2011 Super Snake vs 427 Cobra - Baddest Shelby Ever
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00:10 Badass, nasty, fast, all synonyms for the Cobra.
00:21 Carroll Shelby's car he built in the 60s by stuffing a big Ford motor into a tiny
00:26 English sports car and unleashing it on tracks and streets across the world.
00:30 When you say badass cars, this is what comes to most people's minds.
00:33 We think Carroll's outdone himself though, and
00:35 just today with the 2011 Shelby Super Snake.
00:39 750 horsepower and a factory warranty.
00:42 We think it's badder than that one and faster, and
00:44 we're about to find out by taking them to the drag strip.
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00:50 And the road course.
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00:55 The 427 Cobra is what it's always been.
00:59 It's the nastiest thing you'd ever wanna drive with four wheels.
01:03 It's an in your face, punch them in the eye, no creature comforts,
01:09 no holds barred, the cup holder, it's whoever's sitting beside you.
01:13 By the way, when you stand on the gas,
01:15 they're gonna wear what's ever in that drink.
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01:21 So it's a nasty, nasty car, and that's exactly what you want sometimes.
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02:16 That's the finest engine I think that's ever been built in America,
02:31 that Ford 5.4, four valve.
02:33 And I couldn't get them to put more than 500 horsepower in it for a long time.
02:40 I decided to put bigger brakes and wheels and tires and
02:46 suspension, change the suspension and crank it up to 750.
02:51 Thought we'd build a super snake and we've been successful doing that.
02:54 There's quite a bit of demand for it, even during the recession.
02:58 The recession's been pretty tough on us up here in Las Vegas.
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03:05 The super snake on the road course is very refined.
03:09 It does everything just exactly as you'd expect it to.
03:12 It doesn't seem to really take any effort.
03:14 It's got a ton of power.
03:16 So if you get on the throttle too fast, it will just light the tires up,
03:20 which is fun if you can catch it.
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03:31 Two very, very different cars.
03:42 We got to experience both today on a road course.
03:45 Cobra, brutally fast.
03:47 It's that gorilla in the boxing ring.
03:49 Super snake, you can go just as fast in a Mustang that's actually much
03:55 larger with a lot of creature comforts.
03:57 But it's easy to drive, it's easy to live with, and
04:01 it's silly fast on the drag strip.
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04:40 If I had to pick one car for the weekend to go out and have fun and play,
04:43 it would be the Cobra, without a doubt.
04:46 If I had to pick a car that you can drive every day, commute in,
04:50 effortless clutch, I mean, it's like a stock Mustang.
04:55 But when you put the hammer down, it's ungodly fast.
04:58 That would be the Super Snake.
05:00 Performance numbers and creature comforts and all that involved,
05:04 the Super Snake, we think, is the baddest Shelby of all time.
05:07 The good old days, my friend, is today.
05:10 You can have either one.
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05:16 >> I just built me a 289 slab side Cobra with a fiberglass body and
05:20 an automatic transmission, and that's what I'd rather drive than any of them.
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