Just for CAP1 a real car!

[Bronk]

The GT-R and Vette are in different classes primarily because of this.....

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Why... because it has a back seat?

Get real.

[Perrine]

GTR=$90k
Shelby GT500 Super Snake(top line)=$83k. this shelby will kick the gtr's ass, eat the entire car for lunch, and spit it out as an altima.

This?
http://www.youtube.com/v/haBopTY_D98

[CAP1]

This?
http://www.youtube.com/v/haBopTY_D98

nope......saw that one..........that's a 500hp shelby. bottom of the line as shelbys go.

EDIT:
i was wrong......685hp. still not top of the line. the top of the line super snake is adveertised at 800hp. so i'll repeat myself again. they're taking nissans top of the line car, and testing it against shelbys mediocre car. that is if you can call a shelby mediocre.

compare apples to apples.
 but then.......they call it all wrong. they try to say the stang spun. it didn't. they launched the thing off idle. no stall at all. they slipped the clutch. not how you launch when you're racing.
 then there's the fact that the vette, and stang are production line cars. seems quite a bit of the important stuff is hand built on the nissan.

[icepac]

Why... because it has a back seat?

Get real.

Yes....that back seat puts it in a different class from the two seat corvette.

Sadly, that class is occupied by a very fast mustang.

[Bronk]

Yes....that back seat puts it in a different class from the two seat corvette.

Sadly, that class is occupied by a very fast mustang.

Yea cuz a miata and a vette share the class..... 

[CAP1]

Yea cuz a miata and a vette share the class..... 

 would you believe i used to have a customer that had a 12 second miata? shoulda seen the size of the intercooler stuffed in there.

 i've got a line on a possible cheap miata right now. seems like a decent candidate for a 450 horse 5 liter, eh? 

[Masherbrum]

would you believe i used to have a customer that had a 12 second miata? shoulda seen the size of the intercooler stuffed in there.

 i've got a line on a possible cheap miata right now. seems like a decent candidate for a 450 horse 5 liter, eh? 

I'd love to have a crack at that one on a track. 

[dedalos]

nope......saw that one..........that's a 500hp shelby. bottom of the line as shelbys go.

EDIT:
i was wrong......685hp. still not top of the line. the top of the line super snake is adveertised at 800hp. so i'll repeat myself again. they're taking nissans top of the line car, and testing it against shelbys mediocre car. that is if you can call a shelby mediocre.

compare apples to apples.
 but then.......they call it all wrong. they try to say the stang spun. it didn't. they launched the thing off idle. no stall at all. they slipped the clutch. not how you launch when you're racing.
 then there's the fact that the vette, and stang are production line cars. seems quite a bit of the important stuff is hand built on the nissan.

I think it is easier for me to make some of you change religion or convert a republican to a democrat, than convince you that a Ford came in second to a car not made in Detroit.  Unpossible 

[icepac]

Car and driver put down a 11.2 quarter mile out of the new GT-R and a 0-60 time of 2.9 seconds.

As far as the super snake.....

You first have to purchase and title a $50,000 GT500 before it is then sent to shelby for the 750 or 800hp upgrades for another $30,000.

I also think the factory warranty is voided by the top shelby package.

[CAP1]

Car and driver put down a 11.2 quarter mile out of the new GT-R and a 0-60 time of 2.9 seconds.

As far as the super snake.....

You first have to purchase and title a $50,000 GT500 before it is then sent to shelby for the 750 or 800hp upgrades for another $30,000.

I also think the factory warranty is voided by the top shelby package.

it is. but that doesn't change the fact they're going apples to oranges. 

[Bronk]

I think it is easier for me to make some of you change religion or convert a republican to a democrat, than convince you that a Ford came in second to a car not made in Detroit.  Unpossible 

Ohhh it is possible but the point of comparing apples to apples applies or in this case $.

[CAP1]

I think it is easier for me to make some of you change religion or convert a republican to a democrat, than convince you that a Ford came in second to a car not made in Detroit.  Unpossible 

nope. we've all seen them. plenty of beemers and benzes that hammer the american stuff. they even beat the camaros.

[icepac]

it is. but that doesn't change the fact they're going apples to oranges. 

True...I'm comparing an apple as delivered by the manufacturer to an orange that is sent to a tuner yet still hasn't reeled off a faster time.

[CAP1]

True...I'm comparing an apple as delivered by the manufacturer to an orange that is sent to a tuner yet still hasn't reeled off a faster time.

 what does the 800hp shelby run?

 just found one report of a 10.87, and another alluded to 11.1.

In the latest issue of MM&FF, Evan Smith tested a 624hp GT350 in the 1/4 mile.
Their best time with stock tires was a 11.62 @ 122 mph. They then tested with M/T drag radials and ran a 11.55 @ 120 mph.

For comparison's sake, the two fastest Shelbys they had tested before were a 725hp Super Snake and a 540hp GT500KR.
The best 1/4 mile time for the Super Snake was 10.87 @ 134 mph on M/T ET Street tires. They didn't even try to test this beast with stock tires. :burnout:
The best 1/4 mile times for the KR were 11.92 @ 120 mph with stock tires and 11.58 @ 122 mph with M/T ET Street tires.


 i'll find the article tonight. right now, i need to go finish the leaf spring out in the shop. 

[2bighorn]

i've got a customer whose son lives in Massachusetts. he has a 2011mustang gt. he claimed 35mpg at about 80mph on the highway on his last drive down here to nj