tiburon vs. mustang

i have a friend with a new tiburon gt v6 and he has a full exhaust. This kid never shuts up about how fast his car is. I have an 01 manual with flowmasters. Will he smoke me at the track?

I think it would be close. The tiberon is 170 HP with a curb weight of 2940 and 181lbs of trq. It depends on the driver I think.

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Tiburon is a relatively heavy small coupe and this V6 isn't potent for its size.

This is a quote from consumerguide, take it for what its worth, they also say the midrange on it stinks basically. 0 to 60 in 7.7 secs.

You give him a run for his money. do you have a manual or auto, and can you drive??

lol i was just looking up the specso n the tib. however you will beat him off the line (your torque is 225 lbs at 2800 rpm vs 181 lbs @ 4000) from what i see the curb wt. is 3041 ( http://www.intellichoice.com/reports/vehicleReport.cfm/vehicle_nmb/11896/section/specs )

so yeah it'l be close. is his auto or std?

plus you can always just laugh that it's a hundai.....lol

we both have manuals. thanks for the info.

Well even if you lose, you can laugh when his car breaks in a few years.

i used to want one of those when they first came out there pretty nice inside

According to motor trend it runs 15.3 @ 90.8 MPH.

I test drove a Tiburon GT not too long ago (but before I got the Stang...now I don't need to test drive anything, I'm more than happy thank you much.) In all honesty, I wasn't impressed with it...the interior WAS kind of nice, but there really wasn't much pull at all from the motor...not to mention it IS a Hyundai. In a race situation, you should have him off the line but it'd be a driver's race after that...that's my $.02

I'm 6'2" and any small car I detest, cause I need a can opener to get out of it. I sat in the rx8 at the car show I just about got stuck inside of it.

.. I know how you feel...I'm 6'5"....I don't see how anyone can fit their foot in a Miata.

yeah i'm about 6'2 myself and I test drove a toytoa mr2 sypder....i felt like a granny driver all huddled up over the wheel....the seat was as far back as it could go also. lol.

hah yeah i 6' 4" and after driving little cars when i got the stang i was suprised cus of all the leg room it had compared to others but i could see where chunky people would have truble getting in and out... no offence to overwieght people

this kid with the tiburon said he ran a 9.7in the 1/8 of a mile. Is that a good time?

my friend has an auto, and i smoked him pretty bad. his was an 03 so i dont know if there have been any changes since. but yeah for a dohc v6 its very weak. o yea this was in the 01 stang automatic.

9.7inches in a 1/8 mile, he obviously broke something cause he didn'
t make the full 1/8th.

Not exceptitional.

lol typical hundai *****

my grandma has a hyundai santa fe. god it's been in on more recalls than my stang has been in on repairs!

dunno bout u guys but thats enough to beat me in my stock 00 5spd, i couldnt pull under 10 sec 1/8ths at the track...now i also had mad bald tires and couldnt get under 16.0 1/4 which i no most of u can run faster. thats all fixed now tho got some fresh nitto 555's and my spintech catback should be here n e day now ill get some new times once thats on.