Savage Geese reviews SVT Cobra
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Lent my car to Jack and Mark to do a review of the terminator. They really went above and beyond with this video. I hope you all enjoy it as much as I did working with them on it.
That was an accurate, entertaining and personally verifiable assessment of my experience with this car. Good, bad or indifferent, a Cobra is rude, crude and a boat load of fun to drive. Great video.
Good video. Nice to see the Terminator getting press after all of these years.
I thought it was a fair assessment of the car. Given the short development timeline & challenges to even make it in the first place, there are going to be some shortcomings. A perfect car? No. Sh*tloads of awesomeness? Hell yes.
I thought it was a fair assessment of the car. Given the short development timeline & challenges to even make it in the first place, there are going to be some shortcomings. A perfect car? No. Sh*tloads of awesomeness? Hell yes.
I've always enjoyed his brutal honesty, even if it's a little over the top!
I Love the fact that mines sitting under a cover spotless and in pristine condition in the garage, but I hate driving it now..
I'll never part ways with her tho.
I image myself washing her in driveway and then sitting on my porch drinking beer's looking at her like the move Gran Torino when I retire.. Hahaha!!!
I'll never part ways with her tho.
I image myself washing her in driveway and then sitting on my porch drinking beer's looking at her like the move Gran Torino when I retire.. Hahaha!!!
I like the brake upgrade.
You can always tell the people that didn't get into Mustangs until the Terminator showed up. They usually make comments like saying the IRS didn't show up until 2003.
Decent video overall.
Decent video overall.
Good review!
But both my c5z and c6z.....I wouldn't go overboard about superior "quality" of the interiors. Both the vettes were dog poop inside. Similar quality to the terminator. The c5z seat was horrible, bolstering was way inadequate. Cheap feeling buttons like "gages" LOL. And really, the comparison point was the fbods.....not vettes. Fbods were every bit as cheap if not cheaper feeling.
Hard to label that as a "con" when every other car in that segment 18 years ago felt the same. I think one of the best interiors from that time frame was the pontiac GTO, too bad the outside wasn't as good as the inside.
But both my c5z and c6z.....I wouldn't go overboard about superior "quality" of the interiors. Both the vettes were dog poop inside. Similar quality to the terminator. The c5z seat was horrible, bolstering was way inadequate. Cheap feeling buttons like "gages" LOL. And really, the comparison point was the fbods.....not vettes. Fbods were every bit as cheap if not cheaper feeling.
Hard to label that as a "con" when every other car in that segment 18 years ago felt the same. I think one of the best interiors from that time frame was the pontiac GTO, too bad the outside wasn't as good as the inside.
He was referencing a review he did on the C5 Z06 a few months ago, where he tore that interior apart as well. Everyone knows the interiors on these cars aren't great lol
They knew that the IRS first appeared in the 99 cobra because we talked about it while filming. Just didn't have time in the video to discuss the origin of the project, 99 cobras being recalled due to lack of power (putting egg on the face of Ford), no cobra in 2000 (aside from the R), and that whole story.
The review was great, love screaming yellow. Id do the mods they would do, suspension and brakes. Probably add a TVS blower too.
Yet they said the IRS first appeared in 2003 in the video. They didn't have to get into all the other stuff you mentioned. Saying something like it first appeared in 99, but had upgrades to handle the 03/04 power would've been better IMO.
But then I'm a previous owner of an 01 Cobra so I tend to be a little touchy when those Cobras don't get the proper credit.
I still remember when this car came out. It just caused a ruckus. It had a cult following. It will go down in history. But, it did what it had to do and retired. Thank you john and svt.
Now THAT takes me right back to late 2002. The mystique of the 2003 Cobra back then just burst through that video. The rawness of the Terminator is what made me love mine while I owned it. I remember driving my son-in-law's 2006 Z06. It was more polished that my Cobra, but I so much preferred the Cobra's kick-ass brutal rawness. That was a great video. First time I've seen it.
I actually enjoyed that. Thanks for posting it.
Maybe I need to get into some newer nicer cars but I’m quite fond of the simplicity new edge interior. Maybe because I was 16 in 2003 and drooled over these cars has something to do with that.
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nice video and cool to see it respected for the brute it was/is
It was fun watching the HP numbers climb with just basic bolt-ons and them just murdering damned near everything, they punched well above their weight class for sure.
It was fun watching the HP numbers climb with just basic bolt-ons and them just murdering damned near everything, they punched well above their weight class for sure.
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