Brits pay $76k for the GT500?

For Ford fans in the UK, the new 2007 Shelby GT500, a 500-horsepower supercharged Mustang, comes at a price. £40,000, nearly $76,000 in the US, to be exact. In a video on YouTube, Fifth Gear personality, Jason Plato, slides the GT500 around the track while evaluating if a £20,000 increase to import the muscle car over to the UK is really worth it.

Plato doesn't let those 500 wheel-spinning ponies under the hood distract him from telling it like it is. He describes the interior as "crap," and he's absolutely right. American automakers have always seemed to cut corners on the fit and finish of cheap interior materials. The fact that the GT500 still uses that lame retro-style font on gauge digits doesn't help either. Plato is also critcal of the handling, and he has every reason to be. For this kind of a money and with this much power, handling needs to be nothing short of spectacular, usable for more than just weekend trips to the dragstrip.