Comments on: Dyno time with the Shelby Mustang GT500

By: Ramon

Ramon — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 19:59:32 +0000

I´m living in Germany in Munich the city with the most Porsche´s worldwide. Work on BMW and drive a Mini Cooper S. You can see daily Alpinas, AMG´s and so on. And I even could ride a donkey instead of this cars, it wouldn´t matter to me. But since the first time I saw the Mustang Prototype I was hoping for an musclecar like the Shelby(year before I was thinking on the saleen). I will do everything to get one, is not so easy, but I will get one. No one of the cars here in europe has the Soul the Shelby has. I can drive a 500$ dollar car for the daily things I have to do, but I really want this car in my garage.

By: S

Thu, 24 Aug 2006 21:37:18 +0000

Sounds like alot of misinformed uneducated people may be a little jealous.Try it before you knock it.

By: Fatstrat

Fatstrat — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 14:50:19 +0000

The current race version is doing pretty well on the road courses as well.
Most of you detractors have no idea what you are talking about and wouldnt know ‘technology’ if it jumped up and bit you in the a$$.

By: danny

danny — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 23:37:51 +0000

i took delivery of a gt500 about 2 weeks ago. i just sold a porsche 911 x50 stage 4 with 560 horsepower. the gt is as fast as the porsche, but it is close, but it will blow the doors of any c6 i have driven or ridden in. the cars rides great and handles great. those tests in the magazines must have been done with a detuned engine. just wait til you can to try one out, awesome!!!

By: dubbedinenglish

dubbedinenglish — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:35:14 +0000

Rover 700ft slalom mph times are higher than 600ft.

The cooper s with sport tires did 66.8mph in the 600ft slalom.

By: British_Rover

British_Rover — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:01:41 +0000

My MIN Cooper S with stock crappy runflats did it in…

Slalom Speed (700ft slalom): 68.1 mph

By: Dubbedinenglish

Dubbedinenglish — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:33:06 +0000

oh yes and mods are

Stock Pulley, Custom Cold Air Intake System, and an Evolution Performance Custom Tune using SCT Advantage III Software. THat generates 500 RWHP and 500 RwTrq

By: Dubbedinenglish

Dubbedinenglish — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:24:18 +0000

RPM the GT500 makes 500hp and 480lbs of trq. Its performance times are as follwed.

The GT500

0-60 4.5sec

1/4 mile 12.7 @116 mph

passing 45-65 1.9 secs

braking 60-0 110

600ft slalom 69.7 mph

lateral accleration .92g

Mt figure eight 24.5secs @ .77g

Thats right haters 69.7mph in the 600ft slalom.

as for that particular GT500 it ran the 1/4 11.81s on a stock pulley
with wheel spin off the line vid below

http://www.evoperform.com/GT500/eleven.wmv

By: RPM

RPM — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 03:30:05 +0000

Everybody is talking about how good this car is, but actually how good is it, the specifications are available nowhere, the guys from Evolution Performance managed to put up a video on this car but couldn’t submit the results ??!!

By: RC Collins

RC Collins — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 18:30:23 +0000

what makes you think that because the shelby of the past was a classic that this new one is a classic. your logic is flawed

By: GTX

GTX — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 18:11:56 +0000

Thanks stangguy. I hate how people ASSume that it handles like crap just because its an American car.

By: Craig

Craig — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 16:05:10 +0000

Go to an auction

Find a 1967-1969 Shelby Mustang GT500 or Super Snake 427 GT500 for sale

Pay through the nose.

Now it doesn’t matter that you paid $200k for it or that it’s “only” a GT500.

You now own a genuine classic.

By: RPM

RPM — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 16:02:44 +0000

Dude, the Porsche 911 Turbo is better any day.

By: GT500

GT500 — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 15:11:16 +0000

You get what you pay for.
If you want a car that can gun it in the straights… u get a GT500
If you want a car that sounds good, and is also an allrounder, then you get a Ferrari
You can’t call the people who buy a Ferrari stupid cuz those same people will call you stuipid for buying a GT500.
You are looking to save money and they are looking for the whole round experience and are willing to get it at whatever the cost.

By: 1c3d0g

1c3d0g — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 14:37:03 +0000

Renton: tell that to the stupid Ferrari people. They’ll pay anything just for the name.

By: Stangguy

Stangguy — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 13:25:43 +0000

yall really dont know about this car. yall are so cluless that even if this car would out do a mclaren F1 yall would still pick a prius over it. this car not only accelerates like a bat out of hell but it also turns rather good. on the MT test this vehicle posted a slalom speed of 69.7 mph. that’s about .1 mph less than an Evo MR. here are the Motort Trend stats for both cars.

