New 2015 mustang looks like a aston martin wannabe

[Rich46yo]

Sweet ride 

Here's mine!
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Yeah they are very nice cars tho had I the cash to buy a new Sunday car I think it would be the Mustang. I had a '66 and later a new '85 GT. But no question the Camaro is a beauty. Unfortunately my Sunday car cash just went to my only child but I think He'll appreciate the auto more then I would. Its his first car and 9,000 miles on it is nothing. They had one just like yours on the lot, "I personally prefer silver" but he wanted a red one so bad. It was just meant to be.

Yaknow for those of us who grew up during "the muscle age" its really amazing the HP AND mileage out of these new engines. To think how you can walk in and buy new American made muscle with 400+ HP for $30 to $50 G AND still get the mileage you do is just amazing. Hell even the V6's are well over 300 HP.

If I could I'd buy a Jet Black 2014 Pony GT. 420 HP is an awful lot of power and torque for an off the showroom floor standard Pony car.

[CAP1]

Yeah they are very nice cars tho had I the cash to buy a new Sunday car I think it would be the Mustang. I had a '66 and later a new '85 GT. But no question the Camaro is a beauty. Unfortunately my Sunday car cash just went to my only child but I think He'll appreciate the auto more then I would. Its his first car and 9,000 miles on it is nothing. They had one just like yours on the lot, "I personally prefer silver" but he wanted a red one so bad. It was just meant to be.

Yaknow for those of us who grew up during "the muscle age" its really amazing the HP AND mileage out of these new engines. To think how you can walk in and buy new American made muscle with 400+ HP for $30 to $50 G AND still get the mileage you do is just amazing. Hell even the V6's are well over 300 HP.

If I could I'd buy a Jet Black 2014 Pony GT. 420 HP is an awful lot of power and torque for an off the showroom floor standard Pony car.

 the key's not necessarily the horsepower....but how/when it's made/used. way back when, we needed to get our old v8's to redline or close to it to really use/feel the power. now, these things give it to you right off idle.

[skorpx1]

Bumping this thread but for good reason.

the c7 will eat the shelby for lunch.

Chevy fans look away now.



C7 Stingray gets the GT500 at the launch, but the GT500 beats it in longer runs. Stingray would only be good for the 1/4 mile IMO, after that the GT500 would win.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwkQVY_1jpw

[AAJagerX]

Bumping this thread but for good reason.


Chevy fans look away now.



C7 Stingray gets the GT500 at the launch, but the GT500 beats it in longer runs. Stingray would only be good for the 1/4 mile IMO, after that the GT500 would win.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwkQVY_1jpw

Until you have to turn...

I've driven both of them quite a bit, and the Stingray BY FAR is the more fun car to drive. 

[morfiend]

dam straight. i'm too old to change now, lololol. v8's the ONLY way for me to fly.    i suspect that if they've worked out the turbo as well as volvo, or audi, that even at 3400# that thing will be a screamer. at 2400#, even i'd consider a 4 banger. 

  Cap,the only way I would consider a V8 is if I could get an all wheel drive package!   Something like the Taurus persuit cars that ford made for the cops,now if I could find a nice used 1 of those......



   

[Grayeagle]

Kinda tickles me the way people compare GT500 (umm ..not a base model Mustang) to the base model Vette (which the Stingray is)

Run the numbers of the new GT500 next to the new Z06 ..hmmm?
(and Ford gonna need a bit of help if GM decides to upgrade the ZR Vette)

Or the base 5.0 Mustang with the Stingray ..hmm?

Apples an Oranges just do not compare.

Mustang competition is the Camaro or Challenger ..all of 'em are a blast to drive.
All of 'em are orders of magnitude better than the 'muscle car' era of late 60's early '70's.
I remember my '67 HEMI GTX 4-gear all too well.
Wheel wells too small for what the Hemi could put down.
Stop? ..plan ahead.
Mileage? 4mpg avg on any cruise nite, far less if you punched it.
Granted ..'rated' hp was 425 *cough* ..to help with insurance costs by the factory.
That was at 4200rpm. She'd go 7k and pull hard all the way there.
Dick Landy took one out of the box and it dyno'd at 650hp and it peaked far beyond 4200rpm
..only addition from stock were the headers the dyno used.
Yes ..the base, hydraulic lifter street 426 Hemi.

As for factory race cars .. Drag Pak Challenger with that V-10 motor does ok I hear
.. along with the COPO Camaro factory race car.
Ford is not the only game in town -evil grin-

If I could I'd be runnin a Drag Pak Challenger every Sunday -evil grin-

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=drag+pack+challenger&qpvt=drag+pack+challenger&FORM=VDRE#view=detail&mid=727404616D317891C250727404616D317891C250

-Frank aka GE

[CAP1]

Kinda tickles me the way people compare GT500 (umm ..not a base model Mustang) to the base model Vette (which the Stingray is)

Run the numbers of the new GT500 next to the new Z06 ..hmmm?
(and Ford gonna need a bit of help if GM decides to upgrade the ZR Vette)

Or the base 5.0 Mustang with the Stingray ..hmm?

