These are all valid points and I agree with them, especially the heated seats lol. However, I'll still be buying a few extra option in hopes that when my daughter forces me to give up the keys, it will add to its value for her. I'm looking forward 25 years.

I will not be getting Nav because I think i will be viewed as a fancy 8-track in 25 years. I have an opinion on the glass roof that strikes it from the list as well. Customers want these options though, Ford wouldn't offer them just for fun.

 

I wasn't being belligerent about it, was being humorously/sarcastically truthful.
And it's not that I feel the glass roof ruins the performance car, and would have negligible difference on the performance, as stated.
But what the poster was asking was the "must have" options.
A glass roof is not a "must have" on a performance car.
It's not even a "must have" on a luxury car, unless of course you are the type who loves the sun, but not the wind of a convertible.
To me a "must have" on a performance car is the performance options.
But if you are using said performance car as also a daily driver, some premium options are also "must have's" for many including myself.

I'd also pass on the carbon fiber roof even if it was a weight saving options that IMPROVED performance. Reason being, is over time the sun with destroy it, and it would NOT be cheap to replace.
I'd rather them use aluminum in other areas to save the weight instead.
This way you get the weight saving, but not a sun destroying expensive option. And aluminum is cheaper than carbon fiber anyway.

 

When I was referring to spinning the car, I was not referring to the car's limits but the driver's.
Chances are the vast majority of people who buy a 2013 GT500 will NOT have 80% of the talent as a driver to use the car to it's limits.
And there will be a small amount of people who think they do have the talent to drive the car near it's limits, and will learn otherwise when they spin.

Again, my point, it will be a very small % of the owners who have the talent, will, and desire to drive the GT500 at a level that would require them to have the Track Pack. 98% of GT500 owners will not have the talent, will, or desire to push their $60K car to an extent that will cause heating issues for it on a car without the Track Pack.

So in short, unless you KNOW you are in that 2% of GT500 owners who not only have the talent, will and desire to drive your new GT500 on the track at 90%+ of the car's capabilities you probably do not need the Track Pack.
The only other time I would say yes get it, is if you also live in hottest states in the south and west and plan to push the car hard at the track during the summer months too. Then the Track Pack's extra cooling will be beneficial.
But again, I live and have lived in several of the hot states and I know I have very little desire to go out and push my car hard on a track or open roads when it's 100+ degrees outside.

 

People who buy the 500 don't worry about a few more thousand dollars. You think that matters?

 

Did you read the Original Post?

Sure they do? People who buy Bentley's, Ferrari's, Bugatti's don't worry about a few more thousand dollars.
GT500 is no exotic that only millionaires buy.
I could buy a GT500, I could buy several actually. But as a financially sensible person, I don't just throw away a few thousand dollars on something I don't want or feel I need either.