wally05

All I have to say is... "EXACTLY!"

Eights

EXACTLY, exactly!

teamshinoda

I hope that all of these cars / companys are around in 10 years like we have I will be sending brad the complete line Shinoda Vehicles for 08

Benzito

Before they cut back the options in 07, someone calculated that Ford offered 16,000 different variations of the Mustang (figuring engine options, trim lines, color choices, wheels, interior options, etc.). That was straight from the dealer. So what's another 80 or 90 from the aftermarket?

Eights

teamshinoda: You are certainly correct that a few/some of these tuner manufacturers won't be "around in 10 years". But many--like Vortech--plan to build only a specific number of S197s (I believe Vortech plans to build only one hundred Vortech Edition S197s). Others will go out of business--like Unique Performance, who was building Foose Stallion S197s, G.T. 500 replicas from '67 and '68 Mustangs, and a few restomod Camaros. We all hope Shinoda will be there for as long as there are Mustangs, and doing better than ever!

BTW, I'd like reading serious roadtests of the latest 750 HP Shinoda S197 (serious roadtests--instrumented SS quartermile times/speeds, measured braking distances from many speeds, lap times at roadracing tracks, etc--not some "Wow, you can feel just how much better this baby performs than the stock Mustang GT" BS you'd find in "Modified Mustangs" or "Mustang Enthusiast"). Do you have a source for some serious 750 HP Shinoda S197 roadtesting??? Website blog or hardcopy magazine article--either one. With half again the power of a GT500, the test figures should be pretty outrageous!

Greg "Eights" Ates

~SMOKE~

Great list ... good documentation. Really does should how broad a net the Mustang aftermarket can cast. More flavors than Baskin & Robbins and something for everyone.
Thanks Eights.

Eights

~SMOKE~: Thanks, Smoke! I can't take much credit. There's a guy in another forum who calls himself "the Nethead here" that collected most of the tuner models I posted earlier--I just Copied/Pasted what he had posted there and added three more that I knew about. My point is that next Spring, Ford will build the nine millionth Mustang and I for one am certainly glad that all of them don't look the same! Tuner versions add variety that you won't get from the factory, and there can't be too many of them, IMO. If you collected together every tuner Mustang ever built from every tuner, I would guesstimate generously that that would still be fewer than 150,000 total tuner Mustangs--that's less than 2 percent of nine million. If the figure is a hardly believable 200,000 total tuner Mustangs, that's a little over 2.2 percent. In other words, around one Mustang in fifty is a tuner Mustang. You'll see forty-nine non-tuner Mustangs on the highways for every single tuner Mustang that you'll see.

How can that be too many???

My two cents (or two percent, perhaps ).

Greg "Eights" Ates

Eights

The Mustang News has an article on the new Saleen 25th anniversary S197: the Saleen S302-E Sterling Edition. It's costly ($100,000), badassed (a 620 HP supercharged 302 cubic inch three-valver), sporty (15" discs), beautiful (more tasteful bolt-on bodywork than regular Saleens), and rare (25 to be built).

Chuckster

Please update your list to include the Ronaele 500R, 2 were built as the prototype for all thier future builds.