What it's like to track a pristine Ford Mustang Cobra R - RoadandTrack.com (blog)
The phrase "race car for the road" has been used to describe everything from the MG TC to the Lamborghini Aventador, so let's call the Cobra R exactly what it was, and is: a road car for the racer. It took five days in January of 1995 to sell all 250 copies of Ford's Mustang-with-5. The Cobra R package and the gas-guzzler tax that came along with it nearly doubled the price of a Mustang Cobra, taking the MSRP from $21,000 to $37,995. To put that in perspective, a new Porsche 911 Carrera was $61,200 that year and a new Accord... By the time he'd managed to save up the cash, the Cobras were all long gone. It sat so long that the original-equipment fuel cell had rotted out, requiring the installation of a new gas tank just to get the car home and into careful storage. Twenty years after Robert's Cobra was built, it still hadn't cracked the 500-mile mark on the odometer. As a former Ford salesman who also campaigned a '95 5-liter Cobra in NASA's Camaro/Mustang Challenge race series, I'd long wanted to get behind the wheel of a 5. 8-liter Cobra R. Source: www.roadandtrack.com
