GT350 Spied Testing

[Grimace427]

From Car and Driver - "As for aesthetics, every body panel forward of the A-pillar is unique to the new Shelby (shown in GT350-only Avalanche Gray in the first studio photos)..."

C&D was mistaken, the first studio photos of the car were in white with blue stripes. The grey car was completely CGI, not an actual car in a studio.

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[DB83]

Find me some pics and I'll do it. Do graphics/motion graphics for a living.



Interesting...so we think the '16 might have a different hood with a vent like that? This is killing me..trying to figure out to pull the trigger on the '15 or just wait for the '16.

Ok, so best i could do.

 

[stable68]

That black car is one of the first GT350 mules. It was established a long time ago that this car had the body work and suspension of a GT350 but with a normal coyote engine in it.

 

[Tony Alonso]

C&D was mistaken, the first studio photos of the car were in white with blue stripes. The grey car was completely CGI, not an actual car in a studio.

I took "studio photos" to mean "official media released from Ford". And yes, technically, the grey car was computer generated but it was also designated as Avalanche grey.

 

[BlackDragon]

Ok, so best i could do.

You can def see the lower headlights with those two pics

 

[Spartan]

You can def see the lower headlights with those two pics

Really? If you look at the point of the back of the headlight, it matches up with the wheel well flat curve in both shots.

If you take a ruler and go from the door handles up to the lights on each side and draw a line, the spacing from that line to the lights looks identical to me

 

[R 350 gt Donson]

C&D was mistaken, the first studio photos of the car were in white with blue stripes. The grey car was completely CGI, not an actual car in a studio.

This is what I THOUGHT !! Thanks for clearing this up !!:frusty:

 

[Hack]

Really? If you look at the point of the back of the headlight, it matches up with the wheel well flat curve in both shots.

If you take a ruler and go from the door handles up to the lights on each side and draw a line, the spacing from that line to the lights looks identical to me

I agree. I can't see that the headlights are lower either.

 

[Amaury]

The GT350 headlights are actually lower. Look at the terminal point in the bumper/fender related to the headlights....

 

[RustedAngel]

I agree. I can't see that the headlights are lower either.

Check it out...

 

[Spartan]

The GT350 headlights are actually lower. Look at the terminal point in the bumper/fender related to the headlights....

Circle where you are talking about.

Going by the point at the far back, near the wheel well, the lights seem to be in the exact same height/placement.

The obvious lowering of the hood is with the scoop near the window. It's gone on the GT350.

 

[Spartan]

Check it out...

I see that but those look 1.5 inches further in...not lower.

This is what I'm talking about..from the side those lights do not look lower. Images are at slightly different angles but they don't look lower to me.

I put an arrow on your picture to show where it looks like 1.5" inward...which I definitely see. Their definition of lower on a car might mean something completely different.

 

[Amaury]

Rusted did it for me. Also look at the headlight related to the flat are on the fender on top of wheels. You can see the GT350 headlights are flush with the area while the GT are a bit higher...


Another point is the finish line of the fender above the headlights. In the GT350, the fender finish exactly where the 3 bars start while in the GT, it ends after the halo.

 

[RustedAngel]

I see that but those look 1.5 inches further in...not lower.

This is what I'm talking about..from the side those lights do not look lower. Images are at slightly different angles but they don't look lower to me.

I put an arrow on your picture to show where it looks like 1.5" inward...which I definitely see. Their definition of lower on a car might mean something completely different.

Different angle in a photo that far away can blur perception on an inch really easily.

But it's not that it's simply farther forward...it's lower, which is why the body work looks the way it does. Technically, in the design, to put it lower, it's got to move forward along the curve of the nose slightly. As though it's slipping forward off the car.

 

[RustedAngel]

This is a crude drawing, so forgive me, but it illustrates what I mean. To move it lower and keep it even along the front slope, it must also move forward slightly, causing that different break line in the bodywork.

Like so...

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