You can feel free to ask any avid Ford fan in GTP, or ANYWHERE and they'll tell you the same. The SVT cobra is under rated to the extreme, it makes 410-420HP on average, and there's no denying that.
No the mustang will not get beat up as much as the corvette. The corvette is FIBERGLASS, that is why the corvette weights so much less. The mustang will have a nice dent in the side, but that can be popped out. The Corvette on the other hand will have a crack or a hole in the side. I know that the fiberglass is somewhat forgiving, but it'll break and there is no denying that.
ok So now the Corvette has 420HP flywheel (405 base+15 exhaust) which puts it on level ground with the stand, it has a wider wheel base and a wider track. The stock tires in the back which are 18 x 10.5, which is a pretty wide tire. I mean, they're goodyear F1 Supercar tires. I'm pretty sure if they can do a lateral G, they can do as good of a launch as a drag radial.
Your whole that seperates the men from the boys. No it seperates te 50,000 dollar cars from the 35,000 dollar cars. Of course there is going to be a differen,ce and actually at the Circut de La Sarth, there was a 9 second difference between the Cobra And the Z06...Hmm I wonder, maybe that's where the 20,000 dollars went into. 9 seconds...Money well spent right there..As for the z06 competing with cars that cost alot more...So is the Cobra, the cobra is a contender up against the ferrari F355, which is a 127,000 dollar car. If that doesn't impress you, I don't now what will.
As for "lame excuses" the only lame thing i've read in this article is you trying to rule out the stang for having forced induction. Chevy could have EASILY put a blower on their corvette, but they didn't, is that fords fault? No it's not. In the end the Cobra is BY far the better bang for the buck, the fact that it costs 20,000 dollars less than the vette and can hold it's own is more than enough to show that.
Oh and BTW, the Mustang also weights more, because 1 it's not a purpose built sports coupe, it has 4 seats, and 2 it's not made out of fiberglass
And I don't know if you noticed this, but we're talking about NEW cars, we're not talking about old cars that can be fixed up, because everyone knows buying a used car and making it fast is ALOT cheaper than buying a new one, so don't bother keying in with the "LT1" And if a Drag radial can shave off a half of a second explain how it only cut .1 off of the MM&FF's 100% stock time? maybe it's because the Cobra driver from the video didn't utilize the tires full capabilities, did you think of that?
As for your "it's only a drag car" I never said it's only a drag car, not once did I say that, seeing as how i've compared it's BETTER LAP TIMES to the WRX, not 1/4 times. Yeah of course i'm going to MENTION the 1/4 times, seeing as how it's a 4 seater production car for less than 40,000 that does mid 12 second run's, because it SHINES in that department.
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