I indeed agree with you on this one but man I gotta be honest when I had my 2000 GT with just a MAC Exhaust on it I test Drove a 99 Cobra as I was thinking of trading it in. The Cobra honestly felt slower than my GT I walked away from that car very unimpressed. It may have been that the car was never fixed to make the factory rated numbers but none the less I can see why the 99/01 cobras get a bad wrap. :rolling:
Then you didn't wring it out. Unless you run a 99/01 all the way to 6500 it will feel slightly slower than a 2V GT. WOT at 3600 is magical.
After I wrecked my 02 GT I just wanted the exact same car I had. I saw the Cobra on a lot driving by and took it out for a test drive. Tooling around town it felt like a bunch of torque was just GONE. Then I punched it from a dead stop and damn near shit my pants.
And the IRS is a good thing to some of us....;-)