GT500

Rex just got back from testing the GT500. We'll have his story soon, but here is a comment he sent me:

"When working on the 2010 Shelby GT500, engineers from Ford's Special
Vehicle Team looked into the future. And were wrong. These educated,
performance minded, and well-intentioned motorheads saw an approaching
tide of Challengers and Camaros with supercharged V-8s creating a
top echelon of pony cars significantly more powerful than the current
Challenger SRT-8 and Camaro SS. And then everything went to hell in a
handbasket regarding vehicle sales and the perceived political
correctness of superfluous vehicles. The more powerful Dodge and Chevy
never made it past the prototype stages, leaving Ford to field the
world's most powerful pony car with 540 horsepower from the venerable
iron-block, DOHC aluminum-head 5.4-liter V-8. This is a car that on a
crappy day at the drags will run in the 12s, pulling like a freight
train well into triple digits. The new GT500 also benefits from the
refinements made to the more common 2010 Mustangs, so it is quieter and
has a nicer interior than ever before. Sissies will complain about live
rear axle, but in hundreds of miles of hard driving, we couldn't get it
put a tire wrong while dancing, even when applying power in a corner
pocked by broken pavement."