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- 2003 Cobra: 52.5 inches tall - 2013 Boss302: 55.1 inches tall - 2015 Mustang GT: 54.4 inches tall.

Now slip it next to a Fox. Here are two of ours: No need to wonder why these don't weigh under 3000 pounds anymore.

A nice and comprehensive effort by Dodge... except it's by far the largest and heaviest of the pony cars.. if you can even call a 4400 pound coupe that. And it's got the skinniest tires... only 275s all around for all this power and weight. It'll light them up easily. It's not a racetrack car...

Except there won't be an old-school type of surge with the 2.3EB. EBs use a much smaller turbo than normal and have very little lag. It will be making almost peak and constant torque at just 1700 RPM all the way to 5000+ RPM... something the V-6 can't even come close to. Remember that we're...

The attraction of the EcoBoost motor is exactly what you suggest: the way the motor makes the power and the driving dynamics of a boosted motor. Off-boost fuel economy, and on-boost instant torque and power. That's personality. The 3.7 was a good motor, but the market is changing away from...

That's a big accusation against the company that pays your bills. The EcoBoost 2.3 makes much more torque than the V-6, and maintains it across a far wider range. And more HP. And it weighs less. What's not to like?

Perhaps so. It meant something in 1964 and 1965... the racing record was good, but the build quality wasn't. Soon after it was purely a Ford show. But more recently he sued the Shelby Club, whose members (I was a member) were dedicated to him, and then he failed to submit the charity money he...

This is just a waste of time.. it doesn't even match up with the prototype that we've all seen. One which doesn't have the useless intake before the rear wheels (always a dumb feature of Mustangs) but does have the exhaust behind the front wheels (of little value given the structure behind it)...

Excellent point - and we would have to think that GM set out to make it lighter... but loaded as it is with LCD screens, (far) better seats, and options it ended up heavier. It'll be very interesting to see what the S550 weighs, apples-to-apples.

Interesting article in Automotive iQ - an industry web magazine. An analysis of the Mercedes W205 platform shows a weight saving of 150 pounds using a hybrid of aluminum and steel alloys. http://www.automotive-iq.com/doors/columns/is-the-industry-embracing-the-aluminium-revolution/ The W205...

Not at all.... it's a heckuva bargain and prices are very very good right now. But a bigger question is what you need the car for - if it's track events, for example, the Z06 will take you far further than a Mustang. It's a complete car, with every single thing needed and none that aren't -...

Right on. The SVO was the top of the line in every measure from performance to handling to ergonomics. It was a complete car, with attention paid to every detail. And it was positioned and priced well above the lowly GT, which was saddled with the miserable TRX tires, 4-bolt rims, small front...

This topic was covered ad nauseam months ago, and well into last year. The chassis started in CAD as the S197 and evolved to the S550. Marketing may call it "all new" - as new model years with little change are often referred to - but in reality that's where it came from. I've seen the cars next...

It may look smaller, but it isn't. The S550 is larger over the S197. This again comes down to styling - and also to reusing the same platform.

Yes I'm also scratching my head on that Hurican review. But beggers (me) can't be choosers so I'd happily take one anyway ;-) I recently met Valentino Balboni so now I am dreaming of a Lambo. Yup, bad news on the 918... sounds pretty useless for a track-oriented hobbyist like ourselves. Given...

It's very clear that Head2Head got it's brownie points with GM for making this video. This is how this business is run... when a new car is put out, and somebody scores a test vehicle, it had damn well better win everything or there won't be any more test vehicles released so easily. And the...

I've got a similar picture of a Fox body Mustang next to an SN95, and the Fox looks so much smaller because of the xtra-lower trunk (hatch) line. But in reality it's not much smaller at all. Now turn the S550 upside down and find the same dimples in the same front frame rails, the same jacking...

Lets hope so... and apparently (on purpose) it's stock internally. Of course it's also got dry sump and a very different intake, exhaust, turbos, and tuning.

The Caddy TT V-6 as it stands in the CTS Vspec (since we don't know what changes to make it into a ATS-V), has some interesting architectural advantages over the EB 3.5, particularly in a larger volume intake and with 2 cooling cores (Ford has one). I hope that it's a benchmark target for Ford...

The 3- and 4-series have other attributes to put it over the Mustang in some minds, including quality, as well as the image and the resale value. I'm not personally advocating them, just looking at it from an industry analyst point of view. I'd be happier in the right Mustang, especially now...