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New York Auto Show Preview: It's Good To Be The King...Of The Road

No folks, it's not 1968, but Carroll Shelby's anointing a new King of The Road at the New York Auto Show, and we've got the video above to prove it — thanks to a little bird named Alan. If you'll remember, the original royal Shelby Cobra GT500-KR was a hot piece of twat, with a suspiciously low horsepower rating of 335. Of course, it was said that dynoing uncovered an extra 100 ponies grazing within FoMoCo's 428 ci Police Interceptor V8. And that was a vehicle with a base price of $4,473. Unfortunately our little bird hasn't given us any specs on what Shelby plans on revealing next week, so we'll have to see whether it'll be a hurried-up Corvette SS-beater or whether it's actually worthy of the crown. – Ray Wert

6:26 PM on Thu Mar 29 2007
By Ray Wert
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Mastodon at 05:49 PM on 03/29/07
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i'm physically excited
Jonny Lieberman at 05:56 PM on 03/29/07
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Dear Imaginary Sky God,

please make the only difference between the regular GT500 and the KR be MORE POWER!!! Handling and stopping is Kraftwerk fans and pedophiles.

Thank you
Davey G. at 06:00 PM on 03/29/07
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Trailers for sale or rent...
clashtastic at 06:05 PM on 03/29/07
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but imagine....what if the KR edition had the aluminum block engine from the Ford GT, and IRS since the platform was designed w/ IRS in mind, and then they fettled with that engine some more and got us like 600 horsepowers and 600 torques, and then damn that would be sweet, and then....they decided to just give me one
ThnderbltDoherty at 06:09 PM on 03/29/07
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Please please please have an independent rear suspension.
Jonny Lieberman at 06:13 PM on 03/29/07
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@clashtastic:

Screw that -- 2,300 hp from seven blowers and an afterburner w/ stock brakes

Thank you.
clashtastic at 06:59 PM on 03/29/07
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@jonny

you win, that is truly the pursuit of awesome, and peeing your pants

unless....
what you said, plus what i said, plus 2Pratt & Whitney J58-P4 engines (they were on the blackbird, and the a-12,) and brakes from a747, hells yeah, or we can stick w/ stock brakes, if we're hoons

but maybe the king of the road edition is a ranchero....

ooh the pursuit of hoonage, and therefore the pursuit of awesome
SwatLax at 07:17 PM on 03/29/07
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Don't ask me what I was doing watching G4, but they just profiled Jalopnik on "Attack of the Show." Very weird.

I swear on my Legend's Haynes manual that I don't live in my parents basement.
SwatLax at 07:48 PM on 03/29/07
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Oh, about the car: have London bookies started taking bets on cars being crashed for PR purposes? There must be other people like Jonny who would buy a car based upon a proven capacity for super-dangerous hoonage potential.
Jonny Lieberman at 08:01 PM on 03/29/07
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No, no -- I just think that big Mustangs should do what they do best -- go really straight, really frigging fast.

Stopping and turning is so unnecessarily post-modern, you know?

Unlike Enzo powered 80s Action stars, who are by necessity three-flavors of po-mo.
scotte at 08:39 PM on 03/29/07
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...rooms to let fifty cents....
SwatLax at 08:47 PM on 03/29/07
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Makes me wish Eddie Griffin was postmodernist.
KingRoyale at 09:36 PM on 03/29/07
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Slap on functional quarter window and rear brake scoops, give it HIDs, up the power with a SCd Cammer, put the standard V6 grille / headlight area and make the spoiler more of a ducktail...and then a price tag only $7k more than the standard GT500.

Oh my soul just splooged again....mmmmmmm
smokyburnout at 11:08 PM on 03/29/07
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@jonnylieberman:
mustang, straight, fast, supercharged? -got it.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=dvxinO3jjts
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZuaWhEL8hwA
RIP Eric...
HDC at 12:05 AM on 03/30/07
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Damnit Jonnny, if I wasn't already married....

I have an idea. In light of the fact that all sheet metal design has been downhill since the muscle car days, let's screw this whole retro movement and do it right. Just build Camaros and Mustangs with the exact late 60's sheet metal but today's power, safety, engineering, and build intelligence. Good god, can you imagine the fabulousness?
KingRoyale at 12:10 AM on 03/30/07
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@HDC:
Something that my brother and I have discussed for years (along with probably so many more people for even longer) -- the tooling of those and other such popular cars are likely held by the big three for at least another 50 years, if not till the sands of time melt away into nothingness. OR theyll ask for the soul of each person who buys one of the new-oldies as collateral.

Damn you temptation!
Collin at 02:26 AM on 03/30/07
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Hrmm, a few statements. When Ford decided to scrap IRS on the Mustang, they significantly changed the design of the platform, making it very difficult and expensive to put IRS back in.

And frankly, I like the retro movement. It takes yesterdays designs and pushes the wheels to the corners and does things that couldn't be done back then. Frankly the new Challenger is going to be just perfect with that, and the Mustang is damn close.
topdown at 10:36 AM on 03/30/07
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Ah that Shelby...did you see him on stage at Barrett-Jackson, interviewed whilst they auctioned off his Cobra, with the huge flask tucked under his sweater? It was no wonder he could hardly speak in whole sentences....