Shelby Cobra GT500KR

I don’t know about anyone else, though I’d suspect that many chins are now, like mine, sopping wet with drool over the Carroll Shelby’s return to the pony car in 2008. The “Super Snake,” as it’s being called, will have a limited run, only 1000 will be built, which means that it’s time to start selling unnecessary body parts immediately if you have to have one.

Not that anyone has to have a 5.4-liter supercharged V-8 under the hood, with a Ford Racing Power Upgrade Pack that boosts horsepower to an estimated 540 and torque to 510 ft.-lbs. You can still get to work and the grocery store in a rinky-dink Saturn, but driving that car won’t exactly blow anyone’s hair back. Nor will it do 0-60 mph in less time than it takes to say “holy shit!”

SHELBY GT500KR MAKES COVER OF MOTOR TREND’S JUNE 2007 ISSUE [shelbyautos.com]