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X2 When the ZL1 1LE/GT500 CFTP head-to-head ever occurs, even if the outcome has the ZL1 with the faster lap time on a given track, it still will not change the fact that the GT500 will still be a true "GT" car while the ZL1 1LE will have you looking for new kidneys and fillings after driving...

Yep, it does. Referenced the wrong video. Fixed.

MSRP for at least two years. I sold my GT350R for MSRP fifteen months and 18,000 miles from when I purchased it new.

So, in a nutshell, it was almost two years after the ZL1 Camaro got in owners hands before one saw 9’s and here we have a GT500 in the 9’s within a couple of weeks of delivery. Awesome, considering the suspension is not optimized for drag racing only.

Well, with this post alone, you make it abundantly clear that your postings in the thread are only meant to antagonize some of the members of this forum. While I do take the article for what it was, an effort by Motor Trend to compare the road course performance of both the GT500 and the C8...

We are all aware of this, but as I stated previously, the article was focused on how the two cars compared on a road course. But you and others want to try and shift the focus from that area to other metrics that are included with the article.

No, your confusing a strip for a track. It’s called a drag strip, not a drag track. Good effort though.

It's a win in this particular case, because the article based the comparison on the track performance of both cars. It's in the freakin' title of the article. This was not a "best in every performance category" article.

If you are still looking at GT350R's that have an ADM attached, then you are looking at the wring dealership to work with. As I have noted before, I paid $5K over MSRP for my 2016 R in January 2016. Here is a GT350R that is being offered at a discount at a dealer local to me...

Love that track. And it is a pretty technical course and the "Sinkhole" is truly a challenge. I ran there in my GT350R after only having about two weeks seat time and it was a lot of fun, I'd like to see a C8/GT500/ZL1 1LE comparison there.

We have numbers from one track by one magazine, and from that: I’ll say this, the guy is dedicated to his flawed reasoning.

Sure you can. Politicians do it every day and brand purists are even worse. And you'll find nobody here that does not think the GT500 CFTP should be compared directly to the ZL1 1LE. It just happened in this case that Motor Trend chose to compare it with the C8. I'll never get people who...

Yep, people are still in here comparing a heavy, front engine/RWD, Mustang variant to a mid-engine, lightweight Corvette variant. Your powers of observation are incredible!

In effect, you did. As I noted earlier, Shelby American had zero production activity on the SVT-produced vehicles. SVT vehicles were built entirely in-house and on the same assembly lines as any other Mustang variants. To clarify, the "really hot Shelby stuff", as you refer to it, was just...

Doesn't matter how I categorize the metrics. I didn't write the article nor am I looking for people to clink on my links or read my magazine,

So, what you are saying in effect is that Chevrolet needed/needs Lingenfelter and Hennessy to finish their performance cars for them? That is until the C8 came along and GM no longer needed them to compete with other super/hyper cars?

Edge's out does not get as many hits/reads at destroys. Words are chosen for reasons not necessarily reflective of the actual data. And no, here they were comparing GM's flagship performance car with Ford's top trim Mustang. Ford's flagship is still the Ford GT. GM's "first year model year"...

@jimmartin Let's clarify some things about your statements regarding the "Shelby" Mustangs and how they were created to compete with the Corvette. Yes, it is true that Shelby American, under contract to Ford, was tasked with building a car that could compete/win class B Production in the...

Yep, typed in the wrong base number. Should have caught that before I posted. Fixed.

They have to use the trim level of the car that is made available to them. It's not like they get to pick and choose exactly which options a particular test car gets. It's the nature of magazine testing.