^ I understand about the holding out thing, but like I said before, cars and tech will always continue to get better. As soon as you buy it, there will be something better out there. Always. Just get what you want and what you can afford and be happy with it :)

Yeah, I understand holding out for a Mustang GT if only the 4.6 liters were available and you KNEW the 5.0s were coming in the next 6-12 months... but if you want a GT500 now, get it. They are still great cars and handle really well. If the next model is that much better and you really want it, then you can always trade up.

^ I agree. And it's not like whatever car we get next will be our LAST car. I mean come on, we're all car guys ;) I will be getting new cars till the day I die. We ALL know we will never be satisfied with "one" car.... lol.


So what I did today... (kindda like a what did you do with your 5.0 thread), I ran some errands in my 11 year old 93k mile Civic (since I have no sports car right now). After the errands, I drove by a local Ford dealer. They had a black 2012 Shelby GT500 coupe... after I walked around and drooled at that, I saw a 2010 Race Red GT, used., for sale too, with a CS package and pedestal spoiler.

My Kona will look like the red one, but will have the GT500 mufflers, which I like much better than the stock, plus the decklid spoiler. The stock mufflers look too small. The red one also had the stock front fascia, which doesn't look that bad compared to the GT/CS fascia. But anyways, I just eyed both cars, and it's making me really really really antsy. I am loving the 5.0 look even more. It's sexy in muscle car way... definitely not in a Z shape way. It's as if it knows it doesn't have the small tight curves like the Z does, but it's proud to be itself in a loud in your face way... again, Angelina Jolie like :) I love it.

Hurry up December..... this sucks.

Well I can't trade my Z up and then trade my Shelby up. I've got to play this right and keep what ever I get. I gonna keep my ear to the ground on rumors. Just HP upgrade is nice but the new gauges are really cool.

BTW, Lemers, speaking of getting a GT500 now, did you know that I ALMOST got a 2010 Used GT500 vert instead of my new 5.0? A dealer locally had a freshly traded Grabber Blue GT500 vert, with 12k miles. It was stickered at 46k. I was trying to finalize the deal for a new 5.0, when the manager comes up to me and says, "What do you think of this Shelby?"

I said, "I like it, but 46k is not within my budget". He goes, "Well tell you what, we'll let this go for $40k, plus your trade in on the Z.". I ALMOST went that route.... but didn't do it because of the value they were going to give me for my Z (which is why I didn't buy from them period), plus the grabber blue with red stripes was hideous, IMO. So I didn't compromise.

Point of story is, you can get a USED GT500 for pretty affordable. They offered that to me at $40k with NO negotiation even. I probably could have gotten it for cheaper even.

What scares me is if they were offering me $40k for that car, imagine how much they raped the owner who traded it in. Talk about devaluing...

Here's what I saw today... :drool:

Mmmm nice. I love those wheels.

What color is that?? No sale brown??

Its black.

:facepalm: thats what I get for a wise *** comment after just a quick glance. :shakes head:

:roflpuke2:

I didnt enlarge the photo, fail. I do like the wheels though, look like my Forgestars.

I need to find someone with them so I can hear them :(

Well next time you are in town come over here and we can steal this guy's car so you can listen. :bowrofl:

you should steal it and bring it into DC tomorrow:roflpuke2: