2007 Ford Shelby GT500 | Retro Review
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Show 2601 | Original Airdate 08-31-2006
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2007 is retro now. I’m getting old
Right. Makes no gaddamn sense at all
FACTS
Exactly, @@harrishustle. All these great '80's & '90's (which is what Retro Review SHOULD mean!) reviews they haven't uploaded yet, & they seem to be stuck on the mid-to-late 2000's lately.
I remember when those cars were new. Like it was yesterday!
At this point mototweek will upload the 2007 Mercedes S-Class and Honda CR-V for retro review
People nowadays have become jaded with huge HP figures, but back in the day, this thing was absolutely outrageous.
Not really. These were no quicker than C6 Vettes. They always underperformed despite having 500 hp
Read any review of one from back in the day, these were very meh
@@ericfitzgerald9139 I would rather have the Z06. I went for a brand new STI in 2006, and i don't regret my choice. It was a blast. That whole era was great.
@@ericfitzgerald9139it's because as usual Ford never builds a chassis that can handle the power of the engine they put in it.
ONE THING I CAN'T UNDERSTAND IS MY 08 GT500 IN STOCK FORM IS REFERRED TO AS A DOG LOL WITH 500HP AND IT RAN THE QUATER MILE IN STOCK FORM AT MID 12S AT 115MPH LOL I REALLY DON'T THINK IT IS A DOG RUNNING NUMBERS LIKE THAT.
@@anthonylaudano9435it was bro, but for 20k i’d buy one again for fun
I like this body style alot better than the new Mustang.
I like it for its time and retrospective. I like the new one for its time and forward projection.
Old coke is better than new coke because it’s old and so am I
Beauty is subjective. I also prefer the S197. They’re a more raw car compared to later models. Kinda like a foxbody compared to the SN95 SVT cars with IRS.
Absolutely agreed
It's the round headlights...
The best thing about the old 5.4 supercharged vehicles was that whine. 🥰🥰
And it’s cast iron block!!💜💜💜💜💜
Whine is still alive and well in the new GT 500!
Ah the high pitched screech of a good blower. Prefer it over the loud sighing turbos
@@germanengineering204The bare bones feeling isn’t. I own both. Two very different cars.
I love this generation so much. Remember the day when it came out and I bought a scale model. Wow 2007 is retro!
I remember in 2009, in the middle of the great recession they had these going for 39K at local dealers. I ended up getting a 2010 Camaro SS but I really regret not having jumped on that deal. These GT500's are now true classics, and will become ever more collectible as the years pass.
I paid close ish to that for mine used over a decade later lol
Damn. The transrobot certainly got you hyped back then.
@@voodoodiecast Not entirely, I really loved the look of the Camaro and for the money the performance was really good. Obviously the heritage , performance potential, and looks still favored the GT500. My mistake was not realizing how much of a value the GT500 was. I bought into the resurrection hype .
@@aycemanm8151 fair point. Michael Bay transrobots catapulted the camaro to new popularity then it died off. Never lost interest of the ‘07 GT500. ‘13 is my favorite but this one right here is something special.
@@voodoodiecast yes the 13 is gold I was going to get a 2010 GT500 dealer tried to pull a fast one so ended up backing out. I agree with the Transformer movie being largely responsible for the Camaro hype .
GT500 was always one of the best performance cars in each era of performance cars
GT500 is best perfomance every times
@@fernandorocha8459 i just don't like two cars....my only dislike😅
Jesus 2007 seems not that long ago!😮 freaking times fly fast! 💨
These days the regular 5.0L Coyote produces 500HP and 418lb-ft, while the naturally-aspirated 5.4L V8 in the Mustang GT3 produces over 600HP and 480lb-ft of torque, and both get better fuel economy than the supercharged 5.4L in this GT500. Anyone who thinks combustion engines have "stagnated" or "can't be improved" hasn't been keeping track of how far things have come since even the 2000s.
Yes, technology keeps advancing. Especially 16 years later...
The “regular” 5L Coyote doesn’t make 500. To get that number, one has to track-down and overpay for one of the scarce “Dark Horse” units.
Even so, the 5.4 blower motor had a LOT more beef under the curve, and average power across its usable rev-range. Peak HP figure doesn’t tell the whole story.
This car came out over 15 years ago obviously engines have improved. But these engines can make way more power than the 500 they make from the factory
2:29 John: THE GT500 IS NO GAS SIPPER! LOL
When I saw WIll Smith drive that red one I started dreaming of actually owning one of those. I got a '14 model off the showroom in late '13 and have loved it ever since!
