RalphBullit

HOPE IT'S NOT A REPOST
http://cars.uk.msn.com/Reviews/artic...mentid=1077431

'Despite its crowd-pulling abilities and emotive whiff of nostalgia however, it?s obvious the Shelby GT500 can?t cut it here in the UK...'

all the Mustang owners from Europe I talked to(there are quite many of them,even in Poland where roads are terrible) were pleased with how their GTs handled.So the sentence I quoted is
My point is : better ask the customer what he thinks about the product,not the journalist.

best wishes

futuresvt

What does this article say about what the UK thinks of us...

"A car from the place where you have the right to bear firearms, and most of the population exercise that right with arsenals the size of a modest army."

WOW. And I don't even own a single weapon, other than steak knives and lighter fluid for my grill that is...

97svtgoin05gt

Yes another automotive journalist slamming Ford.

WHAT A SHOCK!

KGSGT350

I guess what it means is that, it doesn't matter if you car looks like crap or a pontiac, just as long as your car performs well with a lot of borrowed parts

Little Black Pony

Ok, there are two things to take into account for the article to realize it's something to ignore and will never be main stream press.

One, it's from MSN, anything from Microsquish is not entirely right in the head and most all credable sources will laught at it. Can you say "in house" articles.

Second, who's James Mills? I've never heard of him before. I couldn't even find any info on him in Google. I think he's a younger "chap" as he daftly compares the interior of the Shelby GT500 to a Sci-fi show from the 70's.

Vermillion06

To me that statement took away any credibility that the writer might have had. It shows the writer's predjudice right away, and told me right then what the outcome would be.

When a writer can't get their facts straight and right away spouts off a untrue stereotype, I can't put any faith in anything else in the article being accurate.

Uhh yeah, Ford should definitely design and tailor the GT500 for the tastes of "journalists" in one country where only 2 or 3 will be imported.
They should have made the GT500 in the image of a car that when imported to the US had trouble selling ...

Stangette

Journalist needs to research the comparable Performance Cars in their own Country prior to comparing Stats. The GT500 is comparable to their 70-80K car. IF they could have built better, they need to bring it.

In the words of the Cheif Engineer at SVT, ... "while they are out dreaming of something for it to compare to, Ours is on the street."

Consumer has already spoken of their desires and evidently, that does not match the opinion of the said Writer.

Hollywood_North GT

Yeah, I actually heard about a giant underground meeting - in COMMUNIST China, I believe it was - where most of the world's automotive journalists met, held a black mass, and took a blood oath to pick on Ford - and all domestic brands - until the end of eternity. (I think they even sacrificed a couple of 'screaming chickens'.)



That said, I couldn't find anything on this guy, either, and it says he's a "contributor," which pretty much says it all.

However, cultural attacks aside, remember that most LEGITIMATE automotive journalists spend FAR more time in a greater range of vehicles than probably anyone on this board, so they're in a pretty good position to compare and contrast automobiles.