The 2013 Shelby Cobra is all kinds of awesome. It’s good looking, fast, and highly sought after. If you have one we are a bit jealous because we love it. Apparently someone over at Shelby thought it wasn’t enough. I know when I drove it I thought to myself, you know 600+ hp just does not quite get the job done. Ok that’s a lie never said that, but clearly someone did because Shelby has decided the world needs a version that makes 1200hp. Sure why not?

What you get is more of everything. Better suspension, more boost, more brakes, and more insanity. This all of course comes at much more cost. $150,000 more, on top of the cost of your GT500. So this folks is a $200,000 muscle car. Now here is the thing, you could build a 1200hp Mustang for a fraction of that yourself with aftermarket parts, but this isn’t about the horsepower really. This is a collector car. Sure Shelby will sell a few of these and they will promptly go into a museum or a collection never to be driven and then 30 years from now they will show up at an auction. That is the point of these cars. It’s a shame really. The Shelby 1000 is super cool, too cool to be wasted on some douche who will never drive it.

To further sadden you, if you crunch the numbers on this and many other muscle cars the 1960s and 1970s counterparts cost literally fractions of these. I’m talking accounting for inflation, adjusting for air bags and other safety gobbly gook a Shelby Mustang of say 1969 variety would cost today around $20,000. That tells you how much the car industry is just screwing over buyers today. It’s sad really. The great news is like I said earlier, you can buy yourself a new Mustang for around $30,000 and make it go like hell for not much more then that.

If you want to see more pics of the Shelby 1000, and trust me you do, hit the jump for pics and full press release.
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