I remember when this car came out thinking wow, 500hp and 4.5 seconds 0-60, amazing. It still is amazing. But people today would consider this car slow.
It always had kind of disappointing performance for the horsepower it made. The terminator cobras had a worse power to weight ratio, but were just as fast.
Until your door is blown off n you’re looking at tail lights!! This car had a great platform for Mods!! Lots of Hellcats have found this out the hard way!!⚡️☝🏿
I don't know many people that would call 4.5 stock slow, even today.
@@exxusdrugstore300 I guess you haven't seen people commenting about "slow" 0-60 times for cars like the TLX Type S, IS500, and related cars. All around 4.5 seconds. Today many people want something that does 3 seconds or faster. Today we have 6,000-7,000 pound behemaths doing 0-60 in under 6 seconds.
@@exxusdrugstore300 exactly,, but there are people who don’t know that ☝🏿
My dad worked for Ford we took one of these on the highway and got it to like 130mph back in 2007
yeah ok 👌
Could’ve went a lot faster
A lot of casual european cars were capable of doing 130 mph back in the day, even a Golf 2.0 with only 150 horsepower could reach that. But I'm not saying the Mustang is bad, I really love the car.
It's a lot of fun going that fast.
I got my '08 GT up to 120mph on the DC belt way once coming home during the pandemic at 2am. There was absolutely no one but me on that 5 lane wide stretch, so I just laid into it.
Its cuz your dad let you drive it.
Even for a car made in the 2007, it looks like a very old school muscle car! And that's around the year I was born! It still looks very good for a Ford Mustang built in 2007!
That's because in 2005 Ford decided to model their cars after the old school muscle cars. Because the 05-09 Mustang sold so well it's the reason Chevy started producing the Camaro again in 2010, and Dodge the Challenger in 2008. We owe a lot to the 05-09 Mustang
I own 07 convertible for 15 years and still loved like day one. It’s a kipper for next generation.
What's a "Kipper?"
How a Mustang should look.
This will always be my favorite modern Shelby.
One of the sexiest GT 500s ever
My dad used to have a 2009 GT500 convertible. It was such a beautiful car, I wish he never sold it.
I have a 06 V6 pony 5 speed. 52,000 miles and is my baby. Very FUN to DRIVE. ❤
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That’s some serious numbers back in the day 😮
Absolutely was I believe it was the first to reach it as a stock car
Thank you MotorWeek! ❤🐍
We need Motorweek to return to this format. Just about every car review seems exciting and fun.
these were always one of few top favorite among the Mustangs,
I don't care much for if the later ones were faster or not, or better handling or not, if they have better interiors or not, or any of that sort.
This specific model gave, and still gives, me a specific feeling that i don't get with any other Mustangs.
05-09 best looking to me.
You are the type of person who absolutely gets why this car was built and why it became an icon and was loved and respected for so long until like 2020 Era when modern morons focused on speed and nothing else
Speed kills
with the cheap looking, buick rear end? @@brandonrickbornponyexpress6574
LMAO all that this car focused on WAS speed..This car couldn't turn worth a damn. The new mustangs are geared towards speed and handling and so is the camaro. now mopar is a different story.@@blackeye3336
I had Vipers back in 2007!
GTS and a RT/10.
I liked the new Shelby .
It was 500hp and $50,000 with the dealer markups.
PURE BEAUTY BAD ASS Love this Gen. wow DREAM CAR !!!!
I had one of these but a 2009 KR edition and it was an absolute animal.
The stock Eagle F1 tires were garbage and wouldnt allow these things to hook up worth crap. Tire upgrades made such a big difference! Even though the rears never lasted more than 4000kms haha. Such a great car and i hope to own another one some day as their values begin to drop.
U should consider slicks
@@juancorona7935 lol if i was tracking it maybe. Slicks + street = death lol
I don't think it's dropping anytime soon. Get another one while they are still attainable.
