2012 gt600?

ImportConvert · 06-09-2011, 11:34 PM

600bhp on 285's with a junk differential, SRA, and no FAY's setup...
What other good jokes does Ford know?

shadoquad · 06-09-2011, 11:37 PM

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Originally Posted by ImportConvert

600bhp on 285's with a junk differential, SRA, and no FAY's setup...
What other good jokes does Ford know?

Not sure on tire width or diff, but check this out from the article...

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Originally Posted by article

Take a very close look at those rear wheels and, from certain angles, they appear to have a mind of their own. We mean this as a compliment. That’s because in the land of Mustang, every current model continues to have a live rear axle. So does this big, bad new Mustang have independent rear suspension? It sure looks that way, based on the apparent wheel angles. Independent rear suspension does seem long overdue, and it would only make sense for the next Ford Mustang to take the fight to the competition on equal footing—if you don’t mind the pun.

Obviously, that's still speculation, but hey...

Isamu · 06-09-2011, 11:41 PM

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Originally Posted by ImportConvert

600bhp on 285's with a junk differential, SRA, and no FAY's setup...
What other good jokes does Ford know?

I'm pretty sure that says Shelby.. not ford... just sayin

ImportConvert · 06-10-2011, 01:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Isamu

I'm pretty sure that says Shelby.. not ford... just sayin

Whatever it says, Carrol Shelby was hired in the 60's by Ford to improve the mustang and when he suggested IRS they were butthurt over the small price increase. I think we all know what CS would have put under the car if he REALLY had his way. Ford is just whoring his name for a small fee to make a chunk of change for themselves. You don't actually think Shelby was behind it, do you? Ford has been tearing Shelby a new one and using him for years now. I love how they hamstrung CS on his GT350 and then came out with the $40K BOSS203 which tore it up in testing right about the same time CS was able to get parts from Ford and came out with his $60K+ GT350.

Ford sure sells a lot of cars, and good on them, but I LOL at their politics and customers most of the time.

The article cited is junk. The '12 mustang is already on showroom floors. The GT500 for '12 has 550bhp and 285's out back just like the '11. They can't even get the year-model of the car being driven correct, (it's a YM13 test-mule--maybe--as those are out. Who knows what car they took pictures of really.). Why would I trust them to judge the suspension under a car based on the angle of a tire in a few shady photographs? All it takes is the driver weaving one way or another and that log will tilt (and the rims with it) and make ONE tire look like it has + camber or - camber and hiding the other tire from view in the photo does nothing to prove one way or another.

shadoquad · 06-11-2011, 07:24 PM

lol man you're entertaining. on so many levels.

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Originally Posted by ImportConvert

Whatever it says, Carrol Shelby was hired in the 60's by Ford to improve the mustang and when he suggested IRS they were butthurt over the small price increase. I think we all know what CS would have put under the car if he REALLY had his way. Ford is just whoring his name for a small fee to make a chunk of change for themselves. You don't actually think Shelby was behind it, do you? Ford has been tearing Shelby a new one and using him for years now. I love how they hamstrung CS on his GT350 and then came out with the $40K BOSS203 which tore it up in testing right about the same time CS was able to get parts from Ford and came out with his $60K+ GT350.

Ford sure sells a lot of cars, and good on them, but I LOL at their politics and customers most of the time.

The article cited is junk. The '12 mustang is already on showroom floors. The GT500 for '12 has 550bhp and 285's out back just like the '11. They can't even get the year-model of the car being driven correct, (it's a YM13 test-mule--maybe--as those are out. Who knows what car they took pictures of really.). Why would I trust them to judge the suspension under a car based on the angle of a tire in a few shady photographs? All it takes is the driver weaving one way or another and that log will tilt (and the rims with it) and make ONE tire look like it has + camber or - camber and hiding the other tire from view in the photo does nothing to prove one way or another.

Isamu · 06-11-2011, 07:30 PM

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Originally Posted by shadoquad

lol man you're entertaining. on so many levels.

DON'T FEED THE TROLLS...

ImportConvert · 06-12-2011, 12:57 AM

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Originally Posted by shadoquad

lol man you're entertaining. on so many levels.

Have you been a Ford employee?
Have you driven the cars or raced them or against them?
Considering that I beleive it was you who bought their car with a peg leg just for its looks, I don't know what you are interested in besides stirring the pot. Hell, you just want looks. This thread is like Charlie sheen. It's about GO

Isamu · 06-12-2011, 06:48 AM

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Originally Posted by ImportConvert

Have you been a Ford employee?
Have you driven the cars or raced them or against them?
Considering that I beleive it was you who bought their car with a peg leg just for its looks, I don't know what you are interested in besides stirring the pot. Hell, you just want looks. This thread is like Charlie sheen. It's about GO

dude, it started to smell like "winning" the moment you came in brah...

ImportConvert · 06-12-2011, 08:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Isamu

dude, it started to smell like "winning" the moment you came in brah...

All you two had to do was say "We don't know much about Ford/Mustangs/etc. please don't get to deep on the topic" rather than having to de-rail the thread because you don't have a damn clue what it's about when someone goes a bit further in depth with it.

Or it could be like plenty other tech threads on this site. It stays technical for 1, maybe 2 pages, and then turns into the petty crap lots of sites out there are known for.

In the end though, I'm going to go back to playing with my 500+ horsepower American V8's and Italian shotguns and you are going to say whatever it is you want to say and I'm really not going to give a damn about it because you're just some guy on the internet and I don't get to wound up over it, even though it is fun to talk a bit of smack now and then when you're bored, the point remains that your opinion/thoughts are entertaining and that's about it until you have something to offer that I can profit from. I have yet to see that, though. You like to just run your keyboard and that's fine. I take mine out for a spin now and then as well.

However, I enjoyed expressing my views on the GT500 as it's one of the cars I considered and I hope maybe to help someone who is also considering it if I can have cleared up any vagaries for them.

shadoquad · 06-12-2011, 09:59 AM

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Originally Posted by ImportConvert

Have you been a Ford employee?
Have you driven the cars or raced them or against them?
Considering that I beleive it was you who bought their car with a peg leg just for its looks, I don't know what you are interested in besides stirring the pot. Hell, you just want looks. This thread is like Charlie sheen. It's about GO

Dude wtf? All I said was that you're entertaining. Why are you ranting on me? All I said at the beginning of this was that the article "speculated IRS".

There's no need to make personal insult posts. I've done you no wrong in this thread.

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