Originally Posted by cwdilg
I had an 01 SVT Cobra Convertible. New right off the floor from my local Ford dealer. He should have passed you like greased lightning. He wasn't trying.
I used to be at 110 B4 the end of most highway entrance ramps and have to back off to regular traffic speed. The Crossfire is good, but it doesn't have 320 ponies like the Cobra did.
I am also a big Mustang guy (own a '69 Mach I), and there's no way an XFire can keep up with a cobra if the driver's trying - even an AMATEUR driver - at least on a straight-away (I have no problem believing the turning parts though). A Cobra uses a Supercharged 4.6L V-8 that pushes out
390HP. If you read reviews of the Cobra, you'll see it is considered a viable competitor to the Corvette, and even a die-hard X-fire freak like me knows we ain't touching a 'vette.
Nevertheless, I love reading kill stories. And once I figure out how to drop the new 5.7L HEMI in our engine bay, we'll be eating 'vettes and pissing cobras.