MAN I SO AGREE WITH YOU I HAVE 2 SUPER SNAKES A COUPE AND MY CONVERTIBLE AND SHELBY AMERICAN PUT PERELLI P ZEROS ON BOTH CARS AND THERE ONLY 275S ON THE REAR AND HONESTLY IT WAS VERY HARD TO GET TRACTION LOL MY CONVERTIBLE SUPER SNAKE IS ROUGHLY 650HP AND MY KENNY BELL 2.8 BLOWER IS ALMOST 800HP AT THE TIRE AND IT ALSO WAS VERY HARD TO GET TRACTION BUT AFTER CHANGING THE REAR TIRES ON BOTH CARS AND PUTTING A REAL STICKY TIRES ON BOTH LOL WHAT A DIFFERENCE LOL WILL THEY STILL SMOKE THE TIRES LOL YES IF YOU WANT TO BUT IF YOU KINDA MANAGE THE POWER SLOWLY WITH YOUR RIGHT FOOT LOL YOU WILL SEE A HUGE DIFFERENCE.
They won't ever drop in price
A "new" retro car from 2007 that is now also retro.
WILD!
$43k ......amazing we now paying $55k for vehicles without leather & nav .....auto market is so messed up lately its insane
You do know that inflation exist right? It’s about 63 grand in todays money
@@theoddfurry141yes but good luck getting the new gt500 for 63k, most I see go for 90-100k
At the time you could not get one of those for that price! They were marked up $30-50K by dealers.
@@theoddfurry141 Not sure what inflation calculator you're using but they all seem to grossly underestimate the actual inflation rate. Here's a better way to calculate it. Average new car price in 2007 = around $24,000. Average new car price today = around $48,000. That's a ratio of 2:1. So all you need to do is double the price of any new car in 2007 to know what it would cost in today's money. So for this Shelby GT500, the coupe would be $84,000 in today's money. A 2022 GT500's original MSRP was $81,000 (excluding markups) - so the math checks out. A 2007 Dodge Charger SRT8 cost $38,000 (or $76,000 in today's money). Right in line with what a 2023 Charger SRT Hellcat costs.
Car price inflation is pretty consistent (if you exclude dealer markups). Salaries have not kept pace with inflation which is why it "seems" like the auto market is out of control. Think of it this way: even if on paper your current salary is double what it was in 2007, your actual "purchasing power" is no better off than it was back then. I would say the "labor market" is so messed up that pay can't keep up with inflation. Car prices are very much in line with reality.
Crazy that I’m the owner of an 07 gt500
Same.
650 hp rear wheel easy then do suspension, coilovers, sway bars, panhard bar, torque arm, brake kit, tires and your set.
Such a great generation
There's a huge debate amongst my friends and I back in the day whether this was a step forward over the 04 cobra Cruise IRS admittedly was bolted in and not very rigid and some of my friends think this was an improvement because the s197 chassis was more rigid but a couple of my friends and myself included thought it's about 250 to 300 lbs too heavy which seemed to eat up the extra power not to mention the weight distribution kind of sucked
I've come to the conclusion that this beats the 04 Cobra not so much in all out performance but it was more find it was less about rattletrap
Crazy how the new Dark Horse is making basically the same performance as the old GT500, but its not even considered the "High Performance" version of the Mustang.
in my mind 2007 is still new. I remember watching this on TV when the car was new
I regret not buying one of these 7 years ago for 25k
I got mine 3 years ago for $27K and it had 24K miles
Caraca esse canal é um arraso sensacional que carro lindo esse conbina comigo 😁👍
Sooner or later we’re gonna start seeing 2012+ cars on Retro Review.💀
500hp and a five ft antenna on front 🤔. I can’t stop seeing it on this otherwise gorgeous modern take on a retro design.
Best looking mustang ever
MAN I SO AGREE THAT IS WHY I HAVE 2 07 SHELBYS AND MY 08 GT500 AND MY 07 SHELBY GT.
In the modern era hell yea
hell nah.
comes stock with the CEL?
What a monster. 🐍
These things are bolt-ons away from 550 wheel horsepower which is neat.
Love em.
Love mine😎
I was waiting for the car to lose it on the 0-60 launch and go into a crowd of spectators while one guy yells, "he too old! He too old!"
I was 14 when this came out
Watching this reminds me why the terminator was still king back then.
The 03-04 Terminators are better cars all around
And their not ugly as shit
No they weren't
I have a Triple Black 2010, never selling it!
Do the 2014 GT500 next
I graduated in 07.
@@8bitDNA if you got em
Now a variant of what is a Mustang GT essentially makes the same hp as the 2007 gt500.
yeah but this is $43k new
True, but with a simple blower pulley and tune, this GT500 will make over 600 hp
@@B86432
How much is the new GT in States?
43k + 15 years of inflation.
16 more years of technology, research and development.
