79/day that our Taurus would have been. The Shelby’s performance was definitely tested and I would imagine that most people who rent one have that exact intention. However, even if the car is driven hard, this car will be worth the money. Engines and tranny’s can be replaced. Ever seen what a 66 Hertz Shelby GT350 goes for? The 40th year anniversary of the Hertz Shelby “Rent-a-Racer” will be a collector with only around 500 being produced.
I would kill to rent one of these cars. They are awesome, and a great buy for an american classic. If your in to humping Imports, not my prob, but If you would rather see a better economy, buy american
I rented this weekend in San Francisco for $190 a day plus insurance. Ran it into the ground, had a blast. Just gotta say… Thank god it was a “rental”. My only dissapointment was that they disabled the traction conrtrol.
I don’t see how these cars will be as desirable or collectible as the 60’s models…those cars were true Shelbys…modded suspensions, engines, guages…not to mention the scoops and stripes. These cars are nothing more than Mustang GT’s with stripes and some lettes on them. It they were upgraded like by Shelby in such a way as Saleen does to these cars, maybe I could understand, but they’re just cleverly stickered Mustangs….big deal.
Glad someone brought the postings back to the theme at hand, The Shelby GT-H is a great car and with only 500 units built they must sell for a premium. I just test drove one at the Las Vegas Speedway, outstanding upgrades by the Shelby team,performed like a real old fashion muscle car. Pay the rental price and drive it you won’t regret it and since most of us won’t be able to afford them when they are sold at least you’ll know you drove it before the guy who paid the premium did : - )
Well if you wonder if its working or not…
Just go to Hertz’ website…every location these cars are available are already rented through August of 07′
What do you want to bet Hertz will start offering all kinds of tuner type cars for rental in the future.
I’ve driven this car two times, once in Los Angeles, once in Vegas. For those of you who don’t know, the cars have extensive modification very similar in scope to the original Shelbys of the 60’s. Several new articles on the car report and my experience with the car was of performance that certainly exceeds the original. there are only 500 ever to be made and rented. Shelby did the mods. He is 83. Do the math. Several of you may want to learn about Shelby the man and you will see why his involvement adds so much to the value. I own an SRT8 Chrysler. It is a fantastic car. It is no Shelby.
The most disappointing thing–from multiple renters, is Hertz disabled the traction control OFF button. The pictures of drifting around corners and doing burn outs that appear in Motortrend are because their Shelby demonstrator was not a Hertz rental with TCH deactivated. The articles does say for rental cars “the TCH disable function has been …disabled”. It had to be something both simple to do, and simple to undo. There is a blog site that tells the whole story: http://hertzshelbytchon.blogstream.com/
I’ve read lots of forums, on multiple “Mustang oriented” web sites, and there are multiple posts asking, questioning, and making guesses about how to “enable TCH OFF”. One such post says to pull a anti-lock brake module out!!! Good grief, rent a high perfomance car and disable a wonderful brake system?
It looks as though Hertz/Shelby didn’t realize that 1) almost everyone that wants to rent a Shelby is a car guy, 2) those car guys want TCH OFF, 3) there are no limits to what great lengths some of these people will go to in order to get TCH off!! 4) these same renters are of varying IQ’s and mechanical abilities…….so it’s obvious the best thing to do, is not worry about the tire wear, leave the car in the configuration in which FORD BUILT IT, and then not worry about some block-head disabling brake components, crashing the car, and killing people. Just rent the car as it was built, ay?
Since they didn’t choose to do that, then go to the blog, take a minute (That’s all it takes) and enable the TCH off button (it’s simple and undetectable, and NO they can’t check!) Drive the car the way it was built by the factory, and then take another minute before you turn it back in to restore it to the “Hertz no fun” mode. No one knows, they’re happy, you’re happy, it’s a win win situation. If they keep leaving it up to guessing and continue with the image that it’s some big mystery and you’ll get in big trouble… someone is going to screw the brakes up trying to get the damn thing to get out of TCH ON mode …
iM RENTIN’ A GTH FOR 134$ A DAY IN SAN DIEGO, VVVVRRRROOOOMMMM. tHE TCH IS EASY TO REMOVE AND HAVE A HELL OF A TIME, iNSURANCE? YAHH
I would like to know if the 2007 GT350 has come out and if not when and if it ever will? And if it will be brought out in the 2007 model what will it cost?
For whatever it’s worth, I just reserved one for my Dad’s Birthday out of Cleveland Airport next month, and with taxes, unlimited mileage, and everything else, it comes to about $175.00 for the day, out the door. Not a bad pricetag for what I sure is going to be a really fun experience. With only 500 out there, and being so expensive, not many people on my block will be able to say that they ever had the opportunity to drive one.
I logged into Hertz looking for a “fun” car for the week for an upcoming trip to Orlando. Not looking for this car (forgot it was out there) and found it was available for $419/week. Cool, I thought, got the wifeal unit fired up on the concept, the logged in with my Hertz #1 Gold account and it was, ahem, $359++ for the week. We’re stoked.
Just rented one in Portland and I dropped it off with a smile! $144, plus taxes and I also paid the insurance. I had 3 hours to blow due to flight cancellation and was going to rent a Grand Prix from Alamo!! I was walking to find the Alamo desk and saw one sitting there! My father won the last A-Sedan National Championship in 1979 with his 1970 Boss 302 Mustang and needless to say, I am a Mustang fan! The car was fast, handled great, generated quite a bit of interest from the public. I don’t see anything but positives when experiencing this! Oh, a WS6 Trans Am decided to challenge me……. Wasn’t much of a Challenge!
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