Photo: Craigslist
Muscle car wars may be stronger than ever, but there's one common enemy that threatens fans of any camp and that has to do with dealers and private sellers willing to make big bucks by (re)selling new machines way above their MRSP.
Remember when the Hellcat first hit the market? The intoxicating melange between rarity and exploding demand saw many 707-pony Mopar machines being acquired for amounts of money that not only were an insult to the relative affordability of the Hellcat badge but defeated the purpose of muscle car pricing altogether.
Well, 2016 is the year of the Shelby Mustang, with GT350 and the Gt350R hitting the streets in more significant numbers than the microscopic ones we got last year. Alas, speculation hasn't failed to show up and today we've got two irritating examples of that.
We'll start with a Mustang Shelby GT350 that ended up on Craigslist for the fist-clenching price of $130,000. The seller, a Chicago man, enjoyed the athletic pony for 120 miles and has now decided to pull a trick on whoever is ready to take the bait.
Moving on, we're bringing you a Shelby GT350R that Motorcars of Georgia listed for an infuriating $130,000. Just like the Craigslist episode above, the ad made it to Reddit, sparking a bit of an outrage, and for good reason. For instance, the odo shows 92 miles and this was mentioned as a delivery-related procedure. Yeah, right...
The dealer claims to have sold the car meanwhile, with the ad having been removed. And it's not exactly difficult to believe that, when a simple search reveals other similarly-priced GT350Rs.
As the Georgia dealer reportedly explained, their track-savvy 'Stang went overseas, and when such customers are ready to shake the market with their offers, it even becomes difficult to point your finger at the seller, private or not.
It's things like these that have determined Ford to come up with a comprehensive customer selection program for the 2017 GT. The scheme follows that used by Ferrari, and while we've seen errors infiltrating Maranello's scheme, at least the overall easy money limitation effect is visible.
But what can you do if you're in the market for a Shelby, not a $400,000 supercar? The answer is not that complicated: browse the web and, especially in the case of the GT35o, you'll find multiple cars being offered for their MSRPs. They probably won't be in your area, but collecting such a car can turn into a memorable roadtrip.
Well, 2016 is the year of the Shelby Mustang, with GT350 and the Gt350R hitting the streets in more significant numbers than the microscopic ones we got last year. Alas, speculation hasn't failed to show up and today we've got two irritating examples of that.
We'll start with a Mustang Shelby GT350 that ended up on Craigslist for the fist-clenching price of $130,000. The seller, a Chicago man, enjoyed the athletic pony for 120 miles and has now decided to pull a trick on whoever is ready to take the bait.
Moving on, we're bringing you a Shelby GT350R that Motorcars of Georgia listed for an infuriating $130,000. Just like the Craigslist episode above, the ad made it to Reddit, sparking a bit of an outrage, and for good reason. For instance, the odo shows 92 miles and this was mentioned as a delivery-related procedure. Yeah, right...
The dealer claims to have sold the car meanwhile, with the ad having been removed. And it's not exactly difficult to believe that, when a simple search reveals other similarly-priced GT350Rs.
As the Georgia dealer reportedly explained, their track-savvy 'Stang went overseas, and when such customers are ready to shake the market with their offers, it even becomes difficult to point your finger at the seller, private or not.
It's things like these that have determined Ford to come up with a comprehensive customer selection program for the 2017 GT. The scheme follows that used by Ferrari, and while we've seen errors infiltrating Maranello's scheme, at least the overall easy money limitation effect is visible.
But what can you do if you're in the market for a Shelby, not a $400,000 supercar? The answer is not that complicated: browse the web and, especially in the case of the GT35o, you'll find multiple cars being offered for their MSRPs. They probably won't be in your area, but collecting such a car can turn into a memorable roadtrip.
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