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As you guys may or may not know I was nearing the purchase of an 07 gt500 Shelby Cobra. Well a guy came over the top offering 20k over retail and he got the car :(. Well he got a flat the other day and brought it to the dealership and said he'd pick it up at the end of the day. Well after we got the $300 tire I had to test drive it to get the tire pressure light to go off and check for vibrations of course ;).

Well I'm driving it and I get to a straight open stretch with no others around. I give it gas and it accelerates slowly. Me and my fellow technician look at each other like this is 500 HP!? The all of a sudden the hole front ends in the air and it's accelerating like fuck. I ended up hitting 110 in the snap of a finger and had to shut down cause I was shitting my self. So when we're turning around I tap the gas barely 1/4 of an inch and the whole ass end snaps completely sideways and we're heading straight for the ditch so I jamm the clutch in then let out snap the gas and straighten it out. That thing is tits! It has so much fuckin power it's amazing. Just thought I'd share an amazing expereince with y'all. Take er easy!

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remind me not to bring my car to your shop :biggrin:

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Just think, for half of the cost you could have a mildly-modded Evo that is as fast or faster. On top of that, it will out-handle the stang and yes, you can drive it in the winter since it has AWD.

Would be fun to drive one of those, but they're way overpriced IMHO.

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or a twin turbo fox body stang that will rip the doors off of the GT500 :banana:

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Wow, easy killer!

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I completely agree, especially considering there a mustang besides the endine, the chassis and suspension components are the same except bigger brembo breaks and sway bars. But boy did I have a shitload of fun driving it. Right now I'm in the market of it a new VW Passat. I love the interior, and the warranty:seeya: and its still turbo lol.

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"nearing purchase", lol. A typical car guy would knock your fuck'n teeth in for taking someones car out like that. It happened to me once in my old GST. A guy went for a test drive and pulled out right before me, didn't know I was the owner of the car. He beat the shit out of it for about a mile and I went back to the shop and reemed some ass (like Tom on a 5 yr old, it was thick).

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best experience ever? i thought this thread was gonna be about how you finally put it in your girl's butt

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Bahahahahahah!

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I thought they were kinda slow stock. They dyno in the low 400s at the wheels stock, but they have to wiegh around 4000lbs. They feel like a tank.

They like mods though, intake, pulley and a tune is good for around 500whp. Add header back exhaust and it will be close to 550whp. Here is a video of one we did this spring http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBjDXEPIZYI It put down 413whp stock. It still has stock motor, stock clutch, 100% stock fuel system.

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So let me get this straight, you want either a Ford GT500 or a VW Passat? WTF???

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I completly get it.

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It won't be long and he'll be nearing the purchase of a moped.

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You beat me to it.

Let's start a pool on how long before he gets his ass kicked by the guy for beating on the dude's car.

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No wonder the pricks at morries mazda wouldn't let me gas up the porsche gt2, I probably would have slid it into a curb.

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This thread delivers....

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The guy actually asked us how far we took it and we said quite a ways, and then he responded with, you guys were going kind of fast huh. We told him and he said, well the cars made to drive obviously. Then he went on telling us hes sending it to ford for the 40th anniversary package which gets it up around 600 ponies. He ended up leaving it over night again for us to take it out in the morning in whcih he incouraged us to give it what it got to make sure there was no vibrations, so he wouldn't find out the hard way.


And as far as from the GT500 to a Passat, I was going to be living from paycheck to paycheck with the GT500 since I didn't get that, I decided I wanted something that will be comfortably making my payments with money set aside towards my college loans down the road.

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I like the styling of the S197 cars and even strongly considered buying one. The power/weight ratio and sloppy handling drove me away from them. The supercharged 5.4 makes decent power, it's too bad it's in a 4,000lb car.

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Best quote ever! HAHAHA

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Moped with three wheels drift style!!!

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This thread is retarded. Why on earth would a guy spend 20k over sticker on a car that can now be purchased at sticker price? And then, why would the guy leave it over night after a tire change knowing some little punk tire tech was just going to flog on it the next morning?

What was the point in even posting this nonsense?

Even if you really did drive the car, which maybe you never even did, you could have cut out the BS and just posted that you liked it.

:)

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Why would he pay 20k over sticker price, prolly cause there's only 3500 of the cars and they sold faster than rice in china. People are willing to pay almost 70k right now and are still searching for them.


And on the other hand why would he leave it over night. The shelbys front tires are Goodyear Eagle F1s with double layered rubber to protect the rim from curb damage and scuffs, 10 inches in width (13 in rear). And aren't exactly easy to get ahold of quickly. So before you say I'm full of shit on these please, get your facts straight fuckface.

And some punk little tire tech lol, I'm not a tire tech chief, just offered to do it because it's prestigious car, so once again fuck off and don't post in my thread if your going to be a bitch.

