I cannot see how you can hate this car

"YSI-what can brown do for you" (ysi-what-can-brown-do-for-you)
08/25/2013 at 13:40 • Filed to: None

Sounds great, looks great(the best looking American car since the 2000s Ford GT), and has power that would make a Lamborghini Murcielago jealous. Even if you hate muscle cars, you have to love this beast! It also has significance, being the last car Carol Shelby oversaw/made. I can see this thing being worth much more money in the future. Hopefully not to much, cause I actually want one of these. Really badly.

DISCUSSION (35)

Sparf > YSI-what can brown do for you
08/25/2013 at 13:44

From what I hear it's too powerful for the chassis to handle it in stock form, and I don't doubt that either.

Blondude > YSI-what can brown do for you
08/25/2013 at 13:44

Dat horsepower per dollar ratio.

Goshen, formerly Darkcode > YSI-what can brown do for you
08/25/2013 at 13:45

I don't like its looks, but it's makes a helluva sweet noise, and it's quite a machine itself. And yes, it's gonna appreciate in about ten years.
People hate it because well, society has became too sanitized for cars like the GT500. It's a pity. I recommend you to read TTAC's review if you like it so much. Something of a fin de siécle piece if you ask me.

Victorious Secret > YSI-what can brown do for you
08/25/2013 at 13:49

I only hate one aspect of it.

The Shelby aspect.

Shelby has had fuck all to do with the last 2 versions of the GT500. It has all been a product of the Special Vehicles Team yet you need to look a little harder to find the SVT badges that indicate as such.

Goshen, formerly Darkcode > Victorious Secret
08/25/2013 at 13:52

Exactly. And in the meantime, they deprive Shelby American of being able to use the GT500 name.

dropthatclutch > Sparf
08/25/2013 at 13:53

Too powerful? There's no such thing. See: http://oppositelock.jalopnik.com/watch-this-119…

Bandit > YSI-what can brown do for you
08/25/2013 at 13:58

This is the best looking American car since the Ford GT.

Kinja'd!!!

Sparf > dropthatclutch
08/25/2013 at 13:59

Notice how I wrote "in stock form" ? That E30's chassis has been reinforced extensively to handle the added power. The GT500's factory stock chassis isn't quite stiff enough to handle the power, and would really benefit from a cage or at least some added bracing.

dropthatclutch > Sparf
08/25/2013 at 14:03

I'm sorry, but my sarcasm didn't make it through all the interwebs.

Jonathan Hays > YSI-what can brown do for you
08/25/2013 at 14:18

I don't think I could hate it if I tried, looks and sounds too awesome. If I had to cast a vote for best looking American car since the Ford GT, I wouldn't vote for it, instead choosing the CTS-V Wagon, or the C7 Stingray.

Kinja'd!!!

Or even...dare I say the C6 Z06

Kinja'd!!!

If a GT500 and any of these three parked side by side, I'd be looking more closely at these. Of course this is all a personal preference, and I can certainly see why so many love the GT500 - they are awesome.

Saracen > Victorious Secret
08/25/2013 at 14:39

I test drove a 550hp version of the Shelby GT500 a year ago.

It was fucking terrible.

Burrito de EJ25 > Victorious Secret
08/25/2013 at 15:09

They haven't utilized the SVT name in quiet sometime. It's a huge bummer.

YSI-what can brown do for you > Victorious Secret
08/25/2013 at 15:15

So wait, you are telling me. . . he did jack shit? He didn't even overlook the project? Please tell me more.

YSI-what can brown do for you > Bandit
08/25/2013 at 15:17

Booooo get out! It looks really big and bulky, especially the V6 model with its tiny wheels

YSI-what can brown do for you > Sparf
08/25/2013 at 15:17

And that is why it is awesome.

Victorious Secret > YSI-what can brown do for you
08/25/2013 at 15:17

The departed Shelby had jack all to do with the current GT500. He didn't oversee a thing.

The SVT team worked on their own on the car. In his honour and using his name is just that, for the publicity and sales. Shelby as a company has nothing to do with the GT500 at all anymore. Its entirely an in house operation.

