I had exactly the opposite experience. They fawned over my car. They encouraged me to park my car right in front to get a pic. They even gave me a couple of FREE stickers. They could not have been more enthusiastic about my car.
Thanks for this info, we will be stoping by Shelby in Las Vegas on our trip out west this year in our GT350 looking forward to stoping there, then we are going to Laughlin Nevada, for a few days, then on to Phoenix Arizona, for few days, on to Long Beach Calif, for a few days, then on to San Diego California, and then home the Southern route..... :cheers: JohnI had exactly the opposite experience. They fawned over my car. They encouraged me to park my car right in front to get a pic. They even gave me a couple of FREE stickers. They could not have been more enthusiastic about my car.
If you want to get technical with it, Shelby American hasn't "built" a car in years. They just bolt on parts made by others and slap on the Shelby name. The body kits for the 2011-14 GT350s were made by CDC and most, if not all of the go-fast bits were made by Ford Racing. There's very little engineering and "hot rodding" as ole Shelby would have said going on there anymore.
Yea, this is the age old battle informed Mustang people have with uninformed ones. I remember going on a tour through Flat Rock Assembly a few years ago and a guy that was with us noticed a GT500 going down the line and he was flabbergasted and would not accept that the GT500 was not made by "Shelby". It is in fact 100% designed, developed, engineered and produced by Ford Motor Company.
Not quite the same association, but close. BMW makes a few cars that have an M-sport package that wear an M-badge, but are not true M-cars, the M235i, for instance. Great cars, but not true M-cars.
I'm curious about this statement. I know several people that work at SVT. I've dealt with SVT several times over recent years on an ongoing basis. The GT500 and GT350 are SVT developments. SVT is currently hard at work getting the 2017 Raptor ready (a vehicle which I have content in). SVT & RS both are rolled into Ford Performance, but both groups are still intact and still at work.
"SVT" as a name and as a marketing entity do in fact no longer exist. SVT/RS/ST/Ford Racing are now simply Ford Performance. Yes, all the same people still work in the same buildings on the same projects, but you will never see an SVT vehicle again, and the people who worked for SVT, now simply work for Ford Performance.
If you want to even go back further than "SVT" there was the "SVO" (Special Vehicle Operations) department that started back in ~1981 and oversaw the Ford Racing and High Performance vehicles way back then.
