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This month's "Automobile" magazine ( December p.56 "VOODOO MAGIC" ) authored by Michael Jordan objectively tests out & thumbs-up reviews the 2016 Shelby GT350 after a spin around Laguna Seca. Accolades ascribed to the car such as -"This is the coolest engine we've driven in a long time...", and "Ford engineers have tamed the physics thanks to clever work with materials, carefully balanced components, and expensive details..." .
And, it slips in at the article's conclusion that" "Spies tell us that it cuts quicker lap times at... Laguna Seca than a Chevrolet Camaro Z/28.
So, factually- all fine, and worthy of your perusal ... BUT-
FOOTNOTE :
As an aside to the bulk of the review, I personally took note of what, in my opinion, seems to be a possible anti-Mustang
owner "Freudian slip" in spite of the facts of his review.
Although, I have never written a letter-to-the-editor , I felt compelled to express my distaste for an attempt to be too clever, again, IMO, as Jordan, opens the account with an uncool allusion to Pony enthusiasts as follows:
"But Mustang guys are not necessarily just young and dumb these days..."
He continues that the GT350 gives him this new-found "insight", to which I defended- that many of us "Mustang guys", whom date back to the Mustang's earliest days, may no longer be "young", but, we had the insight and foresight to recognize that something about the Mustang that makes it the ONLY auto, in it's class, to overcome all obstacles, and successfully persevere 50 YEARS AND COUNTING !
Better late than never, I guess.
Dick
And, it slips in at the article's conclusion that" "Spies tell us that it cuts quicker lap times at... Laguna Seca than a Chevrolet Camaro Z/28.
So, factually- all fine, and worthy of your perusal ... BUT-
FOOTNOTE :
As an aside to the bulk of the review, I personally took note of what, in my opinion, seems to be a possible anti-Mustang
owner "Freudian slip" in spite of the facts of his review.
Although, I have never written a letter-to-the-editor , I felt compelled to express my distaste for an attempt to be too clever, again, IMO, as Jordan, opens the account with an uncool allusion to Pony enthusiasts as follows:
"But Mustang guys are not necessarily just young and dumb these days..."
He continues that the GT350 gives him this new-found "insight", to which I defended- that many of us "Mustang guys", whom date back to the Mustang's earliest days, may no longer be "young", but, we had the insight and foresight to recognize that something about the Mustang that makes it the ONLY auto, in it's class, to overcome all obstacles, and successfully persevere 50 YEARS AND COUNTING !
Better late than never, I guess.
Dick
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