Some people just need to have the top of the line no matter what. Only after living with it do they realize that it might not be the best fit for them.
As I have said before when comparing cars MSRP to MSRP is still the best way to go. There are just way to many variables when talking about price YOU paid vs price OTHERS paid. I get what you are saying but just for the sake of comparing cars I think its easier to talk MSRP to MSRP.
according to the price list on M6G.
GT500 base price - 70,300
Destination 1,095
Gas Guzzler 2600
TOTAL 73995
https://www.mustang6g.com/forums/thr...ptions.124689/
That's the crazy part is it's not really that limited(R and CFTP are limited touch on that later). Someone posted the build counts, and yeah there were more ZL1s built than GT350s but it wasn't some insane difference, it wasn't like there was 10,000 ZL1s to 1K GT350s and even in the fifth gen it's not like there was a huge gap in production between GT500 and ZL1
A track focused car is something everyone says they want then when it comes out its hard to find homes for it. See 5th gen Z/28 They made 500 or so first year, and some fetched markup prices some at MSRP. Then made too many the second year and had to heavily discount them to move them. GM originally planned to limit the ZLE, and then decided not to. And what do you see now, they sit on lots and need discounts to move them. Point is building a track focused car and finding the right number to build is really tough. I think that is the reason Ford limits R and CFTP production is they are trying to find the sweet spot of cars made and not having to discount them.
But then the dealers get super greedy because its rare and people are stupid enough to pay it so we are back at square one and who the hell knows lol.
Now Martin you know more about the industry then I could in a 1000 lifetimes so you are probably correct but just want to throw this out there.
I could see Shelby back in the day being the answer to the Corvette. I mean they had nothing racing wise until the BOSS cars. But now in 2019 isn't Shelby just a name and a marketing ploy? Because now weren't the Shelby cars of back in the day sent to Shelby in Las Vegas vs now they are in house produced on same assembly line? I mean before SVT got rebranded into Ford Performance the GT500 had SVT logos all over it still and they just kind of used the Shelby name with the retro design in 2007. I don't think anyone would say the earlier SVT Mustangs were targeted at Corvette(maybe the 03/04 terminators or maybe that was just making up for the mess that was 01) I could see Ford wanting to target Corvette performance bc in theory that would make it best Camaro as well. Price wise (until recently) it still lined up with Camaro - is that just by chance?