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Waiting til 2011 is just the smart thing to do. At worst, a few lost months, at best, save $K's on a <2011 or get a 5.0 (which may, or may not have 1st run issues). This isn't the same as never buying - from 2004 to 2009, no reason to wait, but when the rumour-mill runs like it is now...

Ah, now someone's thinking! I'm not sure buying any recent MY Mustang is a "bad idea" - paying too much for one may be, though. Anyone considering a 2010 should definately wait until next year - if you have a price you can go to, but not much higher, if the rumours come true about the 2011...

Assuming the 2010 handles like the 2005+ models, I can testify to how good the Mustang handles front impacts. Going 45-50 mph, someone pulled out right in front of me and -BLAM-. Wife had some bruising, but the only real injury I had was of my own doing. My injury? From laying the heel of...

Oh, dear Lord, please don't let that be my phonetic spelling of 'education'! If so, I apologise that 'education' sounds that way. Wait, no, I'm not sorry - if it is a reference to my comment, stop being a moron and read what I wrote for what it was. Seems like we got a double-scoop of...

:mad: This is clearly the Ronaele! Johnny, is this your car...?

Given weight, stance, etc, I bet the z06 would humiliate the Super Snake on a twisty track. For daily use and personal enjoyment, however, the pony beats the vette as easily as the vette takes the track-meet. Let's face it, the choice of Senior Hairdressers everywhere, the Porsche Boxter...

That makes a lot more sense than the 'vette. One, that pony will destroy the 'vette, end of story. Two, even the "plain-ole" GT500 will be the only car you'd see, if you stuck it in the middle of a lot full of 'vettes, never mind that beauty. I'm a Corvette fan, but at the end of the day...

I apologise - I took the post COMPLETELY the wrong way! You were meaning it in a "Homer buys Marge a bowling-ball for her birthday" kind of way, and I took it in a "wimmin should stick to their chores" kind of way. Sorry, my bad!

???:lol: I thought I'd made my post so patently tongue-in-cheek as to be obvious that I was deriding the original post?:bang: I mean, women CAN vote, right? Sheesh, chill out, sista-girl! Maybe want to read wot's written, afore you go off all 1/2-cocked!

...and don't forget - the right to vote? being allowed to work? skirts higher than the ankle? I'm right on board with this thread. My wife somehow got it into her head that she would like a Mustang. After finishing up her chores, she broached the subject. Before she had even finished...

I believe he's saying you have to pay the GG Tax, regardless of whether you get the Shelby, or the Base GT. Though I didn't have to pay, and I'm also in CA. So his economics are still sound - only the question as to whether the tax is applicable to all GT's or not stands. The extra sales tax...

Bu-da-yum! VB, you got :owned: BIG TIME!

quick - edit your post. The fight is about the Shelby GT, not the GT500. I'll edit this post, once you're done, and no-one will be any the wiser:nice:

Re-read the article, and you'll see that their reference to a "$26,440" Mustang merely related to the fact that the fun experienced in Shelby GT is the same fun you can have in a baseline Mustang GT (cos, you get the same 4.6). So, C&D aren't wrong - you just either cannot read, or are...

That's $6K in panels...warranty...prestige. Not such a huge hike, now, is it - split that $6K between the 3 (use any reasonable ratio) and the overpricing isn't so bad. The facts speak for themselves - you're just wrong, plain and simple. Yep, there's a markup in there, but it's in the low...

Cool, $27,620 Base for a Premium GT. We'd need to use the Premium, for a fair like-for-like comparison. Which is another $1200 we need to factor in, V Barb's Fairy of Judicious Rounding, not withstanding.

Wife - Really? You - Yep. Well, that's what I'd PLANNED on, but I got the install work done at the local $100-per-hour Ford dealership, so it cost me $2000 to get the parts on. Cool, though, huh? Wife - so, $8K in panels? You - Yep! ...(pause)... You - Ok, $7530 in panels, but...

Now THAT is taking the freakin p!ss! I agree - at $52K, the term "Shelby GT" would need to have the suffix "500"!

Let's try it this way (true faux-Shelby v's Real Deal), some rough figures - Call it $3K for the performance parts, bought and shipped. $1000-1500 for install of all the perf parts (based off this list - springs, sway bars, strut brace, intake, shifter, mufflers, x-pipe, 3:55 gears)...

That's the first Shelby GT I've seen pics of - NICE!!!:nice: The only thing which doesn't make sense is the premise of this thread - "You can build a Shelby GT-knockoff for WAY less than you can buy one...um...if you don't include all the parts...and don't have what parts you do buy...