Mr. Regular Calls Shelby GT500 an “Ode to Mythic American Muscle”
As Regular Car Reviews has grown to such great heights, it’s started to stray from the name a bit. Mr. Regular’s been driving some decent (or at least a stretch to call “regular”) cars lately, like a Cadillac XLR, a C5 Corvette, a ’66 Morris Mini Cooper, and now this stick of dynamite: a 2013 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500. That’s pretty much the exact opposite side of the spectrum of a “regular car.” And because of its stature, it makes for one of the most up-and-down reviews on his channel.
The whole video below kinda feels like Mr. Regular is one of those kids in high school who makes fun of the popular guy only to meet him and realize Mr. Popular’s actually a nice dude, so Mr. Regular tells other people that, but does it in the form of backhanded compliments. Even so, Mr. Regular talks about this first encounter with the GT500 by comparing it to being “that one dude in every Jason Bourne movie who can’t believe it’s Jason Bourne.” Because even Mr. Regular gets a bit star struck when he sees one of the most maniacal muscle cars ever built.
Reminder: the Trinity engine in this thing is a 5.8-liter, 32-valve, double-cam aluminum block V8. It has 662 horsepower and a top speed of more than 200 mph. That’s why the first, like, three minutes of the video are spent talking about how unnecessary it is and blah, blah, blah… who cares?! IT’S BOURNE-LEVEL AWESOME!
Though there’s plenty of love, Mr. Regular takes some serious shots for a guy who is wearing plaid cargo shorts. At one point he even calls the car “rental-car-y” when it’s in fifth or sixth gear and says that 3.31 gear ratio makes it feel “like it has 200 horsepower.” He goes so far as to say it needs different gearing and that they should swap an 8.8 rear end onto it. Which is fine, whatever. Then he switches gears (heh) and gets all slobbery over the first four by saying it accelerates as fast as an Ariel Atom. Which, if true, is an insane compliment. Personally, I haven’t driven either of those cars yet (call me whenever), so I can’t attest to whether these statements are true or false, but if anyone on the forums knows, please confirm or call him out.
Anyway, watch the video, get mad, ogle at the car’s ferocity, cry about its interior, and enjoy the show.
Sidenote: shoutout to this frame of the video. Not exactly sure why I love it, but I do. So I wanted to point it out. Here it is. Look at it.
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