So....are we now saying that Malaysian cars are superior to German cars? Or that Panoz does not make a nimble car? Does a Shelby Series One really only perform well in a straight line?
How did Ford whup all those Ferarris, Porches, Mercedes, Alfa Romeos, & Audis, on their own European tracks, with a car that only performs well on an oval?
Ford(and, God how I hate Fords), did it with an all-around superior car.....just like Shelby before them; a car both more nimble, and more powerful.
The Shelby Cobra was basically an english sports car with a big block Ford 289 or 427 dropped into it. The proper name was the AC Shelby Cobra. AC was the english sports car. The AC also drew a lot of inspiration from the early Ferraris of the 1950s. The Ford GT 40 had a very strong english involvement in its development too.