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cleveland said:But it isnt true. American cars are not designed to go 55.
-Dan
cleveland said:But it isnt true. American cars are not designed to go 55.
-Dan
Uber M3 said:Sorry if you don't care for my sig... But if you really think about it. It's true. German cars are built for the Autobahn. And just realize, just because I prefer BMWs doesn't mean I don't like Americans. If I wanted a full on 1/4 mile car I would have bought American.
Brisk281GT said:Does anyone else notice that the 05 Mustang has been pounding the crap out of all the Euro cars on the the Grand-Am Cup circuit???
I know the Mustang has the 5.0 Cammer engine in it but the BMW's and Porsche's aren't stock either.
http://www.grandamerican.com/CONTENT/Docs/PDF/2005/mosport Cup Mfg Points.pdf
Not "track cars" my butt
So much for cars "built" for the Autobahn
A list of the competitors if you are not familiar:
http://www.grandamerican.com/CONTENT/Docs/PDF/2005/GAcupCarNo_20050112.pdf
cleveland said:You got a straight line shooter for about 11 seconds untill the bottom end blows.
-Dan
Szlachcic said:I think everyone is making this thread get way out of hand. All of these comments attacking his sig and saying how he is like Excon just b/c he likes BMWs is silly. He never once said anything derogatory (at least I didn't see anything) about our stangs and was simply asking how an 05 M3 and a 05 Mustang GT stacked up. Like someone said before, it would basically be a drivers race with a slight edge to the M3. But, like Uber M3 said, M3s are not really made for the 1/4th mile and are more of a road course car, where they clearly excel. I would love to have a M3 if I had the money, but alas I don't and I am stuck with my fun-as-hell Mustang .
05Stangster said:The second the word "ExCon" pops up - DocGTO is there to add a few comments? What's up Doc! Do you have the word "ExCon" rigged so it sends you an email if it pops up on the forum? Or is this by chance? Just kidding. Although I completey agree with your comment on the BMW's - great under warranty - but when it's time to fix things after that - big $$$.
The M3 is a full production vehicle and although M is BMW motorsports divsision its still the same company. It's not a limited run special. It more BMW's Corvette, it just happens to look like the cheaper and far less exciting 3 series, but then thats just Germany's way.vacooley said:The M3 and GT500 are "factory tuners" not your standard production fare. Both are substantially more expensive than the 'stock' cars they were built from.
300bhp/ton said:The M3 is a full production vehicle and although M is BMW motorsports divsision its still the same company. It's not a limited run special. It more BMW's Corvette, it just happens to look like the cheaper and far less exciting 3 series, but then thats just Germany's way.
In fact the current M3 was the 1st 3 series to be launched for that incarnation/generation.
yeah I guess the big difference is that the SVO then later the SVT guys used to take a stock Mustang and change components to make a faster, better edition. The GT500 looks more like it will be more of a dedicated model but it in principle is still a GT with different components.SVTdriver said:However there has been some talk about the new GT500 being biult to demand (Not being quite as limited as they once were). And SVT is most definately the same company as Ford.
sacha said:The thing is, the demand for these cars is there so Ford doesn't need to give us more even though it would be very easy for them to do so at not much extra cost (all they had to do was tune it properly and they could've added an extra 10 to 20 horses). I think there is some truth to Uber's signature. Not to say stangs were designed to go 55, but they clearly weren't designed to fully meet the cars own potential.