I agree that they have good engineers. I would actually argue that you get what you pay for when you buy one, however having said that, because of the 2020-2021 inflation spike, it now costs $160K for a car that would've cost $80K in 2019, and most people simply don't have that kind of...
Super happy I waited till other options came out. Just ordered the MP Concepts chin spoiler and grille. I don't have a lift nor a ramp, so will probably pay a local body shop to install both since they can do it a lot faster and with a much better view.
Not a fan of the grille either. I really like Shelby's grille, but nobody's offering a "Shelby style" or "GT350 style" grille yet for the S650's, so I'm planning on ordering the MP Concepts front grille when it gets back in stock. It seems a lot simpler and basically just a pony delete. Will let...
https://www.shelby.com/Vehicles/2025-Shelby-GT350
Thoughts?
$110K+ is a stretch for me for mostly a GT with a whipple and some stripes, and no convertible option. At that price point I'd prefer a brand new Z06 or a 718 Cayman/Boxster GTS 4.0, although similar to the Super Snake I do like the...
Agreed, the stubby is a must! I like what Shelby did with their 2024 super snake convertible spoilers, but it doesn't seem like an easy mod. They talk about it in this video at about the 32 minute mark:
There can be a noticeable dyno difference between just running when it's cold outside vs. hot outside, or running with regular unleaded gas vs. 93 octane with octane booster. Would be pretty easy to manipulate the numbers by doing little things like that to make the case for something else...
What are the pro's and con's of removing the carbon traps in the air boxes? I was told that by removing them I'd get about the same horsepower boost as if I replaced the air boxes with washable filters (K&N, Steeda, etc.), and that there wouldn't even be that much of a difference between doing...
Comparing COVID to measles is an apples-to-oranges comparison.
The scale of spending for COVID-19 was unprecedented, with trillions of dollars allocated not just for direct health responses but also for economic stimulus, unemployment benefits, direct payments to individuals, support for...
Basically any major asset bought before 2020, which is when the government started printing TRILLIONS of dollars out of thin air for unnecessary COVID relief and quantitative easing, was bought at a great deal before inflation spiraled out of control.
If had I bought any major asset before...
Some critics are saying the S650 is basically just the S550 with more screens on the inside. That's an over-generalization, obviously, but if I started out with an S550 I wouldn't have made the leap and put up the extra coin for the S650. If the steering and chassis were noticeably improved...
The ecoboost doesn't get enough credit, in my opinion. It's a really good looking car for the price, and makes a lot more sense for city drivers who aren't doing much speeding or canyon carving (the latter of which camaros are better at anyway).
It's 0-60 time is less than a second slower than...
That's not so crazy, in my opinion, considering that a lot of BMW's and Porsche's have a similar gap between trim levels based mostly on engine differences.
My daily driver is a '25 BMW 330i with a turbo 4 with a MSRP of $46k. The M340i is basically the same car but with a turbo inline 6 and...
As someone who also worked for a US manufacturing company, of $100K+ industrial products in my case, I concur that pricing is more based on costs than profits. Our profit margin percentage stayed about the same the whole time I was at the company; the only reason our prices went up is because...
The Dark Horse is a proper track car
The Dark Horse is a formidable track car! That's the main difference between it and the GT in my opinion. In some track tests it's putting up better times than the ZL1, Mach 1, and GT500, so I would consider it priced very competitively for what you get...
The vette is a huge success so I don't blame GM for focusing on that. The C8 looks like a Ferrari but costs a third the price. It's also taking Porsche's lunch because it costs about the same as the 718 but has a lot more features, and just its base model is lot faster than their turbo 4's.
If...