EVO IX MR

0-60 4.5

Quarter Mile 13.3 sec @ 103.4 mph

Passing 45-65 mph 2.5 sec

Braking, 60-0 mph 107 ft

600-Ft Slalom 69.8 mph avg

MT Figure Eight 25.4 sec @ 0.72 g avg

Lateral Acceleration 0.92 g avg

The GT500

0-60 4.5sec

1/4 mile 12.7 @116 mph

passing 45-65 1.9 secs

braking 60-0 110

600ft slalom 69.7 mph

lateral accleration .92g

Mt figure eight 24.5secs @ .77g

it’s no slouch. it actualy beat it in figure 8 testing.

By: Renton

Renton — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 10:19:42 +0000

Foster— you are speculating too much on the future value of this car. Paying $15K over MSRP will destroy most future gains.

A $45K car is a $45K car, even if you pay $60K for it. Shelby or nothing. The name is not as valuable as you think.

By: Phil

Phil — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 07:31:53 +0000

to put it in a nice way…this car is made for a purpose (like allmost all american cars) to gun it on straights…thats all it’ll do…but first corner on a track and it will get beaten by a nissan sunny… but it probably does very well in what its made for…like the vette, which used to be made fot the same purpose! however, the latest vette model…especially the z06 is a true sportscar, able to compete with its european ‘brothers’, still no match in quality or luxury like bmw, audi, porsche, ferrari, lambo, … but it will eat a track and make it those cars pretty hard to beat it!

By: GET SAVED

GET SAVED — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 07:31:27 +0000

fords dumb!, this mustang is sooo overated!

By: GT500

GT500 — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 06:30:11 +0000

THEY CALL ME SHELBY GT500… aka “Shake & Shiver”

By: Foster

Foster — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 03:56:31 +0000

Thats because it will be worth more in the long run. Sure you might pay 20 over or move but in 10 years it will be worth more than all the money you paid for it. BECAUSE IT IS A SHELLBYYYYYYY so take your vett and loose 20 grand as soon as you drive you away. Ow and if you do buy the Z06 with all the mark up 30grad plus you will loose all of that plus more Reserch before you all talk

By: Renton

Renton — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 03:47:13 +0000

One of the best things about a “muscle car” is its low price. This car is selling at a huge premium over MSRP.

Boom………… all advantage lost.

By: Marz

Marz — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 03:11:17 +0000

It’s not about not being able to, it’s alot of things they can do, but they choose not to do it. i would take this over a vette anyday, with IRS or not.

By: Bimmer

Bimmer — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 03:04:46 +0000

this is a MUST have MUST ang!!!

By: BB

BB — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 03:03:11 +0000

Ford is pathetic for not being able to design a MODERN Mustang with an I R S! I like Ford over GM but the C6 Corvette would walk and handle all over this so called Shelby.

By: manny

manny — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 02:25:29 +0000

after the first vid, i was going to say they should have put the camera behind the car on they dyno for better sound pickup… but damn does that sound good with the mods!

By: Andre Neves

Andre Neves — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 01:46:30 +0000

Due to the price gouging of this car, I ended up not getting it when I was looking for a car last month.
I got something even better:
-It handles ALOT better
-Just as fast 0-60
-Just as fast on 1/4mile
- way smaller engine
- better gas mileage
- has more rear passenger room
- can be driven in the snow/rain/winter(AWD)
- etc. etc. etc.

That’s my ’06 Evolution IX MR
So happy I didn’t make the wrong decision

By: British_Rover

British_Rover — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 01:36:57 +0000

Solid axles are only better then IFS/IRS at two things.

Hard core drag racing and by that I mean 1/4 miles times in the mid 10 range. All of those import drag cars seem to do just fine with IRS up until the point they hit 9.99 in the quarter. Just look at all of the bad ass supras and 240SX/Sylvias.

http://findfastcars.com/NHRARules.html

“After market axles and axle-retention device mandatory on any car running 10.99 (*6.99) or quicker and any car with locked differential. Cars running 10.99 (*6.99) or quicker that weigh more than 2,000 pounds (907 kg) with independent rear suspension must have swing axle differential replaced with conventional differential housing assembly.”

The other thing that solid axles are superior at is hard core rock crawling. By hard core rock crawling I mean…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaxpYgsCZU0

No IFS/IRS system can do that. Even the cross linked valve setup that Land Rover uses in the new air suspensions is not good enough at replicating a solid axle to do that kind of rock crawling.

By: Inspector

Inspector — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 01:18:36 +0000

It isn’t “low tech” if your purpose is to put down a lot of power at a launch without breaking and/or wheel hopping. It is in fact much better at that than IRS.

That was my entire point, which you missed, RC. Calling it “low tech” is just ignorance of its purpose.

