2001 Ford SVT Mustang Cobra & Mustang Bullitt GT | Retro Review 

Any issued with it? Has it been reliable?

My Camry will keep up with it now tho 😮

​@@vidsbfree4me Camry's trapping 106mph in the quarter? I didn't think so.

Never buy the one one the showroom floor that’s the one everybody sits in and plays with the ac/ heat buttons and pump the gas😢

@@vidsbfree4me Even if that were true (it isn't), it's still a Toyota Camry and will never be a Mustang. Everyone likes different cars and acceleration isn't everything. Also if only speaking acceleration wise, this still would only be a fair comparison of a Camry made in 01, which took 8 secs to get to 60 mph, and that was the "SE Sport" version, not the vanilla. Even the '24 Camry still takes 7.6 secs to get to 60, still not even on par with a base 01 Mustang V6 (7 secs flat).

Those 2V cars were a joke. 260 hp out of a “muscle car” was pathetic, even for its home. The Camaros were hurting feelings even if they didn’t look as good.

​@juanrivas494 260 hp was a healthy, if not awe-inspiring figure for the late 90s. It was almost as powerful as an NSX or a 911 for the time.

@@TheSmokingDen Having a 260 hp 4.6 V8 in 2001 and being less powerful than the 290hp V6 2001 NSX and 300hp 2001 V6 911 Carrera is rather abysmal. Just two years later, the 3.5 V6 Infinity G35 was making the same amount of horsepower. What's really sad is the 1989 Taurus SHO was making 220 hp out of 3.0 V6, you would think an engine 50% larger and with two extra cylinders would be a lot more powerful than a 12 year old design.

@@juanrivas494take a hike.

@@JacobPaul-ix7ocThose 4.6 V8s were not really made for performance, they were made for reliability and it was basically a small truck engine. It’s a modular V8 so it’s not hard to get more power out of them

Love my true blue 01

This car had to grow on my generation. We liked the retro styling. Since this looks the least like a mustang it's the most visually appealing to me now

@@enhancementtank5876I agree, I preferred the Fox at first, than I liked the SN95s for many years, it took me seeing tastefully modified New Edges to fall in love with them.. I still believe straight out of the factory a 94-98 is better looking, but when both are tastefully modified the New Edge timeless aggressive look wins every time..

Complimentary kick in the BALLZ

Fax

Kick ass automobile 🚘

... "a head" ...

Ya not really, lol

What are you smoking?

Hommie do a quick inflation calculator these cars are the same price as they have always been

$30,000 from 2001 is $52,000 in todays dollars. The prices are the same, but a $52,000 Mach 1 is FAR more capable. Problem is cost for other items, including necessities has risen faster than inflation, so there is less disposable income for cars, it gives the impression that they are much more expensive now. Id be curious to do inflation calculations on say a 2000 Honda Civic to Todays model.

@@TJDST4 😆

@@tyhyhh 😆

Lol what do you think it's gonna do, drop it into the 12s? 😆 🤣 These ran lowER 13s with drag radials, which were still better for drag racing than today's zr performance tires.

100% it would brake way better and maybe get off the line slightly easier, plus the handling. tire tech in the last 20 years has jumped so far. You have all season tires now that are better than slicks from 20 years ago

Good point. Like to see some Michelin 4s or cup 2's on it. Agree, the compounds and tire construction has come a long way since 2001.

Probably DRs with full air in them 😂😂😂 not aired down ​@@DrBeef216

@@2001chevycamaross Slicks? 😆 🤣 😂 what a load of bull. Is this what you tell yourself when you get knocked silly by modern cars to make yourself feel better?

his boomer was showing

still holds true

@@frankangelsolisah yes, you mean a 6-speed manual. Let me guess, you want a car with a CVT.

@@ErwinSchrodinger64 no thanks, Im a tremec T56 fan.

The Tremec in this car was great.

More like $58K. That was a "$60,000" car in 2001, which is essentially what an equivalent Mustang of today is.

And comical quality..

Calm down champ. A 2024 Ecoboost also runs a 13.7 in the 1/4, is safer, better nvh, more reliable, significantly more tech etc etc etc and starts at $32K. A GT would CRUSH this cobra and starts at 43K.

It’s not just a ford problem though

And $29k in 2001 is $50k in 2024. F*** me RU-vid commenters are dense.

I'm a Chevy guy as much as I hate to admit it but I do like the 94-04 body style. Especially the sound of it with the right exhaust my goodness those sound like a beast an can get up a go too.

Go look at 370z numbers and used values…

This. It wasn't bad at all they had tons of potential too.

i bet the cobra was a production spec car and the bullet was a ringer.

@@2001chevycamaross No, 5-spd GTs ran very low 14s with some breaking into the 13s. The variance lies with people not knowing how to harness the power or shift properly.

@DrBeef216 not talking about the elapsed time, im talking about the trap speed. No way a car making 55 more hp, 265 vs 320 is only trapping 1 mph more

I ran 14.5 at 98mph with a passenger and spinning off the line

@@DrBeef216That’s funny because I had a 97’ GT with shorty headers, intake, 3.73 gears and exhaust, the best I ever ran was a 14.47?

