2017 Camaro 1LE revealed

[Memphis]

I live about 15 minutes from a track that my brothers go to all the time. With cars that run high single digit times.

That same track is connected to a carousel that is part of a road course.

The drag strip as part of the track makes it the second longest straight of any track in America. Or was as a couple of years ago.




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[mustang_guy]

Plenty. Much more demanding on a road course than a straight line. Get to experience more limits than you will ever get to experience in a straight line.

Get back at me when your going around a carousel at 115mph with the wheels slipping sideways and then hook up on an m curve trying not to spin a car out.

There is much more to a car than what can be accomplished in a straight line.




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As someone that used to have their competition license and acquired over 500hrs on various road courses i disagree. You can get back to me when youve driven a car that can wheelie for the 8th mile and keep it from flipping over. There are brake bias controls for the rear needed for keeping in straight all while not flipping. Both types of racing need skill but keeping a 1000hp+ car out of a wall takes more skills then you seem to be aware of or have experience doing.

 

[Memphis]

As someone that used to have their competition license and acquired over 500hrs on various road courses i disagree. You can get back to me when youve driven a car that can wheelie for the 8th mile and keep it from flipping over. There are brake bias controls for the rear needed for keeping in straight withoug flipping.

We can agree to disagree wheelies are fun though




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[Memphis]

As someone that used to have their competition license and acquired over 500hrs on various road courses i disagree. You can get back to me when youve driven a car that can wheelie for the 8th mile and keep it from flipping over. There are brake bias controls for the rear needed for keeping in straight all while not flipping. Both types of racing need skill but keeping a 1000hp+ car out of a wall takes more skills then you seem to be aware of or have experience doing.

I'm not saying it doesn't. But keep in mind there are just as many walls to hit on a road course as there are on a drag strip.

Especially the one I track at.

Heck even the staging lanes are part of the track. One wrong turn and your plowing into a wall.




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[Hawk296]

http://gmauthority.com/blog/2016/02/2017-chevrolet-camaro-1le-expected-to-outperform-the-shelby-gt350/

This thing is going to be a beast. (From a GM oriented website)

 

[Poppacapp]

http://gmauthority.com/blog/2016/02...-1le-expected-to-outperform-the-shelby-gt350/

This thing is going to be a beast. (From a GM oriented website)

Lol! Lets believe the title from a GM mag. :lol:

 

[Kevin08]

The black hood really accentuates the terrible design choice of having a rounded hood front on a squared off car body. Shitty.

 

[Horsey]

What will happen if they make another z28

 

[Twin Turbo]

What will happen if they make another z28

By all accounts, they are......

http://www.mustang6g.com/forums/showthread.php?t=48283

 

[RocketGuy3]

First of all, on the same track on the same day with the same driver, I don't see any way the 1LE has a shot at the GT350 in any trim by almost any performance metric, assuming we're limiting the discussion to manual transmissions (which is only fair IMO)... Unless GM manages to somehow shed a ton of weight, which seems unlikely given that most of those go-fast bits actually add weight.

Second of all... who gives a ****?

It continues to boggle my mind how many supposed car guys like to magazine race. They compare their car-penises based on 0-60 times and live vicariously through lap times they're never going to touch. I mean at any given trim level, we all need to just come to terms with the fact that the Camaro is "faster", and that's fine...

The question is are you really going to feel those extra tenths of a second every day? Will you even feel it on the track? If you really need to feel it, then spend the $5K you saved by buying the Mustang on tires and mods, and you'll have that time back and then some.

But forget all that -- go to the track and learn how to drive whatever you have. The best performance mods are made to the driver, not the car. Don't pick a car based on which one MotorTrend said lapped Thunderhill 1.5 seconds faster. Pick it based on what you enjoy driving, and driving fast. So no, the Camaro is not better just because it has 20 hp more and 100 lbs less. There is way more to a car (yes, even a sports car) than power-to-weight ratio and on-paper specs. There are plenty of other objective and subjective advantages the Mustang has.

/soapbox

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