03-12-2009, 07:55 AM
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Originally Posted by rednek01
and as far as the solid axle comments give me a break!!!
Granted a IRS set up will always out perform given the engineering behind it, but look at some track cars in say the American Iron league and other racing areas and tell me the solid rear axle is still terrible, I guarantee you will be surprised just how well a solid axle can perform given the right mods
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American Iron League??? steel workers or huh?? No I'm not surprised a solid rear axle isn't terrible...... but the point is this is a comparo and here are two cars, and for similar money (base+some option), one is far more compromised in it's design, producing far less capable on road behavior.
Who knows if the goal was to stay 'retro' or because Ford just cheaped out the car, but the bottom line is it's a compromised design no matter how fast it goes 0-60 or 0-100mph, when it comes to actually having to drive the car on other than a straight road (dragway), the difference is readily apparent, or so the story says.
Obviously the 'tang is what it is, with big discounts, a fairly decent wallet-friendly performance everyman's car.....and all optioned up or modded 3 ways from Sunday by a race shop, an original muscle car. Nevertheless it can't escape it's designers builtin DNA, which limits it's ultimate potential at birth....and the story readily shows that in so many ways.
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