I just knew this was gonna happen!:lol: Did anybody happen to see the article on the new Mustang Shelby GT 500 layout a few months ago?
Its numbers boasted 500 horses, & 0-60 times of 4.7 sec., & a quartermile in 13.1 sec. @ 112 mph back then. I forgot which magazine that ran the layout back then.
Well anyway, ..MT magazine ran a story on the new Mustang Shelby GT 500 last month. (july issue)
And wouldn't you know, ..THEY achieved 0-60 in 4.5 sec. & a quarter mile in 12.7 @ 116 mph !
Me thinks somebody HAD to help re-invent new improved numbers that were much too comparable to our GTO's in that FIRST article months ago..:lol:
And by co-incidence, ..that same article made sure it listed the GTO, & its performance numbers, along with Dodge's Charger as not really being nowhere as fast as the Mustang Shelby GT 500.
I think most of us can admit that the Shelby mustang's BLOWER helps to give it a slight edge in performance numbers.
I just wonder as to HOW the quartermile numbers are so far apart all of a sudden from the Shelby GT 500's first drive, ie 13.1 sec. @ 112 mph to now 12.7 sec @ 116 mph?
IMO, ..I 'suspect' that when the first performance tests came out on the Mustang Shelby GT 500 months ago, ..it might have pissed off many would be buyers, ..expecting the Shelby Mustang GT 500 to run way ahead of the rest, & not be as close in performance numbers to the GTO as the FIRST performance test came out months ago.
Perhaps a bit of 'chicanery',.. ..just a little maybe??:lol:
I mean what the heck, ..the same thing happened with the retro-looking 05' GT Mustang after it first came out. First it did the 0-60 in 5.5, then they ran another & got 5.1, & then yet even another , & wallah it attained 4.9 sec.
Its numbers boasted 500 horses, & 0-60 times of 4.7 sec., & a quartermile in 13.1 sec. @ 112 mph back then. I forgot which magazine that ran the layout back then.
Well anyway, ..MT magazine ran a story on the new Mustang Shelby GT 500 last month. (july issue)
And wouldn't you know, ..THEY achieved 0-60 in 4.5 sec. & a quarter mile in 12.7 @ 116 mph !
Me thinks somebody HAD to help re-invent new improved numbers that were much too comparable to our GTO's in that FIRST article months ago..:lol:
And by co-incidence, ..that same article made sure it listed the GTO, & its performance numbers, along with Dodge's Charger as not really being nowhere as fast as the Mustang Shelby GT 500.
I think most of us can admit that the Shelby mustang's BLOWER helps to give it a slight edge in performance numbers.
I just wonder as to HOW the quartermile numbers are so far apart all of a sudden from the Shelby GT 500's first drive, ie 13.1 sec. @ 112 mph to now 12.7 sec @ 116 mph?
IMO, ..I 'suspect' that when the first performance tests came out on the Mustang Shelby GT 500 months ago, ..it might have pissed off many would be buyers, ..expecting the Shelby Mustang GT 500 to run way ahead of the rest, & not be as close in performance numbers to the GTO as the FIRST performance test came out months ago.
Perhaps a bit of 'chicanery',.. ..just a little maybe??:lol:
I mean what the heck, ..the same thing happened with the retro-looking 05' GT Mustang after it first came out. First it did the 0-60 in 5.5, then they ran another & got 5.1, & then yet even another , & wallah it attained 4.9 sec.
