So today I'm at phil long ford just checking out their mustangs.

In the showroom they have a gt500 and a new shelby gt(the 325 mustang gt with a scoop and some stripes)

So i'm not terribly surprised when he first tells me the gt500 would cost 65000 out the door. I'm not saying this is a good deal at all, just not surprising(although my dad's employee got her convertible for 51k)

The real joke is the shelby gt. On the window it has the sticker that shows the base price of around 30k for the gt the on the right is another sticker that says like

Mustang GT 30k
Gas Guzzler tax 1k
Shelby Gt package 27k

total suggested msrp 52k!!!!!


ahahahah I really think the guy was pissed when i laughed at him so long. So can someone please explain how the hell someone could possibly justify buying that? For two grand you can get all the same upgrades except the shelby logos, why pay almost 30 grand?

I thought it was a bit pricey when magazines estimated 36k msrp.... but DAMN 52? Someone should slap someone at that dealership.

Also, Jay Chamino (probably spelled wrong but owner of phil long) is one of my dad's clients so i think I'm going to try and find out what those things actually cost the dealership ad how much they're raping customers for.

 

it's ford.......they love to rape their own customers.

i'd rather rock out a type r

 

or an RSX

 

yea, once again proves not to buy a ford....

 

Who gives a $hit?

 

So let me get this straight......

Offer rebates, incentive and generally sell all your cars below invoice making huge losses. Then finally get a vehicle that will actually sell well, get greedy about it, and price it out of the market.

I would just by a regular GT and get the Roush makeover.

 

That's exactly what i was thinking. For the same price you could get a roush supercharged mustang with body kit and suspension improvements.... aka a faster, better handling, better looking mustang that doesn't have some old guy's name on it....

 

instead you get a nascar douchebag's name on the car--a guy who couldn't carry shelby's ********. good call, man

 

how about you go to a mustang forum and talk about mustangs, this is making me sick.....

 

+1

 

Personally I put a little more value in the actual performance of a car than the accomplisments of the guy who has his name printed on the back of it.

 

red neck would fall for it

 

i feel an urge to look up the price of an RSX for some reason...weird

 

right, because carroll shelby never created a performance car--after all, he's just an "old guy"

 

I never said he never made any performance cars. I'm just saying it doesn't make sense to buy a slower car just because the designer has built some amazing cars. That's like saying if ferrari made a new car with 2 horsepower and charged 100 grand for it that it would be worth the price because it says ferrari on it and they have made some amazing cars.

basically....

shelby>roush

but.....

Roush mustang>>> shelby gt

 

In Fairness Roush has been around for 25 years. Sure the Shelby version has more hp and is slightly faster in a straight line but they have done nothing good with the suspension. This is especially suprising considering the price. The Roush version is so much better round a track and quite frankly, unless I was driving an original, it wouldn't bother that Shelby's name is not on the car.

Both great cars though.

 

+1 This is a Z forum, who cares about the cost of a crappy car? No matter what you charge for it, its still a driving brick.

 

Mustangs....

 

Kaiser:

Why do you always bring up things that no one really cars about? I'm with Mudd and Myspivey on this one.

 

Thanks Phu...............I wanted to say it, but I'm glad someone else decided to be the a$$hole this time instead of me.....LOL