Shelby Cobra 427 S/C specs

Yeah right as if lol The Nevera does 30-60mph in 1.2 sec so we know that those figures are IMPOSSIBLE! The amount of bullshit with old performance figures has become more and more apparent...

But the Cobra does 0-30 in 3.2...

Motortrend tested the Shelby Cobra SC(Semi-Competition) and it got 0-30 mph in 1.9sec and 0-60 mph in 4.6 sec which is far more realistic. Apparently the Competition version with 485bhp had similar acceleration as the 410bhp version to 60mph?

Guaranteed I only posted the 30-100mph results for fun. No other acceleration times than 60 and 100 were ever republished by Car & Driver.

There were plenty of writing mistakes in old magazine tests. Not in modern ones, where peer-reviewing is an absolute must. Nowadays you can't ever have someone like Bob Weigert (is that how you spell his name?) lie about the performance of his "stock" GTO Wildcat or Catalina 2+2. That's fraud.

Also that 410hp and that 425hp and that 485hp... those were all marketing gimmicks. The S/C performed in the same way as the original did. American automakers were mostly complicated in horsepower ratings for the same big-block engines from the 1950s until like 2004/05.

2005 was an important year for American cars; it brought us the radicalized Corvette and the half-radical-half-retro Mustang.

There wasn't any difference between a manual C5 Z51 and a C5 Z06 in real-world straight-line performance. Camaro and Firebird LS1s were exactly the same in performance, regardless of whether advertised at 320 or 330 or 335 or 345 or even 350hp. All made actual 380-390hp, and weren't far off from the 03-04 Terminators, which made 430 real hp.

The LT1 Camaros and Firebirds were marketed as GT Mustang rivals (technically), but were actually on par with Cobras. Ford was liberal with non-supercharged V8 power (but conservative on Terminators/Lightnings, moderate on V6s), Chevy was conservative on V8s (but moderate on V6s).

"Horsepower sells" - Carroll Shelby

That's all it is. Mostly a marketing gimmick. It's really only important once you're the target audience for an M/AMG/Porsche/Ferrari/Lamborghini car, or similar.

Back to the topic, C/D was bright enough not to repeat the 0-30 time ever again. But that 0-30 was 2.3 seconds, not 3.2. That's reasonable. The acceleration times weren't performed with rollout, but the quartermile time was.

2.0 to 30, 4.0 to 60, 8.5 to 100->>> ¼mile in 12.2@118

2.3 to 30, 4.3 to 60, 8.8 to 100->>> ¼mile in 12.5@118

For comparison, R&T's 2005 Ford GT prototype did 1.8 to 30, 3.8 to 60, and 8.8 to 100 with rollout = 2.1 to 30, 4.1 to 60, and 9.1 to 100.

Ford GT results:

1.8 to 30, 3.8 to 60, 8.8 to 100->>> ¼mile in 12.2@121.6

2.1 to 30, 4.1 to 60, 9.1 to 100->>> ¼mile in 12.5@121.6

This is one of the slowest GTs tested, and the type of GT that Forza Motorsport and Horizon games have, as opposed to the badder "stock" GTs running 11.2-11.6@126-131.