@@B86432trust me, you could not get one at that price at the time. Dealers everywhere marked them up to gouge people.
The King 👑 has returnith 🤣🤣🤣 n to this day!! Ohhhhh and I might add will be the only 1 standing!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Nobody should be surprised that with the big V8 in the front it plows like a John Deere 8020 in the corners.
I like this body style a lot better than the 2024 mustang horse 🐎 car 🚘
Can someone explain to me why an E92 M3 with 200tq less perform similarly in terms of straight away performance?
way less weight , different gearing, german engineering etc..
Tires, gearing.
Gearing is the big answer: while the bmw has 200tq less, the power difference is much smaller, and as long as you have sufficiently short gearing that's all that matters for acceleration.
It's also possible that the BMW had more favorable suspension geometry and weight distribution for a hard launch; the review here does say the Mustang is front-heavy (and sure enough, those twin-cam Modulars with tons of stroke were total boat anchors) so it's really no surprise that it can't put enough weight on the rear tires.
For the same reason the M5/M6 ran about as fast. Weight, gearing. As others have mentioned.
Tires are the main reason imo
Not bad car saw one for $27.000 in mint condition manual.
Mustang 🔥🔥🔥🔥
These were better than a 401k.
How much is 2008 Shelby convertible go for nowadays?
As awesome iconic and badass and legendary this exact car is and deserves the praise it once deserved it goes for around mid 30s which I find ridiculous its too much even for this legendary car this car is a solid 20k car all day but 30s and for super clean ones 40s? Man that's too much
I Am Legend
MAN WHEN I SAW THAT MOVIE FOR THE FIRST TIME I WAS HOOKED AND I WANTED A 07 TORCH RED WITH WHITE STRIPES GT500 BUT HONESTLY AT THE TIME I COULDN'T AFFORD ONE BUT MANY YEARS LATER I HAVE A 08 GT500 IN THE SAME COLOR AS I AM LEGAND AND I LOVE THE CAR.
It’s The Real Deal
I remember driving one of these when they came out and being so underwhelmed. The gearshift handle was like grabbing a softball it was so big, the car felt numb and heavy, but more importantly it’s wasn’t that quick and very little exhaust growl/engine sound. This was at a time when Ford dealers were asking $75k for them, which was absolutely insane considering the far better driving and much faster C6 Z06 had just come out the year prior for about the same price after you figured the Shelby’s markup. Luckily some of the issues were addressed with later versions
Whats it mean when someone says it feels numb?
@@brandonrickbornponyexpress6574 it means it’s like you are playing a video game or driving a simulator, you turn the steering back and forth and there is no communication coming back from the front tires. Gives you no confidence to push the car hard at all. I have driven a new GT500 though and they’ve come a long way, despite even more weight and power it’s steering actually transmitted actual road feel
You must’ve got a bad one! 2009 lol is anything but numb. And I’ve never been been told it’s slow 🤦🏻♂️
@jameswillard1 oh thank you
Man u must've had a lemon or lying because I've been in these cars even the early ones and there awesome feel great and pretty good around the corners I dunno if u had ridiculous high expectations or ur soft but completely disagree with almost everything else u said
0-60 and 1/4 would've been quicker if TCS was activated and Ford used the NITTO tires instead of those lousy Goodyear tires.
Download test drive Ford Crown Victoria LX Sport 2003🙏🏻❤
Car deserves the respect it once got modern society failed this car as usual
Well, now I’m old
Exactly. All these great '80's & '90's (which is what Retro Review SHOULD mean!) reviews they haven't uploaded yet, & they seem to be stuck on the mid-to-late 2000's lately.
@@landyachtfan79 thats true. they seem to have just uploaded an 80s car today I think. But for god sakes I was born in 2007!
The interior difference between New Edge and S197 is night and day. Even when the New Edge was new it's interior was awful even compared to f bodies of the time.
These cars with just springs shocks, intake ,tune, and pulley are drastically better and are awesome cars
07 is Retro? Wow.....
Exactly. All these great '80's & '90's (which is what Retro Review SHOULD mean!) reviews they haven't uploaded yet, & they seem to be stuck on the mid-to-late 2000's lately.
Absolutely is
I'll never understand the performance numbers this car made. With 500 horsepower, it really should have been faster. I know it has trouble putting the power down, but its trap speed is still underwhelming. Even if it was underrated, the terminator cobra had a far worse power/weight ratio, and was just as fast.
