You weren't kidding on price. I sent a request to a dealer I know and he came back at $36500 on a SHO with MSRP of $42,900. Pretty tempting actually.
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Haha. Good stuff man. Congrats on the purchase. Now you need to make a mod thread.cloud9 said:Well we were driving over today talking about color and at that point she was leaning toward white. There was a little water on the roads and as we were rolling down the interstate I pointed out that all the cars that were dirty looked dirty....i.e. if you have a dirty car it doesn't really matter what color it is.....so we got there and she looked at the black one on the showfloor and said I'll take that one lol
It's going out for window tinting tomorrow and we'll pick it up sometime this week and take it on our road trip next weekend.
It has paddle shiffers on the steering wheel. It's actually kind of cool. When you click the downshift on the left or the upshift on the right, it brings up a digital tach on the left side of the dash showing RPM and current gear. It does shift relatively early when in Drive. You can put it in Sport mode on the console shifter and then just manully shift. It does shift a little earlier than you'd like if you were drag racing, but if you're WOT it will go close to redline before shifting. I think the Livernois tune adjusts that if you want higher and quicker shifts. At this point I don't know if she wants it tuned or not since in her opinion "it has plenty of power" especially compared to her V6 Mustang or the V8 Eddie Bauer Explorer that she's coming out of now.CaliMR said:How is the tranny on those, as far as whether it forces you into high gear? All the Fords I have driven lately (and most other cars for that matter), unless they are a "sports" car the trannies shift so early that it makes the big motors almost moot since it is in 6th by like 30 mph.
Yes 20s....thought they looked better than the 19" aluminum spoked wheels. Hey, not my car but I'll drive this when necessary as opposed to the pink striped Mustang convertible she tradedracered302 said:The rims looked like gigantic flowers, perfect for a lady. Where they the 20'? Nice looking car.
Well I didn't try it yet so can't say for sure. I asked the dealer salesperson if it was as you described but he thought it was all manual but didn't know for sure either lol. I said if it's all manual you'd just bang off the rev limiter until you manually shifted it?? I guess I'll try it out next week some time and let you know. At the end of the day it's probably going to be in drive 99% of the time.PeteInCT said:Does it raise the shift points in Sport mode or is that Manual only? My TTS DSG tranny worked that way.
After kicking it around we decided against the track (performance) package. Realistically at 4350 lbs I'm not going to put it on the track when I already have two track Mustangs to kick in the teeth. Combine that with the summer tires and I'd have to drop an other 3 grand for winter wheels/tires and it would just be one more thing to maintain, The thought is we might actually just leave this one stockjimprw said:Nice add to the family stable. You may eventually have to pick her up a vintage Mustang because as nice as the SHO is she'll miss the little pony. But, in the meantime, she should really enjoy a top-level high performance sedan for typical driving, road trips and commuting.
Did you get the track package?
Hmm. Not a bad idea. She told me I wasn't getting one, but she didn't say SHE wasn't getting one.PeteInCT said:I think he should buy her a GT40 and invite us all over for dinner and a test drive. No ?
cloud9 said:Hmm. Not a bad idea. She told me I wasn't getting one, but she didn't say SHE wasn't getting one.PeteInCT said:I think he should buy her a GT40 and invite us all over for dinner and a test drive. No ?
Will do if we ever get any sunny days. Of course this time of year it's only up for what seems a couple hours We went out for dinner last night so we took it instead of the pickup. It was my first chance to really drive it and I was really impressed. It have amazing power for a sedan and I took it through this roundabout near our house almost as fast as in the Boss. I was amazed at how well it handled even without the PP. I asked my wife if she thought it was too "rough" and she gave me this puzzled look....."not when I'm used to riding around in your track prepped Mustangs" ;Djimprw said:Gary, post pics when you can. Especially after the window tint, I'll bet the SHO will look badass. Love those cars.