Comments on: Ford Mustang Shelby GT-H Racer Review

By: xder345

xder345 — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 02:04:00 +0000

I just had a GT-H pass me yesterday on I-40 in Durham, NC. I almost got into a wreck because of it. I’m just cruising along in the Freestyle (GREAT vehicle by the way) on my way home from work…I notice some gold stripes in the rearview, then the hood pins register in the brain…and before you know it, it’s flown by me must of been at 95 or so (I was running 80). I almost crapped myself. One because I am currently building a scale model of the original GT-H, and two, because I was paying too much attention watching it weave in and out of traffic and started wandering lanes…

It really does look quite aggressive. The body mods have done something great to the car (the regular GT just looks so plain now) and the grill is fabulous…

By: cretinx

cretinx — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 20:50:47 +0000

5 speed slushbox ?

only 25 extra hp from all those modifications?

meh, beats renting a Cobalt.

By: jar527

jar527 — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 20:29:36 +0000

Granted the majority of Mustangs purchased are of the V6 automatic variety and of these a substantial portion will be driven by the fairer sex BUT the GT demographics sway much farther in the other direction. And if the number of females driving a vehicle determines whether or not itâ€™s a chick vehicle then any and all SUVs would have to be labeled as such.

By: fellswoop

fellswoop — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 19:04:12 +0000

Worries about driving “chick car” = Nobody knows I have a small penis.

By: Jonny Lieberman

Jonny Lieberman — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 18:16:15 +0000

Uh… Kevin… that’s not true.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 18:13:22 +0000

Now if we could just get women to stop buying Mustangs and chickifying the brand. (Uh… no offense to women.) Because face it guys, this has practically become a chick car now.

By: Jonny Lieberman

Jonny Lieberman — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 16:56:15 +0000

The sad part, though, is why the hell isn’t Ford doing anything remotely similar with the rest of their products?

I really can’t believe that the company who can generate this much excitement (you all should have seen the people milling about the parking lot foaming at the mouth over these cars) is the same company that’s going to lose $90,000,000,000,000,000 this quarter… Weird.

By: jar527

jar527 — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 16:09:41 +0000

Don’t forget about the GT/CS package and a Bullitt is coming next year.

Most of the large Ford Dealers offer the Ford Performance Packages as dealer installed options that can be financed with the car. So you could have all the performance of the Shelby GT-H for an additional $2,500+/- with a 5/60 warranty.

I like all the variations, it shows just how versatile and how much potential this platform has.

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By: Jonny Lieberman

Jonny Lieberman — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 02:46:30 +0000

Dean,

All those, plus convertible version of a bunch of ‘em, plus new iterations in the works.

I’m thinking a Shelby GT-R

By: dean

dean — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 23:18:53 +0000

Let me see if I get this straight. There is now a:

Mustang
Mustang GT
Shelby GT
Shelby GT-H
Shelby GT500

Is this right? Or by Shelby GT you mean GT500?

By: ktm

ktm — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:57:09 +0000

Just another way to part fools with their money. If you are going to blow a wad of cash on renting a high performance vehicle, do it right and rent a Viper. This is nothing more than, as Jonny said, what the Mustang GT should have been.

Hell, you can make your Mustang GT into this car if you are willing to part with a bit of cash. There is nothing in the car that you can not buy in the aftermarket.

By: Jonny Lieberman

Jonny Lieberman — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:30:07 +0000

just to re-reitierate: even armed with that knowledge (dam it — too late!), the Traction Control really isn’t an issue.

They did a bang up job with the handling, so unlike the regular GT, the GT-H has no understeer at all — a pretty neat trick with a front-heavy car.

By: BimmerHead

BimmerHead — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:21:04 +0000

Wow… kind of suprising that Edmunds would let that cat out of the bag… not that it takes a genious to remove a jumper from a switch, but how many people will now rent a GT-H becasue they now know how to re-enable the traction control disable switch?

meh… probably not that many.

By: tms1999

tms1999 — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:05:55 +0000

If the nanny was on in this video, she was sound asleep:

http://videos.streetfire.net/video/b8e1114f-9ba8-4048-bdee-982a016f6d42.htm

By: qfrog

qfrog — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 17:54:29 +0000

Curent C&D had a bit on that car… Some of their staff had bills of like $1100 – $1500 per car for 3 or so days of use. I think the rate varied by where your destination airport is… and you’ve gotta show a ticket to get one as a rental… and I think some hertz locations charge a say hello fee or some nonsense like that. It is safe to say that you can rack up an absurd tab if you go about it just right.

By: dolo54

dolo54 — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 17:10:04 +0000

you gotta watch the video in that link. oh man that is beautiful!

By: dolo54

dolo54 — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:58:10 +0000

well just in case you DO want it off – I found this little nugget. “Out of the driveway, stop at the light, push the traction control (TCS) button â€” nothing. Pull to the side of the road. About 20 seconds and a persuasive pocket knife later we’re holding the TCS button and the paper clip-looking mischief-deterrent that was lodged behind it. Reinstall. Push the button â€” TCS off. This pony is free of its saddle.” Thanks Edmonds!

By: mikey

mikey — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:38:04 +0000

You guys make a great case,for not buying recycled rental cars.

By: Jonny Lieberman

Jonny Lieberman — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:28:24 +0000

Dolo — you don’t need it off.

I mean, you are not going to lay rubber, but hit your turns wide and late and that rear will slide.

By: dolo54

dolo54 — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 15:56:36 +0000

I will definitely be renting this bad boy. I rented the v6 convertible recently and was able to turn off the tcm. Which led to a session of burnouts and donuts in a ‘less than populated’ area. I can understand why they would disable the button on this one, but I wonder if there is a way to hack the turn off, perhaps through a combo of key turns and brake presses (like on some other cars). Anyhow if I find out I will post it here…

By: Sajeev Mehta

Sajeev Mehta — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 15:34:11 +0000

Good work boys, now go play with all the other models.

Amen to that! Send them over to Team Five Hundred’s camp.

By: Martin Albright

Martin Albright — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 15:27:07 +0000

Is the rental thing some kind of marketing ploy to bring publicity to the more mundane Mustang or GT? I guess I don’t get it. Why sell only to a rental company when there are lots of folks out there ready to lay down cash on this thing?

BTW, I saw one of these on the way to work last week and it was stunning. I’m normally not a “car guy” but this one was sweet. The one I saw was a deep royal blue, all I can say is the pictures don’t do it justice.

By: doctorv8

doctorv8 — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 15:20:11 +0000

In the picture at the top of the article, it appears that the new car is in the foreground; however, the cars are actually side by side. The new one is just that friggin huge. ;-)

By: GS650G

GS650G — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 14:46:47 +0000

It’s about time.

I only wonder what the next model of mustang is going to look like. They can’t keep making 1968 clones forever, or can they?