The Ultimate Sleeper

It is said that when all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.

But if you have a big enough hammer, your problems tend to vanish quickly.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you, that hammer.


What is currently bombarding your eyeballs with testosterone and awesomeness is the brand spanking new Shelby Cobra 1000, freshly released for the 25th Anniversary of Carroll Shelby's tuning company.

"Looks like a Shelby GT500 with some shiny bits", you're probably saying to yourself, "What's so special about this hammer?"

Well, the street version of this monster is good for....are you ready?

950 Horsepower.

I will say it again for those of you who are on drugs.

950 HORSEPOWER.

Now, if you are like my wife and have no idea what that means in relation to anything else, I'll lay it out for you.

The 2012 Shelby Cobra GT500, apon which this car is based, is good for 550 horsepower. That means that this is 400 horsepower more powerful (if you want, you could also say it is as powerful as a GT500 and a pair of VW GTIs put together).

From another point of view, compared to the Bugatti Veyron, which is right now the 3rd fastest car in the world, the Shelby Cobra 1000 has 51 fewer horses.

And it's not going to be just fast in a straight line, either. Shelby and his team also upgraded the suspension. (Read about it here in Motor Trend).

"But Iron!", you say, "I am in need of more horsepower, and I'm also quite possibly deranged. I need a track car as bonkers as I am! Whatever am I to do?"

Well, cease wringing your hands in despair, dear reader, because they are coming out with a track only version of the Shelby 1000, which is good for 1100 horsepower (in other words, it's as strong as the 1000 plus my family Mazda5).

Now, here's the downside: Shelby and Co. are only making 100 of both models. Combined.

And there's also the price. Expect to pay upwards of $200,000.

Then again, the Veyron costs $300,000 more, and nobody in their right mind is going to want to get into a drag race with you because they KNOW they can't win.


With this, you won't have that worry.