http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/22/video-havent-you-always-wondered-roush-vs-saleen/ Autoblog Comments for VIDEO: Haven't you always wondered? ROUSH vs. SALEEN http://www.autoblog.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.autoblog.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/22/video-havent-you-always-wondered-roush-vs-saleen/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/22/video-havent-you-always-wondered-roush-vs-saleen/Feb 22nd 2008 4:54PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/22/video-havent-you-always-wondered-roush-vs-saleen/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/22/video-havent-you-always-wondered-roush-vs-saleen/Feb 22nd 2008 5:07PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/22/video-havent-you-always-wondered-roush-vs-saleen/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/22/video-havent-you-always-wondered-roush-vs-saleen/Feb 22nd 2008 4:54PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/22/video-havent-you-always-wondered-roush-vs-saleen/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/22/video-havent-you-always-wondered-roush-vs-saleen/
Not so much. Under 6 seconds perhaps, but neither of those cars are light enough for their power rating to be 4-second cars to 60 MPH.

Mustangs are not lightweights, and neither is the IS350, really, when considering other cars like Miata or Sky, or even lighter Lotus Elise, and others that are truly lightweight cars.

Mustangs that cost more than 40k are anathema to me, anyway, and 40k is my idea of a generous upper limit. It's a MUSTANG. they are nice, but they've always supposed to have been an average-joe affordable car, even in the upper ranges. There are cars much nicer than the Mustang at the prices these factory and aftermarket specials demand.

I am not positive, but I don't even think that Fox-bodied Saleen Mustangs, or the 93 SVT Cobra were as outlandishly priced as these, adjusted for time value of money. 60k is 50% higher than the average household annual income (gross, not net) in this country, of ~$40k

The only thing that allows a car like Mustang, even aftermarket versions, to push above $50k or $60k is easy consumer credit. We all know how that is starting to bite the economy back.
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427R is still available in 2008.

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Stick to driving cars, Derek. Leave the presenting to guys like the 3 Top Gear "blokes". Hell, I'd rather watch Alan Decadanet, and he can be pretty stiff sometimes.


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3356 lbs my A$$.
That number is like 400 lbs off.

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3356 is lighter than my 95GT.]]>Feb 23rd 2008 12:43AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/22/video-havent-you-always-wondered-roush-vs-saleen/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/22/video-havent-you-always-wondered-roush-vs-saleen/
What cracks me up the most is that these two vehicles could smack the crap out of a GT500. Now, if this is what the GT500 was really like from the factory and not the 4k lbs pig it really is, I would have more respect for it. What is even more funny is that these things (I can never find the same weights online) weigh significantly less than a GT500...take note Ford engineers...]]>Feb 23rd 2008 6:09PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/22/video-havent-you-always-wondered-roush-vs-saleen/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/22/video-havent-you-always-wondered-roush-vs-saleen/The rims alone are 70 lbs each with a tire on them, like 30lbs more than stock ones.
Add a body kit, bigger brakes, larger rims, that adds up to more than any regular mustang, no matter how you slice it.

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