Ripper: The owner of the local Ford Dealership and I raced boats together for 2 years. We are very close, like brothers, close. I really happened to buy this Cobra quite by accident. I had a supercharged Focus and was looking into buying either a Baby Grand or Legend racecar. I have previously owned 2 Mustang GT's. After he told me about the 01 Cobra, my mind was made up. Why not own a car that I can drive to work, charge off on my business, and race every day, instead of once a month. According to him: Ford released the 99 Cobras with much less than quoted horsepower. With the bad publicity, Mustang SVT division was told to either get it right or don't build it, hence, no 2000 Cobras. Now for the 01 Cobra. Ford boasts 320hp at 6000 rpm, bull!!!
My car with 2100 miles on it dynoed 338 rwhp@6600 rpm with a DiabloSport chip installed. The 01 Cobra has independent rear suspension. It is without a doubt, the finest riding, best handling Mustang that I have ever driven. Ford SVT literature claims that the car will run 150 mph, again wrong! I have had the car to 155, I didn't believe it, put my GPS and radar gun inside, sure enough, 155 mph. I don't know if it will run any faster, I ran out of road.
SVT literature boasts the car will quarter mile in 13.7 seconds, wrong again, it ran 12.96 on DOT road race tires, at 85 degree temperatures with 100% humidity. So far, everything that Ford has boasted in the SVT manual has been underquoted. If you can buy the car for Sticker Price, GET IT. The largest dealer in Houston had one Cobra, white, he wanted $5000.00 over sticker. The average price at all Southern Ford dealers is $3500 over sticker. Through my buddy at the dealership here, I got mine for sticker, he is not an SVY dealer, so he could not sell or transfer any SVT's here. He did, however, use one of his favors with a SVT dealer in Mobile, Alabama to get the car at sticker.
Go and drive the car, you will crave it. Be sure to turn off the traction control when driving the Cobra. The orange light will be on when the traction control is off. The traction control senses wheel spin and applies the rear brakes to control spin, it sucks!!!
I have yet to find anything that I am not pleased with on this car. The stereo is awesome, the power is intimidating, the car is beautiful. Give me your e-mail address and I will e-mail you a few pics. Or give me a call at 1-888-544-4626.
Thanks
Danny
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