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Easy there hotrod!

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^lol.:postalot:

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there nice not worth the cash. in your first thread didnt you say your dealer ship had like 10 or so of these cars though so the 20k over doesmt make any sence to me but thats ok i guess

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They were supposed to have 7 in stock.

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We had a good 6 Shelby GT500s in this spring/summer that the owners had paid 20k over sticker on. The prices are and should go down a lot though. With how many of them they are making, they might end up being less rare than the 03/04 Cobras.

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I must have missed typed, I meant 7 in stock left in the country but they're got swallowed up and the demands still high, look on ebay at somepoint.

Oh and ecoli, they made 2 for every dealership in america, so they made around 3500 of them.

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Ford didn't give a solid production number, they will build as many as people will buy. Some of the dealerships here have 2 on the lot now and have already sold a bunch. I think they dealers are trying to make it seem like they will be rare, so they can jack up the prices way over sticker.

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Shane, what kind of numbers have you seen out of thoughs cars with the Kenne Bell 2.8 kit?

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We have only done one with the KB so far, most of the ones we have worked on and tuned have been pulleyed stock blowers with various bolt-ons. We made 732 with the KB stage 3 and a full exhaust system with long tube headers. We went up a pulley size for less boost when we gave it back to the customer and it was making around 722. Without a full exhaust on them, I would expect it to be more like 650-680.

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AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA THIS THREAD ROCKS THE SOCKS OFF ALL THOSE ON THE DOCKS!!!

There's a place where I live where the "techies" or whatever the fuck they are take cars out and beat on them like fuckwads. One time, I was filling up there and I saw these kids take a car out at full bore and the fuckin' rear tires just fell off. These retards fuckin' didn't even put the lug nuts on! I also caught the retards that did my dad's brakes for him at Sears burning out in his Pacifica! Not that it's a cool car or anything, but my dad ended up getting all new brakes for free after I bitched out everyone there. People that take customers cars out and beat on them for a few quick "look how cool I am for 10 seconds" moments are retards, even if you justify the guy telling you to. If you break it, you buy it...



and then I wait in the parking lot til' you get off work and I hit you over the head with a tire iron.

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Wow, doesn't seem like you just mistyped about the 7 GT500's at your dealership.

That was in response to someone saying they were rare.

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Had too!!!

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Just goes to show his maturity and intelligence again. Get a GT500, live paycheck to paycheck and never pay insurance premiums (because they would be WAYYYYY out of his price range). Unless mommy and daddy pick up the tab. You are 18 years old (and who knows what job title you hold....Tire Tech, detailer, general bitch, whatever...) there wouldn't be a loan agency or insurance company that would touch you. I leased a Ranger in the 90's with a perfect record and great credit rating and still paid almost $300 a month for insurance (I was 19 years old). Not to mention the payments were $240 a month.

This reminds me of the orginal thread by this idiot.

Like I said before, ditch the bitch and let's go racing!!!!!

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Just forget about the Shelby and put it in her butt in the backseat of your Passat, if you buy that. Or whatever you end up buying...

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Get a friggin' GTI or something, not a damn passat.

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If you are talking about the limited production 08 Shelby KR or whatever it is then you have the start to a valid argument, because yes, people are signing up to spend 20k over sticker just like when the GT500 originally came out.

Also, you said you fixed the tire and test drove it to make sure there was nothing wrong. Why would he allow you to test drive it again in the morning if you already verified that it was ok?

You are a tool, and I will continue to post in this thread.:)


Oh, and what is a double layered tire? Never heard that terminology before? Care to elaborate? I dont know of any tire that doesnt have more than one layer.

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:lol:

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Can I ask why you would want to live paycheck to paycheck for a big 4000lb, $40,000 piece of plastic with a solid rear axel? And if the GT500 is around $40-$45K, why the fuck do you want a Passat, those can run ya close to $30K+ with options! I don't think you know what the fuck you're doing. Get a loan, get a used car that can be made dank, and don't throw away the next 10 years of your life. There's no fucking way you can go to college if you buy a new car at 18. I have 5 friends that have done that since High School when we graduated and now it's either sell their car, which they don't want to, or keep paying it off til' they're 26. I'm not trying to preach here, but I myself almost bought a new car and decided that I'd just be fucking myself with it.

Plus, you probably didn't think of the "what ifs."

What if... you crash it, and it's you're fault? You're fucked!

What if... you can't afford the insuance or loan payment? You're fucked! CALLING REPO MAN!!!

What if... you get a DUI or something? You're triple fuckfucked! No license for 6 months, having to pay loan for that long, having to pay insurance too! And you can't drive it!

WHAT THE FUCK WERE YOU GOING TO DRIVE IN THE WINTER IN MAINE?!??!?