The Saleen-built Gurney Signature Copy Mustang absolutely boasts an absorbing blueprint chart. Beneath the awning lies the company's supercharged, 4.6-liter V-8, acceptable for 465 application and agriculture a short-throw five-speed chiral that drives a 3.73 Max Anchor bound slip. Abeyance is a annealed Racecraft architecture with a Gen-II Watts-Link rear end (a aboriginal for a Saleen), which lowers the car's cycle centermost and helps accumulate the alive arbor centered beneath the car (improving administration balance). Tires are high-performance Pirelli P Zero Corsas (285/30ZR-19s in front, 285/35ZR-19s in back) on five-spoke Heritage Copy gray alloys. Brakes are 14-inch vented discs with four-piston calipers up front, 11.8-inch vented discs at the rear.
The dress-up includes a Gurney anatomy kit, "duck-bill" rear spoiler, awning pins, and custom graphics. Inside anticipate accomplished covering action seats with Alcantara inserts, actor addition and air-temp gauges, and Gurney's felt-pen signature absolutely on the centermost of the dash.
Compared with a assembly Shelby GT500, the Gurney Mustang bliss out 35 beneath horsepower. But you'd hardly apperceive it by the stopwatch. The Gurney rockets to 60 mph in aloof 4.3 abnormal (same as the aftermost GT500 we tested) and trips the quarter-mile lights in 12.9 abnormal at 111.3 mph (compared with 12.6 abnormal at 114.2 mph for the Shelby). Braking achievement is absolutely bigger than the GT500's: the Gurney stops in aloof 108 feet, against 118 for the branch Ford. And acknowledgment to its Racecraft underpinnings and grippy Corsas, the Gurney trumps the GT500 on administration power, active our absolute Figure 8 analysis in aloof 25.5 abnormal (versus 25.9 for the GT500) and wringing out 0.96 g of best crabbed anchor (compared with 0.89 g for the Shelby).
So, for sure, the Gurney copy reveals the accomplishment of its namesake, decidedly on the administration course. But how is it in the absolute world? Interesting you should acknowledgment that. I'd alleged Gurney to altercate his signature car, and during our babble The Master asked, "What do you anticipate of it?" Gulp. Dan Gurney is allurement for my active feedback.
I swallowed adamantine and stepped into the breach. "Honestly, I anticipate the springs are too hard. I anticipate you could abate them, alleviate up the damping a bit, and accomplish the car added advantageous to drive on accustomed anchorage after giving up a lot of administration capability. I additionally noticed a few hiccups in the burke response, which sometimes continues to cycle on back you lift off for an upshift and sometimes hits a asleep atom back you're aggravating to bleep the gas for a heel-and-toe downshift."
Gurney was bashful for a moment. I started to diaphoresis a little, again he answered: "I accede with you completely. I anticipate what we've got actuality is a car that's abundant for addition who wants achievement optimized for the slalom course, but I wouldn't apperception abatement the abeyance a bit -- after adopting the ride acme much. You don't charge a chase car on the street. A softer bureaucracy would be added like what a guy at my adorable age would enjoy." Gurney additionally accustomed that he too had noticed the burke issue. "It's the abandoned return. Has to do with affair emissions. I anticipate we may be able to adamant that out eventually." Gurney went on to advance that he'd alike like to see an automated manual offered in approaching versions of the car. "Ford has one accessible to go. Would assignment abundant in this car."
Of course, by attributes Gurney is a abecedarian -- alike the Saleen association will accept that, if he could, he'd consistently be authoritative tweaks to his Mustang actuality or there. Which is not to say that Gurney is annoyed with his signature steed as it is now. "It's a admirable affair to accept a Mustang with my name on it," he says, the pride in his articulation loud and clear.
Saleen offers the Gurney in aloof three colors: Achievement White, Torch Red, or Vista Blue. You won't absence it back one rolls by: It's adamantine to avoid those racing-stripe accents and the Gurney Eagle logos brindled about. Each of the 300 cars stickers for $58,000, with the alone extra-cost advantage actuality rear window louvers.
If you buy one, be abiding to accumulate the barn locked. Otherwise, one night Gurney ability bastard in and
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