tacamo
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I, for one, would be perfectly happy to have a performance car without paying any additional royalties to Shelby...let the money go to the goodies and not the name.
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If I was Ford I'd do the following.In my opinion ford needs to stop playing musical chairs with their model names and develop something more uniformed that can be used across various generations. Base, ST(inline 4), GT, GT350(Race car), GT500(grand coupe).
Yea I just saw that again too, but I'm highly skeptical of that timing. We've gotten some pretty credible hints that the SVT product is coming out in 2016. Sure it'll be expensive and sure there will be a little void left by the B302 that can plugged by the Mach1, but SE's usually come much later into the cycle, when they need a little jolt and some nice fanfare.IIRC, back in June, Mustangs Daily said its "sources inside Ford" indicated that the Mach 1 is slated to be re-introduced, possibly in 2017.
Trivia question, how did they come up with the 350 in the GT 350 name?I like the Shelby name. Shelby GT500 just sounds right, IMO.
I could live with this.If I was Ford I'd do the following.
Mustang (V6)
Mustang ST or SVO (turbo 4)
Mustang GT (NA V8)
Mustang Boss 302 (Race Car NA Hi Rev V8)
Shelby GT350 (Boss with the Luxury items NA Hi Rev V8)
Shelby GT500 (All out luxury and performance Turbo/SC V8)
Make it a Drag Pack rather than a Track Pack.
That's it. They were trying to figure out what to label the car an Shelby had someone count off the paces from his office to the production offices. It was 350 steps. The GT 350 was thus born. lolMy understanding it was 350 feet from the production line to an office(Shelby's office)? Or something to that effect.
Wrong. Carroll Shelby set performance & price-point goals for the current GT500. He then stepped back & let Jameel & his team figure out how to get 'er done.Yes, and Shelby had zero to do with the GT500 production Mustang anyway, except licensing his name. So the name meant nothing from an engineering or handling dynamics perspective.
Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.Here is what it could look like: