sykikchimp

From a clip on the NY auto show:

Ford Mustang GT-R -- As Ford readies its first truly all-new 'Stang in 27 years, the GT-R concept shows them already plotting the modern Mustang's return to serious road racing. The GT-R starts with 85 percent of the 2005 Mustang's parts – but it's the other 15 percent that could give grassroots racers a potent, relatively affordable ride in a variety of series including American LeMans and SCCA Trans-Am. Inspired by the Grabber Orange 1970 Boss 302 race cars driven by Parnelli Jones and others, the GT-R features a 440-horsepower "Cammer" V-8 engine that can easily be tuned to deliver 500-plus. The brawny concept features huge fender flares, a soaring rear spoiler, stainless steel side exhausts, and a dose of lightweight carbon fiber inside and out.. ..

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DRFT

that thing is ugly, but its powa!
kinda rice too haha

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sykikchimp

check the interior:

Full roll cage:

and from the back:

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FastBack 240

Get rid of the wing and id sport it.

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old_s13

thing looks fucking weird...

damn concept cars.. they always LOOK like they'll never be real. make something that looks fucking real.. i dont wanna look at a video game, i want to look at a CAR.

Ghettokracker71

Now all those people sporting skyline GT-R badges on their stang GT's will actually be able to justify it now,fuckin great!

Other than the name and the wing,I love it.

AKADriver

old_s13, it looks pretty real to me... it pretty much just looks like an '05 'stang with a cf hood, splitter, wing, and a roll cage. The only non-real thing about it is that race cars never look that clean, haha.

What's wrong with the wing? This is supposed to be a race car. Race cars have wings.

DRFT

love the way you think man

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ICKY

LoL, man that thing looks... weird or something. It just doesnt look like much of a traditional mustang, looks like they mixed the muscle stang, the 5.0 stang, and they 90's body style stang and came up with THAT. Hideous!! LOOK AT THAT FRONT END! ITS HUGE!!! I'd take a 97 SVT Cobra over that thing. Would look much MUCH better pimped out. I'd give the FORD GTR a

Salty_X

LMFAO


The interior looks cool, as does the motor and suspension, but the exterior (fender vents, covered quarter windows, big wing) looks whack to me.
Definitely better than the Dodge Neon GT-R I saw the other day though.

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matlock

I agree about most concept cars looking all futuristic, and its funny because most of them never turn out like the concepts at all, I understand its supposed to look all spiffy and stuff but its just annoying when you see a car at an autoshow and then you see it in production and its all cheesy and mass produced.

The wing is there for true aerodynamic use, its not a 100 HP Honda Civic, its a 440HP "Muscle" Car. I defineatly like that full roll cage, I doubt that will be a factory option.

MakotoS13

ricers still aren't justified cause this car will AT LEAST cost 50K to get. the motor alone is 15grand.

I'd give the FORD GTR a

don't go around sayin the new vette sucks. i'd hate for BOTH companies to go bankrupt on account of your non-professional opinion.

it's a race car. ricers are wannabee race cars with non functional wings. once again:

it's a race car and it's beautiful.

Ghettokracker71

That wasn't meant to be a racist comment I promise you(Just look up my old posts,you will see how many times I bitch people out for that kinda stuff). I changed it and sorry for anybody that may have gotten offended.

DuffMan

Meh, its not rotary powered with forged pistons like the REAL mustang GT-R. Just a ricer knockoff.

ONYX S-13

Nasty..Hopefully the final product doesn't look like that

Ghettokracker71

rotary powered with forged pistons? another GT-R mustang? WTF are you talking about ?

oojpeeoo

props to the mustang but shit.... de-rice that thing..looks more like a japanese car than an all american badass muscle

ICKY

That thing doesnt even resemble a race car, except for the interior, which, if it looks like that, i doubt it will sell much. Also, i love corvettes, i havnt seen the new one but the 04 vettes look pretty much the same to the older ones, almost the same even with the 80's style vette. The GT-R stang should atleast have more resemblence to its older models.

nokeone

pure sex....

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deedeedum

so it comes with the an unpainted carbon fiber hood?

got rice?

old_s13

hahahahhahahahahahahah

yeah man, i hear that car runs 11s or something. ah man that video clip was comedy...

- mike

nismo2491

couple reasons I say this will never come to be, (BTW I work for ford).
1) the tailights, they are the last iteration of the concept for the new GT Mustang. the new GT mustang ones are a little different
2) the covered quarter glass - also off the last concept version
3) front end, nowhere near final release version
4) no airbags - can't release a car without at least dual front airbags now, not factory cars anyways
5) Remember the cobra r? lets hope that this is the next one and I'm completely wront on 1-4
KEvin

HyperTek

I think its kinda cool, but they gotta turn it down a little on "racer boy" looks. concerning the cf hood being ricey, back in the day didnt muscle cars have flat black hoods??

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Phlip

Yeah, it's missing the Kanji symbols, and I bet it can't even run 12's man, I want an old-school GT-R Stang

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Bliss

i doubt that will go into production, and even if it does, there's no way in hell it'll look like that. Like said before, almost all concept cars look way more futuristic than they end up looking like in production. Not only that, but I seriously doubt it'll be as hardcore as the concept, as often times concepts have more power and nicer suspensions and other shit than they have when they are put into production.

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keepitmovin

Kill the wing

theronin

gg ford

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sykikchimp

I was thinking the same thing ronin.. you build a car for "serious road racing," but continue to use the solid rear axle? WTF MATE?!?!?

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nismo2491

ford continues to use a solid rear axle because they can't yet get a independent rear suspension that hold power. thats one of the first mods for the 03 and 04 cobra guys is to swap to a solid axle because they keep breaking shit.
KEvin

Ghettokracker71

Some Mopar muscle cars did have that as an option.