Junk? Awwww, c'mon man.....
Go drive one and then call 'em junk. They're GREAT IMO and I'm sorry to say, a much nicer interior and ride than our '05's. Go sit in one yourself and see. Go further and test drive one, if you can.....if your blood doesn't run hot then check for a pulse!
Helluva lot of performance for an 'old-fashioned' pushrod V8. And some great other hardware to back it up. Go over to
http://www.ls1gto.com and read all the drag racing stories of stock vs. stock Mustangs and GTO's and you'll find far more kill stories there than you will here.
So its not everyone's cup of tea to look at. Beauty is subjective, man, and some people like a stealthier approach....imagine driving a performance car that most cops don't even look twice at and you'll see the benefits!
Take the subjective "its ugly" statement away and most people are hard pressed to come up with anything else negative about the car. Personally I think they look pretty sharp from certain angles, they're just not "retro" and therefor, by definition, most of us '05 Mustang fans won't appreciate the look.
Why'd I end up with a Mustang GT? Both ended up with pluses and minuses in my book (that were purely personal opinion and not worth going in to here) that made them come out about equal, and the 'Stang was cheaper, and the Pontiac sales manager was a ******** (a trait endemic to the breed, I'm told)!
A lot of GTO owners look down on us Mustang drivers as snobbish and that just kills me. In this day and age when OPEC, the Fed, Insurance companies etc. are doing there best to threaten our muscle car heritage and our ability to buy a fine driving machine in this class, I applaud any manufacturer with the
stones to make a wicked V8 rear-wheel drive manual-trans-option speed machine for the public - dangit man, we're
bruthas with these folks fer cripe's sake......so if u got 2 h8 sumthin y not h8 ricers insted?? :gringreen
(sob)...why can't we all....just....get along!....(sob)........:weeps
I DO agree that "damn Ford hit the nail on the head" with our cars, noo argument there...buuuuuttt....hey your GT ain't exactly stock like that GTO was,is it? Still got that K&N installed? Counts as a mod right?