the new Shelbys
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RE: the new Shelbys
ORIGINAL: Lumbergh
I'd read that they had started renting the GTH's.
I agree that the Shelbys and the new Mustangs in general are wayyyyy overweight. The Shelby tips the scales, literally, at 3,900 pounds! I believe that's as much as most SUVs and trucks. I thought that the original idea behind Pony cars was light weight, basic, sporty cars.
About the price, it seems to me that Ford is keeping it artificially high by producing such small numbers. The market's there, obviously. They could easily produce the Shelby in the numbers that Corvettes are produced if not more and still sell them for MSRP, possibly a little more than MSRP. I don't get it. They're losing money and they don't produce a car that would sell like hot cakes. Why don't they produce enough so that the people who want it can buy it.
I'd read that they had started renting the GTH's.
I agree that the Shelbys and the new Mustangs in general are wayyyyy overweight. The Shelby tips the scales, literally, at 3,900 pounds! I believe that's as much as most SUVs and trucks. I thought that the original idea behind Pony cars was light weight, basic, sporty cars.
About the price, it seems to me that Ford is keeping it artificially high by producing such small numbers. The market's there, obviously. They could easily produce the Shelby in the numbers that Corvettes are produced if not more and still sell them for MSRP, possibly a little more than MSRP. I don't get it. They're losing money and they don't produce a car that would sell like hot cakes. Why don't they produce enough so that the people who want it can buy it.
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Joined: Jun 2006
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From: Nor*Cal
RE: the new Shelbys
ORIGINAL: Lumbergh
I'd read that they had started renting the GTH's.
I agree that the Shelbys and the new Mustangs in general are wayyyyy overweight. The Shelby tips the scales, literally, at 3,900 pounds! I believe that's as much as most SUVs and trucks. I thought that the original idea behind Pony cars was light weight, basic, sporty cars.
About the price, it seems to me that Ford is keeping it artificially high by producing such small numbers. The market's there, obviously. They could easily produce the Shelby in the numbers that Corvettes are produced if not more and still sell them for MSRP, possibly a little more than MSRP. I don't get it. They're losing money and they don't produce a car that would sell like hot cakes. Why don't they produce enough so that the people who want it can buy it.
I'd read that they had started renting the GTH's.
I agree that the Shelbys and the new Mustangs in general are wayyyyy overweight. The Shelby tips the scales, literally, at 3,900 pounds! I believe that's as much as most SUVs and trucks. I thought that the original idea behind Pony cars was light weight, basic, sporty cars.
About the price, it seems to me that Ford is keeping it artificially high by producing such small numbers. The market's there, obviously. They could easily produce the Shelby in the numbers that Corvettes are produced if not more and still sell them for MSRP, possibly a little more than MSRP. I don't get it. They're losing money and they don't produce a car that would sell like hot cakes. Why don't they produce enough so that the people who want it can buy it.
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From: Marquette Mi
RE: the new Shelbys
For the same money I can build something that will suck the headlights out of the new one, get better mileage, handle better, and quite possibly get the 71 back on its wheels...
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RE: the new Shelbys
I asked our "Shelby guy" at the last Mustang club meeting, and he said something about Hertz auctioning the GT-H's to the Ford dealers who will then sell them on their lots. He said this should happen around January. He also said they are going to make another GT-H which will not be rented at Hertz and will be missing a couple of decals the rented GT-H's have, and will be going on sale just like Shelby's and Roushe's.
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From: Nor*Cal
RE: the new Shelbys
ORIGINAL: robthedolphin
I asked our "Shelby guy" at the last Mustang club meeting, and he said something about Hertz auctioning the GT-H's to the Ford dealers who will then sell them on their lots. He said this should happen around January. He also said they are going to make another GT-H which will not be rented at Hertz and will be missing a couple of decals the rented GT-H's have, and will be going on sale just like Shelby's and Roushe's.
I asked our "Shelby guy" at the last Mustang club meeting, and he said something about Hertz auctioning the GT-H's to the Ford dealers who will then sell them on their lots. He said this should happen around January. He also said they are going to make another GT-H which will not be rented at Hertz and will be missing a couple of decals the rented GT-H's have, and will be going on sale just like Shelby's and Roushe's.
^^^ With only a 500 unit production run, good luck getting ahold of one that doesn't cost your firstborn child. My guess is that if you find one at a dealership in the near future, it will probably be one of the other ones you were talking about that are "mock" H's without the decals and what not. If the ones that were actually rented by Hertz get auctioned off, I would expect they will be spoken for in a heartbeat (if they aren't already spoken for to begin with).