Canadian Mustang Owners Club - Ford Mustang Forums - 2011 Mustangs Have Arrived At Your Dealer!

The 2011 Mustangs and Shelby GT-500’s started production a little over a month ago and are now at your local Ford dealer to see, feel and touch. We are no longer waiting for the chance to get out to drive one and bring one home tonight.

The new 300+hp 3.7 liter standard Mustang is in good supply with a reasonably good selection across the dozen dealers we surveyed. Most of the cars are fully optioned and six-speed manuals are of course harder to find.

The 2011 Mustang GT with the rip-snorting 5.0 V8 is still a rare bird on dealer lots as of this week due to pent up demand. Much of the first wave of production has gone to customers who ordered their cars months ago and have been waiting for them to be delivered. In fact only one of the twelve dealerships we surveyed even had one in stock and it was an automatic transmission equipped car.

The top dog 2011 Shelby GT-500 is in plentiful stock too. Five of the twelve dealers we surveyed had one in stock. All of them were equipped with the new SVT Performance package which includes 19″ front and 20″ rear wheels along with a number of other performance and visual upgrades. It would appear that most dealerships are opting for the full loaded GT-500’s. And don’t look for anything special in the color department as of today. Dealers for the most part only have silver, red and black in stock.

The great news is that it does not appear the dealers are gouging on the new 5.0 liter Mustang GT or aluminum block GT-500. We took a trip into Ebay and saw nearly a dozen 2011 GT-500’s listed for sale with Buy It Now pricing at or just slightly above MSRP. It is nothing like the $10,000 – 30,000 mark ups we saw with the 2007. The economy surely plays a part in the more than fair pricing today.

So if you have been waiting for the new 2011 Mustangs, rejoice. Grab your best friend and head out to the dealer tonight and make a date of it. Eat first in case you end up hanging out at the dealer longer than you should. Oh, and bring a copy of your pay stubs just in case.