This is the truth, if I could have ordered my 2007 Shelby GT500 for MSRP last fall, My wife and I would each be driving a new 2007 Ford right now. As it is we are shopping for her car everywhere else, (thanks in no small part to another stupid move by the re-badge idiots at FoMoCo, 500/Taurus) and I am now SERIOUSLY considering a new Corvette...
Ford Motor Company has incompetently dropped the ball (yet again) on this
2007 Shelby GT500, possibly the final straw that drives this life long Ford fanatic away for good.
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My Name Is Nobody
YES, Why not? Does that distorted line of thought enter into the standard
4.6 GT owners purchase plans too?
No I want it for the car, alone, not the exclusivity or the collector value. Those IDIOTS are the ones contributing to this problem. I've building home built Ford Hot Rods since the '70s, I want an opportunity to by a factory
500 horsepower Ford built Hotrod, and drive the s*it out of it! Hopefully it will be totally worn out and all used up the day I die.
This is the point! I could pay cash (even with the markup) for this car, BUT I REFUSE to get ripped off by a bunch of short sighted greedy car dealers. And that Ford does not step up production to eliminate this greedy customer abuse is the last nudge I need to push me into a Corvette!
Wrong! Ford has totally control. Anyone who says otherwise is full of s*it. It is impossible to over price sell and deliver a car Ford will not ship to you...
Which makes this greedy customer abuse even more stupid from Fords perspective! Bump up production, Fords money is being made on volume sales now, the R&D and set up costs have already been paid. Every Shelby GT500 they don't sell NOW at MSRP to a buyer ready to buy, is money out of Fords pockets...
There is no up side for Ford letting their dealer network do this s*it.
This "exclusivity argument" is a bunch of crap anyway. Some of us just want to drive it! Besides, they have art & baseball cards and other crap for collecting.
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Brent P
Exactly. Same here. Plus, the car just isn't worth that much money.
It also serves to blow the 'exclusivity' argument out of the water because with the added price, one could get a car that will be more exclusive to anyone who isn't into cars. The GT500 is going to look like just another mustang to most people. Most people won't know it's anything special. If someone wanted exclusivity and to show off, the GT500 really isn't the car.
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dwight
Right. That would be the Scion.
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