Re: New Ford GT
Cramer,
I wasn't complaining from the passenger seat. My Neighbor got one of the first ones since he owns a Ford dealership and took me for a ride. During the ride I mentioned the car was a dog and he agreed so he and I spent the better part of an hour trying to get the thing to live up to the hype in it's factory configuration. We never did get very happy about it. Both of us own 2003 SVT Cobra's and it felt a lot like the Cobra no bottom end torgue , all the power was at the upper end of the power curve. I have driven an 04 Viper and that car has torque every freakin place and feels like an old muscle car. Feels like 510 freakin ponies from the minute you get in the drivers seat. Feels like a car a man would drive and not some guy complaining his 150K Ford GT has no cup holders for his Starbucks Mocha Latte and no storage space for his purse. LOL
I have watched a couple stock Ford GTs out at the track and the two I saw couldn't get below 12.40 at about 121 in the quarter. Meanwhile some joker in his stock Mercedes SL 65 was out there ripping off consistent 11.90s and 12s all night long.
IMHO all those mid 11 second quarter mile times we read about were performed in pre-production high boost GTs and not production GTs. You know how all those guys are who write for the car magazines? Just well lubed shills for the manufacturers? LOL
Yesterday I bumped into my neighbor in his GT and it sounded fantastic and he wants to take me for another ride. He says it's finally broken in and running right. I figure he has the exhaust and a pulley and the car is a ground pounding rip roaring animal now.
I personally love the Ford GT but am not that happy about having to mod it to be happy with it. Ford GTs can be bought for 10K under MSRP and think I will wait until they can be bought at dealer cost and you tell me which mods work and which ones don't. Or wait another year and pick them up even cheaper. I would rather over pay for a premium muscle car from my favorite muscle car dealer than buy a late model depreciation bomb.
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