Car & Driver Dec, 06 issue has an article on the new FR500GT. Looks like a great out of the box racer but $225,000?????? I don't guess there gonna sell a lot of them. One of the lows pointed out in the article "Wonky pedal, numb brakes. You can find a faster car for $225,000." Car looks great, but last years was what $125,000. WTF???
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The FR500C is $125,000(code name Boy Racer). FR500GT is $225,000(code name MANRACER). Two totally different cars. Davis would like to get some kind of Trans Am series going again.
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bobosfocus said:
Boy, Man , Cat, Dog, whatever....$225,000???:shrug: :dw:
firemanmike said:
I read that article, too. "Wonky pedal"? WTF does that mean? Anyway, C&D, R&T pretty much suck, I just picked that up @ the airport for something to read. I would never trust their opinion anyway. $225 is a lot of $$$ though....
firemanmike said:
Both cars are performance bargains for the type of racing series they were designed to compete in.
The "Boy Racer" was so sucessful that race officials required changes to slow it down or it wouldn't be allowed to compete - that's how far ahead of the competition it was... :burnout:
I think the hood looks bad ass.
go build your own and see if you can build as trick a piece for that price. i bet you cant (unless you magically make time cost nothing, and even then...)
You could easily buy a v6 stang and build that same exact car for at least 100k less
125k is what the price should be if that
And any race motor can make 550hp. That really is not much of an accomplishment.
Sweet car but whoopdy doo
125k is what the price should be if that
And any race motor can make 550hp. That really is not much of an accomplishment.
Sweet car but whoopdy doo
chuckstang said:
Chuck:
Please!
You've never built a race car, how would you know?! :read: A N/A race motor that makes 550hp is not much of an accomplishment? :lol: There are no power adders on this car Chuck! :idea:
I think you need to do a little research!?
op:
You get right on that and let us know how it turns out.:lol:chuckstang said:
Riddlaontheroof said:
epper:
ac427cobra said:Chuck:
Please!
A N/A race motor that makes 550hp is not much of an accomplishment? :lol: There are no power adders on this car Chuck! :idea:
I think you need to do a little research!?
UMMmm race motors are meant to be driven at high rpms for long periods of time (that is why they call them race motors)
The engines in nascar are n/a and make more power and cost similar to this motor.
I stand by my statement that an all out n/a race motor that makes 550 flywheel hp is good but nothing to jump up and down over.
perhaps Fourcam could chime in...
The amount of power is sort of worthless because the race series it is designed for limits the power anyway.
for whatever its worth, they put restrictors on the motors in the boy racer mustangs because they had an unfair advantage.
It is an awsome car none the less. I would rather own this car than have sex with anna kournikova
epper:
oops I meant to quote eci as well
chuckstang said:UMMmm race motors are meant to be driven at high rpms for long periods of time (that is why they call them race motors)
The engines in nascar are n/a and make more power and cost similar to this motor.
I stand by my statement that an all out n/a race motor that makes 550 flywheel hp is good but nothing to jump up and down over.
perhaps Fourcam could chime in...
The amount of power is sort of worthless because the race series it is designed for limits the power anyway.
for whatever its worth, they put restrictors on the motors in the boy racer mustangs because they had an unfair advantage.
It is an awsome car none the less. I would rather own this car than have sex with anna kournikova
Chuck:
With every one of your posts, comes more "self ownage".
Nascar motors are built to run 500 miles and then they are junk. Complete and total rebuild is necessary.
If I were you I'd take the sex with Anna Kornikova. You need your cherry popped! ;-)
oke:It's looks like a great product from Ford, but $225,000??? Shit, you could almost buy 3 GT500's for that kind of money!!!:rollseyes
Well maybe if you win enough with the car, you will earn your money back
another consideration is displacement. now i havnt seen this article(let alone heard much about this car), but im assuming it has a 4.6, 5.0(more than likely), or a 5.4. nascar engines displace more than that. and like was previously mentioned, they are rebuilt after every single race.
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