Sparf > YSI-what can brown do for you
08/25/2013 at 15:17

Chassis flex isn't nice even in a burnout and donut-machine.

Sparf > dropthatclutch
08/25/2013 at 15:18

Ah, my bad.

Sparf > Victorious Secret
08/25/2013 at 15:19

Actually, I kinda agree with you. It would have been a lot better to keep the SVT Cobra name.

Victorious Secret > Sparf
08/25/2013 at 15:21

The SVT Cobra/Terminators were pretty awesome but they were also packing IRS rear ends and were pretty exceptional in the corner business.

I don't know, it seems as if they left the track rat mentality to the now GT and the GT500 has gotten to keep the overpowered straight line business.

Bringing back the SVT Cobra plate for the next GT500 would be freaking amazing.

Bandit > YSI-what can brown do for you
08/25/2013 at 15:22

But look how closely it looks to the original (design wise, not size wise)

Kinja'd!!!

YSI-what can brown do for you > Sparf
08/25/2013 at 15:22

Yeah this is true, but I mean it is kind of comical. I hear the shifter is nice, steering sucks, but the engine is a monster! I wonder what if feels like to drive. . .

YSI-what can brown do for you > Bandit
08/25/2013 at 15:25

That is a plus I guess. you can tell it is a charger even though it is 40 years newer. I am not quite sure but there are a lot thing off about the new one, like the rear end. DAMN YOU SAFETY REGULATIONS!

PS9 > Victorious Secret
08/25/2013 at 15:27

It would, but it's not gonna happen. He's has even less to do with it now that he's dead, but people will still shell out that $$$ for a Mustang with Shelby Badgeing on it.

Victorious Secret > PS9
08/25/2013 at 15:31

Call me a square, I'd remove the badging if I got one going forward.

I don't particularly like the excessive badging, I appreciate the snake so I could be inclined to keep that, SVT and Cobras have a long history; but I'd just as happily slap the SVT badge on the trunklid and call it a day. Honour those that actually put sweat into the car and let the public know in a manner besides having to open up the hood and looking at the valve covers.

Burrito de EJ25 > Victorious Secret
08/25/2013 at 15:34

Or the speedo. I believe it's on the gauge cluster.

Victorious Secret > Burrito de EJ25
08/25/2013 at 15:36

The SVT logo lights up when you approach redline I believe, unless they've changed that.

More SVT badges is the end game here.

Maybe if Shelby as a company actually did something to help SVT I'd shut up about it, but its plain and simple profiteering from a name that I'm not even sure the upcoming generations will ever have a reason to care about.

Sparf > Victorious Secret
08/25/2013 at 15:36

Ditto, although I'd also remove the snakes since I dislike that badge (especially since it's off-center on the grille, which I hate).

Victorious Secret > Sparf
08/25/2013 at 15:36

The snakes by the sides can stay, the one in front ehhh...no.

Just aesthetically, its stupid.

Sparf > Victorious Secret
08/25/2013 at 15:38

It's the same with the first and second generation Camaro Z/28 (and now the new fifth gen too), and I actually dislike it due to that off-center grille badge alone and prefer the SS (the centered grille badge pleases my very light OCD tendencies).

Victorious Secret > Sparf
08/25/2013 at 15:39

For the GT500, its not like people need a reminder of what the damn thing is.

As if the quad pipes, gaping intercooler, viagra fuelled hood bulge and thundering V8 note somehow lead people to call it a Civic.

Bandit > YSI-what can brown do for you
08/25/2013 at 15:49

Cough... challenger... cough.

This is the new charger

Kinja'd!!!

This is the old charger

Kinja'd!!!

Dodge Failed on this front.

Sparf > Victorious Secret
08/25/2013 at 15:50

That's also true. I find it to be a bit too much for me, and that's weird since I like things like RWB Porsches. I guess it's because it's "too much" without quite having the same unrefined rawness of something like RWB.

YSI-what can brown do for you > Bandit
08/25/2013 at 17:24

yeah. . . thats what I meant. Completely meant challenger. Totally.

I need to learn more about old school american muscle, I confuse a lot of the cars.

Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis > Saracen
08/27/2013 at 20:15