Exactly what I said

I wonder if Ford cheeched up the test model a little bit

He said that because of what happened with the 99 cobras. The 01s made the advertised numbers.

Then they turn around and were dishonest again about the Mach1, they said 305hp which was bull 💩, 320 same as Cobra but with more torque at a lower rpm that spread over a wider rpm range courtesy of 5.4 intake cams. A year later they said Mach1 has 310hp lmao. Ford was so full of it lol.

😂😂😂

What about the Mustangs from the late 60s and early 70s?

I had an 03 Cobra and to this day it still had the stiffest clutch of any car I've driven.

@@CJColvin Valid point. I should have clarified that I meant Late Model rather than Classic. Although to be fair, I would not necessarily place my old 1968 J-Code (11.71@121mph) in the same category as a Shelby GT500KR or BOSS 429. The former is clearly a pony car built to extremes by yours truly. While the other two are firmly placed in the Muscle Car category. Fun story: My old Mustang cost me four girlfriends, two and half jobs and a _COPIOUS_ amount of money (mostly for gas and performance parts). She garnered roughly 9mpg which is *deplorable* fuel efficiency to say the least. Especially for a high schooler at that time even though gas was approximately .98 cents to $1.25 a gallon. Oh how I miss her dearly! Stay classy my friend.

@BertShackleford Thanks brother I sure will.

A common mod on the 99-04 was to remove the wing if yours had one.

Right? Doesn’t look sturdy but I still love them.

It was not really even two years later. I bought a brand new 2001 cobra in yellow and still have it to this day. I also bought a 2003 yellow cobra a year later. The way they were released, they came out almost exactly a year apart and I had to have one of each. The 2003 was a bad car with many issues and I sold it and got a 2003 corvette Z06 a few months later which I still have today as well. The 2003 cobra's had issues back then which many people forget because they were so fast. Mine pulled to the right because the shock towers were welded in wrong. The shifter hit the dash/console probably from some misalignment. The engine had a ticking sound. The rear end would clunk because the backlash was set wrong. Sometimes it would not go in to first gear. I ordered it with the chrome wheels and they shipped it with the other wheels and owed me them later on which I never got. The 2001 was a much nicer high revving engine than the 2003 cobra but it was not as fast.

That was the 1999 Cobra. The 2001 had all the revisions made when Ford was forced to recall the 1999 models. This is the reason why there were no 2000 Cobras.

That's correct!! The 99 Cobra had the recall!

99’

I had a 2003 GT and one of the first things I did was lowering springs and exhaust. A 2" drop on these was perfect IMO

In 1999 they were not making advertised horsepower. They actually recalled all 99 Cobras on August 6, 1999. Funnily enough, that's the day I was born (nobody asked I know)

@JRC99 lol, yeah but you telling me your age gives me an idea of what mustangs you grew up with. I bought a 2005 GT when they first came out. Rode that thing until 2022.

@@whalehands4779 I wasn't shitting on them, just saying you were correct in your assumption (and my bad if you weren't saying I was shitting on them. I have a hard time with context). I have an '89 GT my grandfather left me and it's one of my favorite things on this planet. I wouldn't mind having an 05-09 GT either. Always liked them.

They only had the Viper..

@@dr.hugog.hackenbush9443 Ture👍

No.

@@wr1ght939 i know your thinking the Corvette....😏 I only said the Mustang bc it's more affordable and at the end of the day we see a whole lot more of them on the roads

I believe so

That was the '99 Cobra, hence no '00 Cobra (excluding the uber rare Cobra R). The '01 supposedly had all the 'upgrades' to make 320hp but it definitely was still overrated.

Yeah, it was 25-30 hp down from that number..10% is alot to over-rate n engine by and people were upset about getting their butts handed to them by Z-28 owners after paying a big premium over the GT price..I am glad it happened because Ford made it up to Cobra fans by building the terminator a couple years later.. Nothing beat this dohc 4.6 engine in the sound department though..easily one of the best sounding V8's ever..😊

@@thetruthspeaker1978 106 mph trap speed will get you low 13's with traction. So it's not over rated

@acerimmer8338 It wasn't overrated at all post-fix. They made around 275 wheel horsepower and around 280 wheel torque. My cousin owned one.

@moejr1974 Gotta love the people with no knowledge of that timeframe being the most vocal ones talking nonsense. A you said, it's trap speed with its weight indicated the power it had. It made plenty of power after the fix, including under the curve. Wasn't the least-bit overrated.

I was just thinking the same... but I'm not sure what they could have done. They responded best to gears and that would have been obvious. Even an 01 cobra trapping 106 is on the very high side of stock. My old roommate had a 02 GT with an intake, upper plenum, 4.30, skinnys on a MT radial with longtubes and some interior weight reduction go 12.80s@105 or so.

No, the Cobra still has all the best equipment you could get in a Mustang of that vintage. Power windows/locks/seats, the top Mach 460 radio, keyless entry, traction control, ABS etc. It's just today even base cars come with a level of equipment that's leagues above what the top trims offered 20+ years ago. You can't get manual windows, manual locks, etc, in a Mustang anymore. Actually, I don't think you could get manual windows/locks in a Mustang back then either even on the base models.

Spoken like a true modern car lover mate.