📰 Auto News GT500KR underrated?

[Mook]

slooooooooooow news day

There's horsepower, and then there's dyno-tested, can't-lie-to-your-friends horsepower. If you want to know how much power a car really makes, you've got to strap it to a dyno and spin it to redline. The guys over at 5.0 Mustang & Super Fords are always eager to find the true horsepower of a car, and so when they took delivery of a GT500KR to review they headed straight to the dyno to see how much power the supercharged V8 is putting out. What they found was somewhat surprising -- the KR produced 509 horsepower and 467.7 lb.-ft. torque to the wheels. Adjusting for an estimated driveline loss of 15 percent, the actual output at the flywheel is 589.82 hp and 550.24 lb-ft torque -- nearly 50 more horsepower and 40 more lb-ft than Ford is claiming.

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[Fish]

Its still a big bitch, coupled with the fact that I will probably never get Val Kilmers voice out of my head if I ever drove one.

 

[02BlueGT]

they gave a lower rating for insurance, or the company got a factory freak

 

[Burtonrider10022]

bullshit.

something is wrong here

 

[PANDA]

So we got a Ford with almost 600HP that runs 12's.

 

[CamaroSS]

yeah but the motor can handle 63715637815612351hp on stock everything

 

[Burtonrider10022]

 

[4DRZ06]

The srt-4 hp was underratted as well they do that shit all the time.

 

[Poopshinanigans]

But what if the motor was underrated, there was an article posted up about the ZR1 and how they are really afraid of making an over rated engine. So they underrate everything so that they all meet the standard. Then when the motor makes the factory crank number at the wheels when you dyno it, then you feel giddy and happy and warm.

 

[Primalzer]

I think a lot of car manufacturers are scared of underrating there motors. Remember back in 2001 when Ford underrated the power of the Cobra and gave the choice to the owners of Ford buying back all of the cars. I don't think in this economy a company, no matter how large can afford to have a publicity blunder.

 

[blakbearddelite]

I think a lot of car manufacturers are scared of underrating there motors. Remember back in 2001 when Ford underrated the power of the Cobra and gave the choice to the owners of Ford buying back all of the cars. I don't think in this economy a company, no matter how large can afford to have a publicity blunder.

I think it was the '99 Cobra's. They were putting out equal (and in some cases) less hp than the GT's.

 

[Mook]

yea, the 99 cobra motors were epic fail

 

[Primalzer]

Either way, ill agree, fail

 

[Mook]

I think a lot of car manufacturers are scared of underrating there motors. Remember back in 2001 when Ford underrated the power of the Cobra and gave the choice to the owners of Ford buying back all of the cars. I don't think in this economy a company, no matter how large can afford to have a publicity blunder.

wouldnt you rather UNDERRATE the power then overrate it? like mazda did w/ the rx8

 

[Poopshinanigans]

wouldnt you rather UNDERRATE the power then overrate it? like mazda did w/ the rx8

Oh yeah, and then people have the balls to sue them for false advertising. It also doesn't help that they changed the ratings system for 2008 i believe.

 

[blakbearddelite]

wouldnt you rather UNDERRATE the power then overrate it? like mazda did w/ the rx8

i think he originally meant "over-rated", and then people got pissed off when the had a GT running right along side them. i know i'd be.

 

[Stink Star]

so who actually cares about this car? in order to get one you have to be on a waiting list for 5 years then pay $40k over sticker when you could have just gone over to your GM dealer and gotten a Z06 and been faster and got better fuel economy for less dough...

 

[Mook]

i just posted cause i had nothing else newsworthy to post

 

[CamaroSS]

i just posted cause i had nothing else newsworthy to post

sure...... you closet mustang nut hugger

 

[Slider]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=i0s4OAMISN4

Maybe Top Gear got a bad one or they just lied, they dynoed it less than that.

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

so who actually cares about this car? in order to get one you have to be on a waiting list for 5 years then pay $40k over sticker when you could have just gone over to your GM dealer and gotten a Z06 and been faster and got better fuel economy for less dough...

agreed.

oh i saw your s2000 today....sneaky parking with the bumper up close to the wall.

 

[blakbearddelite]

Maybe Top Gear got a bad one or they just lied, they dynoed it less than that.

I don't think that was the KR in the video, just your run of the mill GT500.

 

[Stink Star]

agreed.

oh i saw your s2000 today....sneaky parking with the bumper up close to the wall.

haha, yea i gotta hide that shit! its so embarrasing driving a nice/uncommon car with body damage!

 

[4DRZ06]

It was not the kr.

 

[Poopshinanigans]

that was wheel hp too, Top Gear never seems to tell you that its comparing crank to wheel. Like in the 10K super car challenge/