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<blockquote data-quote="Cman01" data-source="post: 16281884" data-attributes="member: 138028"><p>I'm not calling you or anybody out on the weight pulling thing, I am just saying that it is not easy to remove that amount of weight out of this car or any car and keep some resemblance of the intent of the car from the factory.</p><p></p><p>Tell me, where do you think the 500 lbs. are going to come from out of this car??? You pull the pass. seat, strip out all the trunk stuff and what else??? That's not 500 lbs. You're lucky if it's even close to 50-70 lbs.</p><p></p><p>Again, the normal person that scrapes together the $100k+ to buy this car IS NOT going to empty the contents of this car to lose that amount of weight that's all I'm saying. Sure, you have the rich folks that have the cash and don't care and in that case sure go ti and magnesium, CF everything if you can find items made in those materials to replace what you pull out. Whether you can do it or not doesn't matter it's not realistic to the majority of people here so simply suggesting "lose 500 lbs. out of this car" is total BS IMO.</p><p></p><p>Mentioning the Bugatti here is comical, if you're playing with $2M cars this car to those people is like me buying a Ford Festiva to play with.</p><p></p><p>The GTR thing, Nissan, other Japanese auto manufacturers that have a decent history in auto racing and most European auto makes have always done more with less. The American big 3 always have had the history of big...…………….bigger engines, bigger hp, bigger cars. They've always relied on big to compete and at times beat the Asian and Euro makes in competition, but other times they weren't able to get the job done. Bigger isn't always better as they say.</p><p></p><p>The 08 GTR had the power, handling, and the tech at that time to defy logic in automobile performance even with its heavy weight, an 08 Shelby wasn't even close in performance to the same model year GTR. Ford with the new GT500 is kinda tapping into that technology like what you mentioned and obviously it shows promise...……………...we just need to know the rest of the stats of this car to truly grasp the total performance it offers BUT...……………….there's a reason why a GTR is nicknamed "Godzilla"...………….Godzilla this Shelby is not!!!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cman01, post: 16281884, member: 138028"] I'm not calling you or anybody out on the weight pulling thing, I am just saying that it is not easy to remove that amount of weight out of this car or any car and keep some resemblance of the intent of the car from the factory. Tell me, where do you think the 500 lbs. are going to come from out of this car??? You pull the pass. seat, strip out all the trunk stuff and what else??? That's not 500 lbs. You're lucky if it's even close to 50-70 lbs. Again, the normal person that scrapes together the $100k+ to buy this car IS NOT going to empty the contents of this car to lose that amount of weight that's all I'm saying. Sure, you have the rich folks that have the cash and don't care and in that case sure go ti and magnesium, CF everything if you can find items made in those materials to replace what you pull out. Whether you can do it or not doesn't matter it's not realistic to the majority of people here so simply suggesting "lose 500 lbs. out of this car" is total BS IMO. Mentioning the Bugatti here is comical, if you're playing with $2M cars this car to those people is like me buying a Ford Festiva to play with. The GTR thing, Nissan, other Japanese auto manufacturers that have a decent history in auto racing and most European auto makes have always done more with less. The American big 3 always have had the history of big...…………….bigger engines, bigger hp, bigger cars. They've always relied on big to compete and at times beat the Asian and Euro makes in competition, but other times they weren't able to get the job done. Bigger isn't always better as they say. The 08 GTR had the power, handling, and the tech at that time to defy logic in automobile performance even with its heavy weight, an 08 Shelby wasn't even close in performance to the same model year GTR. Ford with the new GT500 is kinda tapping into that technology like what you mentioned and obviously it shows promise...……………...we just need to know the rest of the stats of this car to truly grasp the total performance it offers BUT...……………….there's a reason why a GTR is nicknamed "Godzilla"...………….Godzilla this Shelby is not!!!! [/QUOTE]
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