So I can already tell I'm gonna catch some fire under my @$$ for this comment, but here goes...
I hate to say it, but in my OPINION the Shelby Dakota is no more appealing to me than an average Dak (we have three 92's sitting in my front yard, all with the 3.9L V6). And don't get me wrong, I love the Dakota.
So Shelby took a truck, chopped the roof off and snazzed it up, meanwhile completely ignoring any kind of performance potential for the V6. Oh, and on some models, they put a bone stock 318 in the truck only a few years before Chrysler decided to do the same thing.
Big... Whoop...