ALUSA
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What gets me is that people have been defending pp gt as in regard the cars whole purpose being a street performer. Since day 1 back in 2015, Motortrends Gen 5 1le camaro vs 15 gtpp comparison started that debate. If pp is a street performer than why there is a regular gt? Mustang as it’s foundation always been a street performance car and grand tourer.In summary:
A $65,000 Camaro is faster than a $80,000 Mustang.
A $40,000 Camaro is almost as fast as a $80,000 Mustang (VIR Grand West is 4+ miles around, not 2.5).
A $35,000 Mustang is way slower (~10 seconds at Lightning Lap) than a $40,000 Camaro.
Now do you see why Ford is not providing PP2's for track camparos?
Now we have PP2 and sadly again another package for the streets but nothing more. Back in S197 era, Ford at least called the pp package a track package for the mustang gt. Did it have anything over the current pp packaged gt has? Hell No! Infact the current gtpp can run circles around s197 track pack. However something happened! They introduced the gt350 to milk the track enthusiasts. First generation didn’t have necessary coolers and Ford defended the car pointing the regular version was also a street performer and people have to option to track package or go with the R version. They fixed that by making tp base on the new gt350’s.
So long story short, Ford has no intention on bringing a track focused regular gt to the market unless the gt350 production is done for. It doesn’t matter what the competition offers. Their sales are good and they are counting Benjamins thanks to the loyal Ford customers. Now if the sales were bad then it would be a different story!
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