Review: '11 Mustang Shelby has racer's edge

August 18, 2011 9:44 AM By STEVEN COLE SMITH The Orlando Sentinel

Photo credit: Sportscars | The 2011 Mustang Shelby GT350.

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Can we agree that some cars are for transportation, and some are for, well, other things? The 2011 Ford Mustang Shelby GT350 is only incidentally transportation, in the sense that a 100-foot yacht might also be used as a fishing boat.

This is not to say there aren't plenty of good, tangible reasons to buy a Shelby GT350, and I have a long list of my own. But let's not pretend any of those...

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