Killed a Ford GT - on my test drive!

1fastsedan · 08-01-2006, 12:11 AM

I bought my SRT8 yesterday. I shopped several dealers and one of them let me test drive it (they and I thought we were at the same place for price, trade etc. - turns out we weren't and I walked away later) While we're out on a local highway a Ford GT guns it while passing me on the right, and I wasn't even in the left lane. I put the pedal to the floor in an SRT8 with 4 miles on it - blew past him at about a 100 mph. The dealership guy just about had a kitten in the back seat! It felt SOOOOOO good though.

330toSRT8 · 08-01-2006, 12:20 AM

It was a Ford MUSTANG GT, right? If it was a non-Mustang Ford GT he obviously wasn't pressing the gas pedal.

Z-Man · 08-01-2006, 12:34 AM

it had to be a mustang gt...........cuz that ford gt is NUTS.....the ferrari killer......not to take anything away from the srt8.

cbutler32 · 08-01-2006, 12:57 AM

the "stormtrooper" arrives...

WELCOME!!!
and CONGRATS!!!

glad you enjoyed the ride to Crystal Cove on Sat.

and glad you joined the "club"...
now go get 300+ miles so you can make some runs at WOT...

Dennis808 · 08-01-2006, 04:20 AM

You were racing which?

or

Ford GT's are supercharged V8's that come 550 stock. He probably wasn't in race mode.

marnepup · 08-01-2006, 07:10 AM

Gee...how many GTs are there in SoCal? A dozen? And how many Moosetangs? A million or two? Yeah, it hadda be the cheaper car...which makes this kill unfortunately mundane...like "my camaro killed a sebring" mundane.

Dan SS2471 · 08-01-2006, 07:11 AM

Congrats and welcome.

Stories of making kills during test drives makes me feel better about having taken delivery of my car directly from the transport truck with no miles on it.

marnepup · 08-01-2006, 07:26 AM

Good call, Dan! I had ordered mine a year in advance (while still in Iraq...all the nightmares of waiting months for an ASAP delivery didn't affect me), but when it hit ground at the dealership, I had my fiancee's BFF go take a pic of the ODO and tail the dealer during that silly "quality control ride" or whatever they call their excuse to put a mile or three on the car before you take delivery. He behaved himself, and the mileage was right when I took delivery, but not every dealer is that way. In defense of dealers everywhere, though, Aharner's run versus the rustang appears to have been neither authorized nor anticipated by the salesman...but illustrates beautifully why most dealers won't let you test drive anything over about 12 HP.

I firmly believe in (and regularly apply) "drive it like you stole it"...but only after you own it.

JWunderli · 08-01-2006, 07:53 AM

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Originally Posted by marnepup

Good call, Dan! I had ordered mine a year in advance (while still in Iraq...all the nightmares of waiting months for an ASAP delivery didn't affect me), but when it hit ground at the dealership, I had my fiancee's BFF go take a pic of the ODO and tail the dealer during that silly "quality control ride" or whatever they call their excuse to put a mile or three on the car before you take delivery. He behaved himself, and the mileage was right when I took delivery, but not every dealer is that way. In defense of dealers everywhere, though, Aharner's run versus the rustang appears to have been neither authorized nor anticipated by the salesman...but illustrates beautifully why most dealers won't let you test drive anything over about 12 HP.

I firmly believe in (and regularly apply) "drive it like you stole it"...but only after you own it.

Excellent point. Until you own it, the mantra should be: "Drive it like you borrowed it."

1fastsedan · 08-01-2006, 08:29 AM

Come on guys, I know what a Mustang looks like. It was NOT the mustang, it was the GT (bottom picture above). I don't know if the guy really didn't want to play or wasn't willing to break a hundred on the freeway with others around, but yes it was the very expensive, very powerful, very low actual GT. I'm not sure how many are around I see 2 in San Diego faily regularly and there were 4 or 5 at Crystal Cove last Saturday.

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