Archive for August, 2006

A member of our forums contacted us yesterday to inform us their local Ford Dealership has a GT500 convertible in stock, and we wouldn’t believe the price. As we reported earlier, dealers were expected to mark up Ford’s most powerful Mustang ever… but just how much? How about $20,000 over MSRP! That’s right, Cook County Ford in south Georgia has a “bottom line price” of $68,590 for a 2007 Ford Shelby GT500 Convertible.

It doesn’t stop there. A quick check on eBay show current bids exceeding $60k with buy it now’s above $90k. Lone Star Ford in Houston, TX want’s $91,967 for their GT500 – and it’s a coupe. On their sales page, Lone Star suggests they want to become the nation’s #1 eDealer in volume sales, claiming they have the staff to do it. A “nuclear physicist”, “baptist preacher”, and “computer genius” head up their internet department. Personally, I think they need a “rocket scientist” to figure out that consumers remember price gouging, and it’s too hot in Texas to sell snowmobiles.

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With the release of Bold Moves Episode 9, Ford has officially launched the new Shelby GT Mustang. The Shelby GT is the third modern Shelby Mustang produced through a collaboration of Ford and Shelby Automobiles. In addition to the 2007 Shelby GT500, Ford and Shelby created 500 copies of the Ford Shelby GT-H, which are available only through select Hertz rental centers.

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Steve Saleen, world renowned for his modded Mustangs (over 8,000 of them at press time) and other mass produced vehicles, has opened the doors to the companies first retail outlet – The Saleen Store. The store sells an array of Saleen-branded stuff, as well as technical displays on the company’s 750-hp S7 supercar and their supercharged Saleen Mustang, and S7 racing simulators.

If that’s not enough, The Saleen Store has a Saleen N2O Bar.  For people, menu items range from ice cream, water, soda, Red Bull and oxygen.  For their cars, nitrous oxide and hydrogen are available.  The store is sure to encompass a full-range, high-octane ambience for everyone.

According to their website, Saleen has created a unique shopping experience that will undoubtedly set a new standard in the automotive and the retail industry. The Saleen Store is so different that it has created a buzz, and that buzz has traveled almost as fast as the world’s fastest production car, the Saleen S7.

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Ford starting prepping for production a retail version of the Shelby made Hertz GT-H rental car. The news was revealed to Ford dealers at a dealer meeting in Las Vegas last week. This will be the third in a potentially a long line-up of special edition Mustangs inspired and produced under Carrol Shelby’s guidance.

The car will be a 2007 model and production will be at least a few thousand. No word if the Shelby GT will differ from the rental car in any way, either visually or mechanically. Special thanks to John Neff for emailing us about this, you can find the orginal article he wrote here.

We’re not to sure what to think of this. As we reported earlier, Shelby has expressed interest in getting more special model Mustangs into production, but to rip the Hertz model this is unexpected to say the least. Ford used to own Hertz, and the ball was rolling on the Hertz GT-H revival long before the deal was made (for 5.6 billion dollars by the way) to produce a Mustang for the rental fleet.

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