DGS49
Diamond Member
Several car magazines have published articles this month about the new Mustang Super Snake, a 750hp aftermarket add-on to a Ford Mustang GT, that makes it - for the purposes of this discussion - the greatest and fastest Mustang ever produced. The price is basically $50 grand, plus your "donor" Mustang GT, which we will assume costs you about $40 grand. There are different packages you can get on both the base car and the SS (oops, I guess I shouldn't use that as my abbreviation, since it has some association with a competitor's product), but basically that's it: $90 thousand to own the Best Mustang Ever.
Now, when I'm looking at a major automotive purchase I first look at the cost/value relationship for the vehicle in question, as I see it, then I look at what else I could get with the price of the vehicle I'm considering.
For Ninety Large I could get a ZO6 Corvette, or a Porsche 911 convertible, or a Viper SRT, or there is undoubtedly one of the Mercedes two-seat SL's that could be had for that number. Or the Jag sports car, either coupe or rag-top. I haven't seen the pricing for the new 2016 Acura NSX, but maybe that car as well.
Not to be melodramatic, but I could see a future (say, ten years out) in which any one of these latter cars could be passed on to my favorite male heir as a significant piece of my estate, and he would be thrilled to get it.
But a MUSTANG? Nice car indeed, but ten years out it's just a used Ford. Probably rusty.
"Ford People" - the ones who buy Mustangs and keep the F150 at the top of the sales charts every year - seem to lose their minds when considering some of their products. No sane person would shell out that amount money for a Mustang, even if it is the...
Best. Mustang. Ever.
at least that's what I think.
Now, when I'm looking at a major automotive purchase I first look at the cost/value relationship for the vehicle in question, as I see it, then I look at what else I could get with the price of the vehicle I'm considering.
For Ninety Large I could get a ZO6 Corvette, or a Porsche 911 convertible, or a Viper SRT, or there is undoubtedly one of the Mercedes two-seat SL's that could be had for that number. Or the Jag sports car, either coupe or rag-top. I haven't seen the pricing for the new 2016 Acura NSX, but maybe that car as well.
Not to be melodramatic, but I could see a future (say, ten years out) in which any one of these latter cars could be passed on to my favorite male heir as a significant piece of my estate, and he would be thrilled to get it.
But a MUSTANG? Nice car indeed, but ten years out it's just a used Ford. Probably rusty.
"Ford People" - the ones who buy Mustangs and keep the F150 at the top of the sales charts every year - seem to lose their minds when considering some of their products. No sane person would shell out that amount money for a Mustang, even if it is the...
Best. Mustang. Ever.
at least that's what I think.