By: RC Collins

RC Collins — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 00:54:44 +0000

“muscle car” is not defined as “low tech” anymore, that was 1960. This is 2006 and this what you call “muscle car” is garbage

By: tino

tino — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 00:39:09 +0000

^inspector you are my hero…thanks for the real truth

By: Inspector

Inspector — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 00:35:26 +0000

Damn you people are ignorant.

The solid axle is a superior design for drag racing. It’s in the mustang because IRS will wheel-hop and break if you try to launch it with sticky tires. The live axle is in the car for a very good reason and you only betray your ignorance by comparing this car to the M3 or citicizing its handling.

It’s a MUSCLE CAR. If you don’t know what that is, then kindly go away. This car isn’t for you, so nobody wants to hear your opinion on it.

You all sound like a bunch of old ladies complaining about a performance car. “Oh, that doesn’t look comfortable! Oh, that won’t get good gas mileage! Oh, I can’t fit my grandchildren in there!”

By: miles

miles — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 00:22:16 +0000

that thing is overated ford keeps going down and down.

By: Marz

Marz — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 00:18:49 +0000

keep on beav lol i’m listenin’..tell these bias people..

By: Craig

Craig — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 00:10:20 +0000

Now that I think about it, there are a couple of things missing from the GT500 that would make it a true GT500. Just in style:

– QUAD headlights. Two main lights and two inset lights right in the middle of the grille. The 1967 GT500 cars with the original inset highbeams are the best.

– Side scoops on the rear quarters and just behind the driver and passenger side windows. They did this to aid in brake cooling and also to funnel air into the cabin on A/C Delete cars. Maybe global warming has meant that even modern performance cars are unbearable without A/C

– The fiberglass hood (maybe carbon fiber now?) with two big intake vents. That hood just does it.

And sure… it can be argued that it’s all for style anyway but the GT500 is all ABOUT style in every way. Ford ought to set it right in the looks department.

By: Renton

Renton — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 23:44:27 +0000

I like the Stang. I like the Vette. I’d buy niether. I’d get an ///M coupe anyway.

By: Marz

Marz — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 23:11:04 +0000

Its nuts in ur opinion, but it’s a more fair comparison. I can care less about the vette, the vette isn’t the only sports car, and everyone is not gonna buy a vette. It is a stang, why should it matter? Because u don’t like them? i don’t care if anybody doesn’t like it, all it matters is if i do. I don’t have time for kiddy arguments started by people who doesn’t like the stang, noone said anything against the vette, ppl just wanna start crap.

By: Butt Candy

Butt Candy — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 22:53:06 +0000

And we’ll still be doing it when this POS has fallen apart WeezyFBaby

By: WeezyFBaby

WeezyFBaby — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 22:21:19 +0000

At the end of the day, most of you guys will never drive a car of this caliber. So just shut the F*** Up! Just go and drive your 200 HP imports and have fun “turning them” and rubbing/sniffing the interior. Kids…..

By: GL

GL — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 21:46:47 +0000

First of all Renton you are right on. They are in exactly the same price range therefore the same market for comparison. Yes they did compare the two of them and the vette beat it in every catagory. Jeeezzee even the much lower priced camaro is coming out with and IRS system why can’t ford figure this out ? are they just too cheap to do it or what ? They are going in reverse in technology as far as suspension goes. Fords taking this retro thing way too far they are even using 60′s suspension techniques. Also comparing the Corvette to the ford GT is nuts the Ford GT is more than twice the cost of the stock vette. Also and by the way The new Vette Z06 out performs the Ford GT for less than half the cost. However I do wish the Challenger was comning out with an IRS suspension like the camaro as that looks like a very interesting machine.

By: Don

Don — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 21:22:49 +0000

this car is crap corvette is better http://www.caranddriver.com/comparisons/11150/heavy-pedal.html

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 21:19:52 +0000

All that drama and it still runs low 13s. Lame.

By: Slow Moe Joe

Slow Moe Joe — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 20:58:42 +0000

Sounds good, but I like something that turns well.

By: Mitch

Mitch — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 20:57:03 +0000

I just wanna say that I thought the difference in the stock performance to the upgraded package was amazing,that pony was chommping at the bit to get moving. And personally I think Ford if anything could make the damn thing faster and lighter. I still perfer the 03/04 SVT Terminator Mustang in performance. Im not a fan of fords ugly retro pony but i sure miss the bodies from the sn95 frames. I hope ford can get a better body on this new chasis before the 09 drop date of Camaro.

By: Renton

Renton — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 20:56:17 +0000

Marz — you may not take price into comparison, but the rest of the world does. The GT500 is very expensive pony car. At the end of the day, your still driving a Mustang.