exige s vs mustang gt500

[Slicks]

There is one gen Corvette that is faster in stock trim. There are 5 that are not. That's an 85% chance of meeting a car you have a good chance of beating.

My logic is undeniable.

The C5 Z06, and C4 ZR1 would also beat it, but your right.

[Quiggs]

Blah blah blah...

[The_Canuck]

There is one gen Corvette that is faster in stock trim. There are 5 that are not. That's an 85% chance of meeting a car you have a good chance of beating.

My logic is undeniable.

You forgot the countless modified Corvettes out there...

Your logic is grade 7 math.

[Ferrer]

Daddy's kid could also stall the Corvette if it's a manual...

[Slicks]

Daddy's kid could also stall the Corvette if it's a manual...

Youd have to be a complete newb to manuals to stall a vette. Theres just too much power down low, youd have to almost be trying to stall one. Heh, Ive started in 4th(takes me to 130+mph) before in my car (400lbs more than a vette) with very little bogging.

[Quiggs]

You forgot the countless modified Corvettes out there...

Your logic is grade 7 math.

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[jcp123]

Youd have to be a complete newb to manuals to stall a vette. Theres just too much power down low, youd have to almost be trying to stall one. Heh, Ive started in 4th(takes me to 130+mph) before in my car (400lbs more than a vette) with very little bogging.

Depends. Newer V8's don't have the sheer oomph down low of the older, more low-rev oriented ones. Had a '66 Mustang with 289 and a 4-speed, it would pull from 700-800rpm and not really even show signs of lugging except sometimes in 4th. Unfortunately, most modern V8's lug under 1100rpm or so regardless of the gear.

[Slicks]

Depends. Newer V8's don't have the sheer oomph down low of the older, more low-rev oriented ones. Had a '66 Mustang with 289 and a 4-speed, it would pull from 700-800rpm and not really even show signs of lugging except sometimes in 4th. Unfortunately, most modern V8's lug under 1100rpm or so regardless of the gear.

What modern v8s have you been in? After I bought my T/A I went cruising around (no surprise) and was messing around. In a subdivision I put it in 6th just to see if it would stall (this is about 20-25mph) it sat at roughly 450RPMs (thats UNDER indle! 750 is idle) no foot on the gas, the car was accelerating, trying to get to idle!
And 1100RPMS is a launch RPM when dragracing for me!

[jcp123]

Haven't had the pleasure of an LS/1. I am (pleasantly) surprised it performed that well, actually, I wish more of them were up to that task. I've driven a 2003 Stang GT, wasn't all that impressive either from a pure low-rev standpoint or in acceleration in general under 2500. Ridden in a 5.0 Mustang (an '87 I believe, it know for sure was after '87 when it got the aero front fascia and Mass Air injection) and it was okay, better than the 4.6 by a long shot, but again nothing spectacular in the pure off-idle grunt department from what I could tell. Hard to say since I wasn't driving.

With automatic, I've been in a '92 Bronco with 5.0l, '01 Ram 1500 with 318, '05 Ford F-150 SCrew 4.6, and '99 Dodge Ram Wagon with 360. Granted, these are all heavy vehicles, but none really were off-idle grunt masters and tended to lug under 1300rpm if you managed to catch the tranny with its pants down letting them run that low. You could feel the powerband didn't start to kick in until about 1600 or so for the Bronco, and about 2000-2200 for the others. The Dodges were especially bad that way, they don't seem to even enjoy running under 1800-2000rpm and seem to need more go-pedal input in normal driving than the Fords.

[LandQuail]

Just thought I'd say, for the record: "There ain't no way that little you-row-peen car, wit that little sewin' machine motor could keep up with a GT five-hunnert."

Thank you.

[The_Canuck]

Exactly,

[Turbo.Jenkens]

How is the new GT 500 a disgrace?

It weighs more than my truck!!!

[taz_rocks_miami]

It weighs more than my truck!!!

Even so, it'll blow the doors off your truck.

[Slicks]

It weighs more than my truck!!!

So does the M5, does that make it a shit car?

[jcp123]

Well, he has a point. It has gotten a ways away from its roots. The original, as conceived by Lee Iacocca himself, was a secretary's car, basically an econobox with hot styling and small V8 options and weighed in at about 2500lbs. For perspective, its equivalent today would probably be something along the lines of a Honda Civic with a body that looks like an S2000.

Not that weight is a bad thing - the types of vehicles I prefer admittedly tend to be porkers, weighing 4500lbs or more - but it does seem a little out of character for a vehicle like the Mustang.