2011 Mustang 5.0 Turbo

shadoquad

Love the 5.0 Mustang. It's a fire breathing beast.

I love the Z for similar reasons, and it's my beast.

This is a pretty great time to be alive if you're a car enthusiast. The only thing that sucks is how fat/bloated some of the muscle cars are. But every segment right now has performance models.

Red370

I agree, cant someone make a high horsepower car nowadays and keep the weight around 3200 lbs? doesnt seem like that would be a hard mission to accomplish..

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m4a1mustang

Well, the Mustang is a light car for it's size. It's only a couple hundred lbs heavier than a Touring/Sport 370Z.

Compare it to cars in it's class and it's a true lightweight. The Camaro comes in around 3800lbs and the Challenger tips the scales at over 4000.

To put things into perspective, a Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano weighs about 3800 lbs!

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shadoquad

Oh, granted that the Stang is a notable exception. As is the Z imo.

My problem with larger vehicles is the idea that moar wait = saif tea. While it's true that the bigger car wins in a collision (thank you physics), it is also true that a lighter vehicle tends to be more maneuverable, easier to stop/accelerate, and therefore more likely to avoid the accident in the first place (the part of physics that NHTSA guys skimmed). That's the crux of my usual rant.

shadoquad

continued rant:

Plus the continuous bloating gives diminishing returns. Don't buy a 5-star rated minivan from 1997 and expect it to be safe. If it smacks into the same minivan from 2005, it's the accordion, while the 2005 model which is much heavier survives less scathed.

But this is all drifting off topic.

LiquidZ

That usually entails 2 seat sport cars (Corvette, Z), high dollar sports cars made with exotic materials, or piddly 4 bangers.

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m4a1mustang

Truth. Two seaters fall in that low 3k lb zone.

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