Mustang does it.
On the plus side, some people at Ford have finally blabbed what alot of the internets have known forever, and next year the Mustang GT gets a new 5.0L 400hp V8. With a 300+ weight advantage, the Mustang should be significantly faster than both the Camaro and the Challenger.
Gentlemen,
This month's Motor Trend magazine does a fairly detailed comparison between the Camaro, the Challenger, and the Mustang. Giving up 111 hp to the Camaro, the Mustang is only 2/10 of a second slower zero to 60 and 0.5 seconds slower in the quarter mile. The track pack equipped Mustang with 19 inch wheels handled significantly better than either of those competitors boasting higher lateral cornering forces, and faster figure 8 and slalom times. The weight advantage of the Mustang is huge. Adding almost 100 hp to Ford's already competitive pony car will give it class dominating performance.
My 2007 Mustang GT (Shelby GT) is equipped with a Whipple supercharger giving it 500 hp. It's power to weight ratio and great handling make it an absolute giant killer. Once a Ford racing 600 hp Whipple supercharger kit is added to next year's 5.0L Track Pack equipped Mustang GT, its performance will annihilate almost everything on the road including the GT500.
The horsepower of my GT500 is close to the horsepower of my Shelby GT, but the much better weight distribution of the Mustang (Shelby) GT makes it much easier to get the power to the ground.
Before the fuel economy Nazis extinguish the amazing muscle cars we enjoy today, every hard-core auto enthusiast needs to put one more in their garage to savor from time to time when he tires of driving his government mandated turbo/econo-boost/hybrid to a socialized medical appointment.
There is seldom anything wrong with the man's attitude that 500+ horsepower won't remedy.
Chip
