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« Reply #80 on: August 14, 2009, 08:57:28 pm » |
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Of course, I went to drive a GT500 today (I did call ahead to tell them I was coming)...and was denied.
"No test drives...you must just buy the car". What if I don't like it, I asked...to which I got a shoulder shrug.
I had an eerily similar experience with the GT500. The bonehead sales guy even referred to it as an "exotic"! The day I buy a car without driving it....
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« Reply #81 on: August 14, 2009, 09:27:28 pm » |
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I had an eerily similar experience with the GT500. The bonehead sales guy even referred to it as an "exotic"! The day I buy a car without driving it....
An exotic? Well...tell that guy that there's a more exotic 2009 Shelby GT500KR still sitting in the Discovery Ford showroom...they only want $86 for that. Do you see what power Wing has? He says "don't drive it"...and what do we do? |
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« Reply #82 on: August 14, 2009, 10:11:19 pm » |
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You don't end up driving it? Rofl
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« Reply #83 on: August 14, 2009, 11:15:54 pm » |
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If the owner has one you may get to drive his!
The thing is a beast, loved every minute of it. |
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« Reply #84 on: August 14, 2009, 11:32:26 pm » |
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If the owner has one you may get to drive his!
The thing is a beast, loved every minute of it.
That's it exactly Wing. The strange thing is that I was sending all kinds of buying signals...this guy just didn't pick up on it. I asked him twice - "So if I write up the paper work, what happens next"...and nothing! This thing is ~ $67 with taxes vs. $42 for a standard GT...is it 60% better? I'm not even into the big horsepower game much (which is obvious as I drive an RX8). It certainly is special...neat car-guy touches like the engine being hand-built by two guys names Gary and Jeff on Ford's Romeo plant niche line.  |
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« Reply #85 on: August 14, 2009, 11:34:41 pm » |
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If you are not into the power ... then get a GT, swap a short shifter into it, change to coilovers / stiffer springs all around, change the diff to a T2R and call it a day. You could swap cams / intake / header on the GT motor and get good gains for real cheap as well.
Or wait a year, and get the 5.0-litre mustang that is coming out.
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« Reply #87 on: August 15, 2009, 08:41:51 am » |
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.."Gary & Jeff"..................  ...i'd prefer "FABricio & Rocco".......  |
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« Reply #88 on: August 15, 2009, 09:21:56 am » |
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Nice. Thanks for the link. That is interesting indeed. Ford better tune the exhaust on it a lot if it is an Ecoboost, cause the current GT has one of the nicest exhaust notes around. |
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« Reply #89 on: August 15, 2009, 11:38:06 am » |
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If you are not into the power ... then get a GT, swap a short shifter into it, change to coilovers / stiffer springs all around, change the diff to a T2R and call it a day. You could swap cams / intake / header on the GT motor and get good gains for real cheap as well.
Or wait a year, and get the 5.0-litre mustang that is coming out.
The GT500 was sick malade fast though.
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« Reply #90 on: August 15, 2009, 03:45:10 pm » |
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This thing is ~ $67 with taxes vs. $42 for a standard GT...is it 60% better? For anyone asking that question, I'd say no. And although it may not be an "exotic," it is a true limited production vehicle. In Canada they are sold at only 26 dealers and each of them get only a handful of cars. Based on the last 3 years sales, people don't need to be "sold" on this car. They have sold out easily. GT500 buyers absolutely love the fact that no one else has driven their car. |
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« Reply #91 on: August 15, 2009, 06:27:00 pm » |
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... GT500 buyers absolutely love the fact that no one else has driven their car. ... But not as in Religious Sacrificable non-touched PURE. Lot attendants, transporters, curious Sales Manager ... all had their mitts on the steering wheel. |
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... GT500 buyers absolutely love the fact that no one else has driven their car. ... But not as in Religious Sacrificable non-touched PURE. Lot attendants, transporters, curious Sales Manager ... all had their mitts on the steering wheel. True. But buyers only seem to worry about what other customers might do to it.  |
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« Reply #93 on: August 15, 2009, 07:27:34 pm » |
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« Reply #94 on: August 15, 2009, 08:35:23 pm » |
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And as luck would have it, I'll be "only" 4 hours 45 minutes away this week as I head down for the Bristol NASCAR race! My research seemed to indicate that the previous gen GT500 wasn't a great vehicle. Lots of power...but relatively little poise...the 2010 is apparently a massive step forward. |
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« Reply #95 on: August 15, 2009, 09:21:26 pm » |
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If you are not into the power ... then get a GT, swap a short shifter into it, change to coilovers / stiffer springs all around, change the diff to a T2R and call it a day. You could swap cams / intake / header on the GT motor and get good gains for real cheap as well.
Or wait a year, and get the 5.0-litre mustang that is coming out.
The GT500 was sick malade fast though.
You're smoking your shorts if you think you're doing a cam swap "for cheap". I helped do this ONCE. And never again. This is a pull-the-heads-off operation..or the entire engine. Oh..and the cams run about $700 each (you need 2). There is nothing cheap about a mod Ford cam swap. If you want to go GT500 fast(er) for a bunch less money....my first choice is the beautifully engineered Kenne Bell supercharger. It makes 100 MORE horsepower than the GT500. For $5K. Yea..the Mustang GT handles very well indeed (tweaked). The Mustang has been putting it to the M3 good in the Speed Challenge series... |
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« Reply #96 on: August 15, 2009, 11:41:48 pm » |
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$2k is cheap IMO... My buddy just did a cam swap on the S2000. Cost him $10,000 + tunning. His gain? 10 hp..... ouch  |
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« Reply #97 on: August 16, 2009, 12:46:49 am » |
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« Reply #98 on: August 16, 2009, 01:54:05 am » |
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$2k is cheap IMO... My buddy just did a cam swap on the S2000. Cost him $10,000 + tunning. His gain? 10 hp..... ouch Couple of blocks if ice near the air intake might have got him that!  |
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« Reply #99 on: August 16, 2009, 08:57:26 am » |
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CHILL baybee...divert a Caliber's Kool Cubby to the intake............................. |
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