It's "official":
The cover of AUTOMOBILE magazine has the "Ford Shelby Cobra" concept car at the top (very small I might add...) and it says "
FORD'S SHELBY COBRA CONCEPT SAYS:
"WERE OFFICIALLY OUT OF NEW IDEA'S!"
On page 74 were the article starts it says:
SHED THIS SKIN!
UNDER ITS UGLY EXTERIOR, THE FORD SHELBY COBRA HAS THE MAKINGS OF A GREAT SPORTS CAR.
This quote says it all:
"To our eyes, the Shelby Cobra is a large, brutal cartoon of a car, and it misses the essence of the roadster that came out of Shelby's shop forty years ago, which was a sensuous, rebenesque nude with a big motor. The shelby concept doesn't revive the past, it tortures it. Only when this snake sheds its skin and reveals the gorgeous aluminum work beneath does it capture the spirt of the original."
The article pretty much says what we have said on this forum...
Chassis/engine..... A+
Body.......................D-
Oh, by the way....the article also had this little statement added to it:
"....but you can see elements of the original Cobra ( itself a bulked-up version of the AC Ace, a British interpretation of the barchetta-style bodywork for the Ferrari 166MM)."
