Hey 07,
What are you trying to do here? Get us off the tranny issue thread? LOL!
OK, here's my opinion...
I feel Ford will make Shelby GT500s through 2009. Why not keep building as long as people want them? Simple rule of business: always leave them wanting more. You stop making them while people still want them, and it opens the door to bringing it back for the 50th anniversary. A perfect opportunity for building more hype, plus today's GT500 owners have had their's long enough that they can justify upgrading to the newer anniversary model. If I was running Ford, that's what I would do.