So C&D showed you can do 188 mph in a stock 2013 GT500. 208 mph is 22% more drag (driven by the square of the speed), a bit of Googling suggests that a stock GT500 is 565 at the wheels and you can get it up to 680-ish with intake, exhaust, and a pulley. That's about 20% more power, so I could easily believe that a 2011 GT350 with a motor swap and some easy mods is capable of doing 208.
The Texas mile thing is a drag race, and there's a big difference between max speed in a drag race and overall top speed. I think at Bonneville you get like 3 miles of acceleration zone before the measured mile?
As far as measurement goes, I suspect they used a helicopter, a marked road, and a stopwatch. And yeah, if the stretch of marked road is too short, then that's going to have a lot of error in it.
griffin729 wrote:
KyAllroad wrote:
Suppose we take this at it's face value and a 19 year old kid actually has a Mustang capable of 208 MPH. How much do you have to spend to pull that kind of speed in a late model Mustang, $50,000?
What kind of affluenza douche nozzle parents provide a CHILD with enough cash to behave like this?
Well speaking of douche nozzle parents spending way too much on kids cars, I live in West Lafayette, IN home to Purdue. Around town here there's a 458, an MP4-12c, several 911 Turbos, something like 6 GT-Rs, 5 Maseratis, an Exige, an Elise, and a butt load of modified STis. Admittedly one of the Maserati has a faculty parking pass, and the Exige I don't think is a student's either. But still.
There was a lot of that where I went to school as well. Nothing as ostentatious as Ferraris and McLarens that I can recall, but brand new Caymans, S4s, M3s, ect. One kid in particular that stands out was the guy that drove the GT-R. Despite awd, that's clearly not the most practical winter car in the northeast, so he had to have a winter beater as well - a brand new Cayenne Turbo S.
As for the Mustang kid, I could buy 208. Unlikely perhaps, and quite possibly inflated by measurement error, but still highly plausible.
docwyte wrote:
I went to college from '88-'92. There was a kid in my class that not only had a cherry '65 GTO convertible 4 speed, but also had a Greenway corvette. His dad had a testarossa.
In high school many of my classmates would get brand new cars when they turned 16. Brand new BMW 325is, Porsche 944, Alfa Romeo GTV6, etc, etc. If you got a Civic or a Rabbit that was slumming it.
I got my grandma's old Mercury Monarch. 
What is a greenway corvette?
Callaway?
Whoops. Old age! Yeah, Greenwood. And yeah, ouch.
