96RamAirTA

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camaro SS owers ha dont want none of the new Shelby GT350!!!!


seen no one has posted about it on here yet so thought i would looks pretty bad *** expecally campared to the GT500.


http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/...est/index.html

LS1-450

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Looks good. All of the bugs are not yet worked out on the 5.0 32v engine though. Local girl here already had her lifters replaced (less than 3k miles).

Blakbird24

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That's because they can't afford it. Niether can anyone else who wants it.

LS1LT1

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Well, not entirely true LOL.
From back in January:

https://ls1tech.com/forums/automotiv...lby-gt350.html

Sax1031

that could simply be a factory defect.

had a friend that bought a 2002 SS. Had the engine replaced around 800 miles because it dropped a lifter.

In mass production **** happens. Now if we start seeing the lifters going out on numerous 5.0s we have a problem.

LS1-450

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True. We shall see.

RPM WS6

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Impressive times for sure, but at that price it should come as no shock that it's faster than a base LS3 C6. I would expect no less.

Gaunt

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Hmm....I'm thinking the estimated price isn't too bad for the package offered.

You could obviously throw together any **** pile with lots of go fast parts together for way less than a fourth the price, but that's not the point.

justin455

True, makes you wonder if you leave off the Shelby/GT350 badging they would take 15k+ off the sticker...

WSsick

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Very impressive, but this blurs the line for the "normal" GT500. I don't know if I buy the 525hp, but it could be on very low boost. I think this is setting the stage for the GT500 to get an increase in power with a big cube (6.2?) version of the 5.0 with a blower on it....leaving the Z28 in the dust. We need the LS9!!!

DiscerningZ32

Is this going to be produced by Ford, or Shelby?

I'm feeling too lazy to try and read Motor Trends "writing."

EDIT: I didn't realize it's a Shelby package. Don't care anymore...

Lethal Z

I put this car in the same catagory as the new Z28. Great car if you got 60K to spend.

I guess im just poor. I can't even imagine an $1100-$1200 car note. Yet these car companys just pump them out like its the norm.

RPM WS6

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Hmmm... cause for a ZL1 Camaro with the LS9 perhaps?

IZRED

It's OK. But they just put out too many variations of the Mustang. Only if GM would put out more variations of the Camaro. Now that would be great.

dhowdy

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The 1340, eh?

Irunelevens

If you put this in the same category as the Z28, that kinda makes the Z28 look pretty bad...
Yeah I noticed that too

Gaunt

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I'm sure everyone here knows the REAL answer to that, but at the end of the day, people will pay for the damn stickers.

:/

Blakbird24

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How do you know? Do you know the complete specs and actual performance figures from a car that isn't even finished factory testing?

Regardless, it's kinda hard for a $63k car to make the Z28 "look bad", seeing as the Z will be more than $10k cheaper. The Z28 is meant to compete with the GT500, which I assure you it will handle just fine. Just as Ford has Shelby to build the GT350, we have SLP and Lingenfelter to destroy it.

Irunelevens

He put it in the same class as the Z28, not me. And we can certainly get a pretty good idea of how the Z28 will perform; pretty damn close to the CTS-V coupe.

justin455

I guess I should find solace in the fact that the Shelby moniker is obviously more affordable than Iacocca. That mustang was a substance per dollar atrocity.