They said in the video it was damp out.
The terminator cobra was faster than this. Overall a better car too.
They can’t drive. My 2009 gt500 stock did 12.31 at 116 mph with a 2.09 60 ft time. Now currently does 11.3 at 125 mph with a pulley and tune. And that’s street tires and 60ft 2.0. These cars aren’t slow. They needed driver mods. And yes I’d can get better than 2.0 60 ft but I’m ez on this car
WELL BROTHER I HAVE BOTH CARS AND MY 04 COBRA IN STOCK FORM IS ROUGHLY 425HP AND IT WEIGHS 3400LBS BUT MY 08 GT500 IN STOCK FORM IS ROUGHLY 500HP BUT IT WEIGHS 3900LBS LOL MY POINT IS 500LBS IS A LOT MORE WEIGHT AND WITH ONLY A 75HPS DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO LOL THE WEIGHT IS WHAT MAKES THE DIFFERENCE BUT I WILL SAY THIS MY BUDDY BOUGHT A WHITE WITH BLUE STRIPES 07 GT500 AND WITH JUST EXHAUST AND HEADERS AND A SET OF 410S AND A PULLIE AND A TUNE LOL THE CAR LAYED DOWN A 11.1 AT 126MPH LOL SO WITH JUST EXHAUST AND HEADERS AND A PULLIE AND A TUNE LOL THAT'S VERY IMPRESSIVE.
This is incorrect the GT500 is quite faster and looked way cooler
Marginally better than the cobra?
Cripes this Mustang has the same interior as the current Mustang 🤣
Still nicer than the 2024 Camaro😂
Perception is alway fickle... Top Gear's review(back in 2007) completely thrashed the then new GT500, but we all know better...(hehehe)
Man love the exhaust of this, but it looks like now some Sport Sedans can beat this Shelby now in a drag race.
It looks like u don't understand how 16 years of technology works how insane prices work how crazy markups work how better materials to work with discovered work etc etc
the 08 was a lot better.
The new mustang is cheaper and much better
120 feet 60-0 for brake performance? It really was just a huge engine stuffed in a car, and no other considerations were made.
12.9
slow for 500hp
Limited traction with those stock tires and tall gearing.
Yeah that's pretty slow the 03-04 Terminator cobras we're faster Better Built as well
The tires on these were so shit all they did was spin
@@eternalthread7846 I don't really think there was too much good to say about the car it was really heavy as well
@@nathanlopez5667 I think it a great looking car with a solid power plant but I do agree it’s inferior to the terminator, this gt 500 does deserve some respect bc it kickstarted the return of the gt 500 in the mustang line up
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Never cool to like your own comment. BTW only children put comment of first.
@@Chrispbacon99 jealous?
Love the car but the interior is horrible
How I feel about the corvette C5
@@mariokart8054 Basically any C4, C5, C6 & C7 Corvette...
@@05gtdriver C6 interior was boring but at least it was functional and didn't literally fall apart or share the head unit with their SUVs like the C5. Hard disagree on the C7, My dad's interior held up well and looked great, unless you know something I don't and the stitching would come undone at 30,000 miles or something
@mariokart8054 I was referring to the quality in regards to the price point of a modern C4 & newer Corvette. When a simple Corolla interior outshines a
car costing 4 times as much, it's sort of sad.
Yeah, I know, Mustang interiors after 1973 are pretty crappy too. The S550 Mustang is much better, but not like the German or high-end Japanese stuff.
At the time it was considered leaps and bounds more attractive than the New Edge interior. I’ve owned both and in terms of quality of materials, it was marginally better.
FAR less squeaks, creaks, and rattles than F-bodies though
Fun fact: every mustang come with its own numbers matching purse 👛
And every Camaro and Challenger came with a rainbow flag included! 🏳️🌈
Get em
Fun fact every charger challenger and camaro come with there own death certificate seeing as they always end up getting slaughtered and dying a brutal death to the mustang until barley being brought back just to go away again
05-09 were garbage.
So we’re the 69-70 Shelbys but I’d take one all day long
AND WHAT YEAR GT500 DO YOU HAVE. LOL JUST CURIOUS LOL PLEASE TELL ME.
Disagree they were icons
Why?
Iconic car
Fck im getting old
I saw one of these in my town just yesterday. It was a dark Cherry red with white stripes. Probably a rare example, as it looked stock and un-screwed with. I wonder what these sell for today, hmm?…
35 grand