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2013-14 Shelby GT500
Summer performance?
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<blockquote data-quote="Smackiavelli" data-source="post: 13315075" data-attributes="member: 136903"><p>Here in the suburban shadows of Manhattan Island, we've been trudging through the slop of mid to high ninety degree temperatures and 70 degree dewpoints for over a month. If you step outside your front door and walk ten feet, it feels like you're doing butterfly stroke relays through The Dead Sea. Granted, the last few days have been a bit cooler, but overall this summer has not been much of a friend to a blown car.</p><p></p><p>That said, in this airmass I am vastly unimpressed with the Shelby's performance. Sure, if you nail it in first on the F1s 30 seconds after pulling out of the driveway, you still experience the cliche of the rear end breaking loose. In no way, however, is this thing the tighty-whitey stainer it is when temps drop below 50. With the ambient heat and humidity as significant as they've been, these cars heat soak to an end of mechanical emasculation. Aside from the first couple times you run through the gears (when the motor is still cold), mine also feels sluggish and uninspiring for the number of equines that run free in the engine bay. </p><p></p><p>During this ridiculous heatwave, when she's good and warm and I give her, say, 70% throttle in first, the motor sounds decidedly suffocated. Kind of like someone with Stage 4 Emphysema hacking up a phlegm-slimed chunk of lung. There have been many times this summer that I've cracked the loud pedal only to have her fall flat on her face and struggle northward in the RPM range. A buddy of mine recently accompanied me in the Shelby on a bikini-watching excursion to a popular coastal destination not far from us. Big surprise, it was hell fire hot that day. His observation about my new ride was pretty money: "It moves out well enough. But for such a beast, this weather sure turns it into a swamp boat with its ass stuck in the mud."</p><p></p><p>You probably share my sentiments, Lethal. I'm looking forward to Fall and a new pair of Pilot Super Sports.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Smackiavelli, post: 13315075, member: 136903"] Here in the suburban shadows of Manhattan Island, we've been trudging through the slop of mid to high ninety degree temperatures and 70 degree dewpoints for over a month. If you step outside your front door and walk ten feet, it feels like you're doing butterfly stroke relays through The Dead Sea. Granted, the last few days have been a bit cooler, but overall this summer has not been much of a friend to a blown car. That said, in this airmass I am vastly unimpressed with the Shelby's performance. Sure, if you nail it in first on the F1s 30 seconds after pulling out of the driveway, you still experience the cliche of the rear end breaking loose. In no way, however, is this thing the tighty-whitey stainer it is when temps drop below 50. With the ambient heat and humidity as significant as they've been, these cars heat soak to an end of mechanical emasculation. Aside from the first couple times you run through the gears (when the motor is still cold), mine also feels sluggish and uninspiring for the number of equines that run free in the engine bay. During this ridiculous heatwave, when she's good and warm and I give her, say, 70% throttle in first, the motor sounds decidedly suffocated. Kind of like someone with Stage 4 Emphysema hacking up a phlegm-slimed chunk of lung. There have been many times this summer that I've cracked the loud pedal only to have her fall flat on her face and struggle northward in the RPM range. A buddy of mine recently accompanied me in the Shelby on a bikini-watching excursion to a popular coastal destination not far from us. Big surprise, it was hell fire hot that day. His observation about my new ride was pretty money: "It moves out well enough. But for such a beast, this weather sure turns it into a swamp boat with its ass stuck in the mud." You probably share my sentiments, Lethal. I'm looking forward to Fall and a new pair of Pilot Super Sports. [/QUOTE]
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