Apples an Oranges just do not compare.

Mustang competition is the Camaro or Challenger ..all of 'em are a blast to drive.
All of 'em are orders of magnitude better than the 'muscle car' era of late 60's early '70's.
I remember my '67 HEMI GTX 4-gear all too well.
Wheel wells too small for what the Hemi could put down.
Stop? ..plan ahead.
Mileage? 4mpg avg on any cruise nite, far less if you punched it.
Granted ..'rated' hp was 425 *cough* ..to help with insurance costs by the factory.
That was at 4200rpm. She'd go 7k and pull hard all the way there.
Dick Landy took one out of the box and it dyno'd at 650hp and it peaked far beyond 4200rpm
..only addition from stock were the headers the dyno used.
Yes ..the base, hydraulic lifter street 426 Hemi.

As for factory race cars .. Drag Pak Challenger with that V-10 motor does ok I hear
.. along with the COPO Camaro factory race car.
Ford is not the only game in town -evil grin-

If I could I'd be runnin a Drag Pak Challenger every Sunday -evil grin-

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=drag+pack+challenger&qpvt=drag+pack+challenger&FORM=VDRE#view=detail&mid=727404616D317891C250727404616D317891C250

-Frank aka GE

 i'm innocent of that lopsided comparison.

[Grayeagle]

I know, Cap .. we and some others 'get it' .. we have our brands that we like, and know that they are all a blast to drive.

It always tickles me when someone comes along and compares a halo car model to a base Vette.
Makes me think Vette got it right ..and then you step into a Z model and it just gets crazy from there.

On a run to Crater Lake out in the desert here in AZ one of our club's Z06 guys had his right front tire start losing pressure.
Seems at 205mph the bead was separating from the rim. It was discovered to have some broken cords in the bead due to improper installation.

We had a local Porsche club with us that day .. they were ..well .. I could still see a couple of them in my rear view mirror, but I lost them totally before reaching the lake.
And I was only cruising 150 or so.

Nothin like blastin down country roads that are straight as an arrow for 20miles+ early on a Saturday morning, out in the middle of nowhere
With friends


Taken by a friend in his red Vette ..at 120mph or so, Kathy was asleep in passenger seat ..great day for a drive

-Frank aka GE

[skorpx1]

I know, Cap .. we and some others 'get it' .. we have our brands that we like, and know that they are all a blast to drive.

It always tickles me when someone comes along and compares a halo car model to a base Vette.
Makes me think Vette got it right ..and then you step into a Z model and it just gets crazy from there.

On a run to Crater Lake out in the desert here in AZ one of our club's Z06 guys had his right front tire start losing pressure.
Seems at 205mph the bead was separating from the rim. It was discovered to have some broken cords in the bead due to improper installation.

We had a local Porsche club with us that day .. they were ..well .. I could still see a couple of them in my rear view mirror, but I lost them totally before reaching the lake.
And I was only cruising 150 or so.

Nothin like blastin down country roads that are straight as an arrow for 20miles+ early on a Saturday morning, out in the middle of nowhere
With friends


Taken by a friend in his red Vette ..at 120mph or so, Kathy was asleep in passenger seat ..great day for a drive

-Frank aka GE

Porsche isn't as great as everyone says it is, Vette's usually blow them out of the water most of the time and on top of that, they don't cost 80K+

They're all a bunch of squished VW Beetles anyways.


(Sorry Porsche fans )


Still, I would rather have a Viper SRT10 ACR. Crazy beast does 210 straight from the factory and holds #6 on the top 100 times for the Nurburgring/Nordschleife, something that GM has yet to do. GM and Ford hasn't had a top 10 spot and probably wont get one for a while.

[GScholz]

Porsche vs Vette... The age-old grudge match.

Chris took both the C7 and the Carrera S out on a track earlier this year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MPSr7ZWnYQ


The price difference is huge, but then you can't really compare the Corvette to a quality product like the Porsche. The Corvette is a trailer park ports car with a Volkswagen price tag, and made from melted down plastic food trays and other rubbish.

[CAP1]

looks like skorp and sholz are tryin' to take this into the gutter, lolololol

[TheCrazyOrange]

Love how scorp's argument basically boils down to "look, the Viper's engine has an extra 2.2 liters of displacement!"

I mean yeah, the SRT is fast, but that V10 is also a big beast.

[AAJagerX]

Porsche vs Vette... The age-old grudge match.

Chris took both the C7 and the Carrera S out on a track earlier this year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MPSr7ZWnYQ


The price difference is huge, but then you can't really compare the Corvette to a quality product like the Porsche. The Corvette is a trailer park ports car with a Volkswagen price tag, and made from melted down plastic food trays and other rubbish.

Yep, there's always one.