????我終于能告訴大家真相了：幾周前，賽車/大馬力車/肌肉車/跑車之王卡羅爾?謝爾比秘密邀請(qǐng)我前去試駕他最新、最酷的心愛之作——謝爾比GT1000。感謝卡羅爾，在這輛車即將亮相紐約車展（the New York Auto Show）（4月4日對(duì)媒體開放）之前，他僅邀請(qǐng)了四位記者前去探秘，我有幸獲得邀請(qǐng)，得以在拉斯維加斯的炎熱天氣中體驗(yàn)這輛車的氣魄與精髓。并且，我是唯一一位獲準(zhǔn)首先發(fā)表該車體驗(yàn)的記者。向你致謝，卡羅爾！

????謝爾比如今已是89歲高齡。他一向知道如何顛覆汽車界。自從20世紀(jì)50年代投身國(guó)際賽事以來(lái)，這一直是他的專長(zhǎng)。過(guò)去幾十年間，他一直致力于為熱衷高性能汽車的仰慕者開發(fā)功能強(qiáng)悍的各款車型。今年是Shelby American汽車公司成立50周年。一直以來(lái)，這家位于拉斯維加斯的公司總能將他的設(shè)想變成動(dòng)力澎湃的超跑。現(xiàn)在，他與自己的團(tuán)隊(duì)推出了公司有史以來(lái)最為大膽、而且能合法上路的非凡座駕：擁有1,000匹馬力的謝爾比版的福特（Ford）GT500野馬（Mustang），實(shí)際上這款車本已足夠出色。目前這個(gè)版本零售價(jià)為149,995美元起。

????這款杰出之作不僅把謝爾比的理念變成了現(xiàn)實(shí)，還成功地投產(chǎn)上市（請(qǐng)觀看視頻，獲得更深刻的體驗(yàn)）。大眾汽車集團(tuán)（Volkswagen Group）的費(fèi)迪南?皮耶一手打造了價(jià)值240萬(wàn)美元的工程奇跡——“貼地飛行”的布加迪威龍（Bugatti Veyron），這一成就前無(wú)古人后無(wú)來(lái)者。除了他，還有誰(shuí)會(huì)試圖把1000匹馬力的性能跑車推向市場(chǎng)，并真正交付到客戶手中，成為他們縱橫馳騁的座駕？這個(gè)人非謝爾比莫屬。20世紀(jì)60年代，謝爾比曾在勒芒大勝法拉利（Ferrari）；然而此后，他們?cè)僖矝]有贏得過(guò)超級(jí)拉力賽。而就實(shí)際生產(chǎn)而言，法拉利、蘭博基尼（Lamborghini）、保時(shí)捷（Porsche）、奧迪（Audi）和賓利（Bentley）這些大牌無(wú)一推出過(guò)1,000匹馬力的合法跑車。如果它們真要生產(chǎn)，可能會(huì)推出一輛更精致的座駕，但在這場(chǎng)競(jìng)賽中，謝爾比無(wú)疑再次以他的聰明才智擊敗了一眾對(duì)手。人們一定會(huì)愛上這位世界冠軍、一位曾做過(guò)雙重內(nèi)臟移植而幸存下來(lái)的八旬老者，同時(shí)也是我的摯友推出的心血之作。飛馳吧，謝爾比。一如既往地全速前進(jìn)，直到永遠(yuǎn)！

????譯者：清遠(yuǎn)

????Finally I can tell you the truth: Racing/hotrod/muscle car/sports car czar Carroll Shelby secretly invited me a few weeks ago to test-drive his latest and greatest beast, the Shelby GT1000. I was one of only four journalists to be invited ahead of the car's unveiling at the New York Auto Show (opening to media April 4) to experience its guts and soul in the heat of the Vegas desert, and the only one to be given the nod to first post impressions, thanks to Carroll himself. One of your black hats off to you, Carroll.

????Shelby, 89, has always known how to upend the automotive world; it's been his peculiar specialty since he began internationally racing in the '50s. He has spent the intervening decades bringing only minimally tamed cars to an adoring, adrenaline-addicted public. This year -- the 50th anniversary for Shelby American (the Las Vegas-based company that has long translated his visions into uproarious sheet metal) -- the man and his company are making their most audacious and yet street-legal steed yet: the 1,000 horsepower Shelbyized version of Ford's (F) already excellent GT500 Mustang, with a retail price tag starting at $149,995.

????Here are my favorite Shelby qualities brought not only to life but to market (watch the video to viscerally understand). Who, besides Volkswagen Group's Ferdinand Piech, with his never-to-be-repeated $2.4M Bugatti Veyron flight of engineering fancy, would attempt to put 1,000 hp into the marketplace—and into real people's hands—except Shelby? Shelby felled Ferrari in the '60s at Le Mans; they have not won the grand endurance race since. On the production side, none of the likes of Ferrari, Lamborghini, Porsche, Audi or Bentley are putting 1,000 legal horses to the ground. If they do, they might make a more refined ride, but Shelby's once again done more than just okay in outsmarting the competition. Gotta love that from a world champion, an octogenarian double organ transplant survivor, and a good friend. You go, Shelby. Like hell! As you always have and always will.