OK, here's the basis for everything I've said:
http://www.nadaguides.com/Prices/St...&ex2=&in=&ct=4&yr=2003&mk=1065&md=3501&sy=246
http://www.nadaguides.com/Prices/St...2=&in=&ct=4&yr=2004&mk=1065&md=8775&sy=127361
Notice that the standard features for the GT (list price $24,555) does not include the $345 interior upgrade package, the $730 ABS braking system option, or the $395 deluxe wheel option- all things I would expect to see on a "fully loaded" GT, which is what I was comparing to a base '03 Cobra. This brings list up to $26,025. Now, some people don't consider even a Mustang to be fully loaded without an automatic transmission- that's a $815 option which brings the list up to $26,840. Now, if the fully loaded GT in question is a convertable
http://www.nadaguides.com/Prices/St...2=&in=&ct=4&yr=2004&mk=1065&md=8775&sy=127365 then we are up to $30,015.
Now, going back to
http://www.nadaguides.com/Prices/St...&ex2=&in=&ct=4&yr=2003&mk=1065&md=3501&sy=246, the base invoice price (what the dealer pays the manufacturer) for a Premium GT, which you claim to have paid $19,615 for, is $22,470. In other words, $2,855 less than the dealership you bought it from paid for it. And you say I'm lying and scewing prices? Now stay with me here, because I realise you feel like you're arguing with a child and I really want you to get this:
I realise that you live in TEXAS. I found all those NADA prices, which I matched against KBB prices, by punching in
my zip code. These are normal prices for where I live. I don't know what your zip code is, but rather than accuse you of lying about how much you paid for your Premium GT I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that if I ran these same searches with your zip, totally different numbers would have come up. My arguably unfortunate reality is that I live in one of the most expensive areas in America, where $1000 a month won't rent you a two bedroom dump. You will notice however, that a base '03 Cobra is still just $33,460 here. The real panty bunch munch that's going on here is that this is all totally off topic. To bring it
back into perspective-
this is my issue and it's why I made the mistake of ever posting in this thread in the first place:
http://www.nadaguides.com/Values/Va...akeId=1143&VehicleId=52664&Year=2002&ColorId=That's a top of the line WS6 loaded with every option on the list checked, and zero miles which means it is still sitting on a dealer lot brand new. Six Tremec factory gears and enough power to hang with or flat out roast any Mustang but the Cobra off the dealer lot, and a sport tuned
suspension that makes my dads '01 GT feel like a pickup truck on backroads. It's the same transmission, I don't see what's so difficult about this.