You obviously know nothing about the car you are talking about, have you even SEEN one? It has a little thing called a "rev limiter" which will not allow you to rev it to the redline and drop the clutch.
mball, how old are you and have you ever actually DRIVEN a car on the track??
Let's say (purely hypothetical) the car redlines at 6,500. The factory will set the rev limiter at 6,600-6,700. Most rev limiters sit a bit above the redline on the gauge. If you had any real track experience, you'd know that. He said that you rev the car "to" the redline, not mash the gas, swing right through the redline and crash into the rev limiter. It just makes my head hurt.....
Finally, someone who gets what I was trying to say. The Evo and STi are the most complete race cars you can buy stock for $30K.
The Mustang GT NEVER has been intended to be a "race car", nor is it built as-such. If you want a "race car", go buy one, and leave us alone!!! With all that earth-shattering performance of the EVO, you get a ton of compromises that most of the buying public wants no part of. How many times must I repeat myself before it gets through your thick skull, the Mustang GT will sell over 100,000 units a year. That is
OVER 20 TIMES AS MANY EVO'S THAT WILL SELL Ford could easily build a GT that would run with the EVO on the track, BUT, that would tug the car so far to the extreme of its target market, that it would only appeal to the same tiny microscopic niche market that the EVO does. Very FEW people want to deal with the negative aspects of driving a "race car" on a daily basis, as is EVIDENCED by the EVO's limited production and importation. If Mitsubishi thought that they could sell more, they would build and import more. But the demand for such a car is tiny, kind of like your ability to realize that this is a Mustang forum. Why must you insist that the Mustang GT commit virtual SUICIDE, just so it can win an open track event against a car that sells like snowsuits in Florida?? You keep saying that you're trying to prove some point, that we're closed-minded toward other cars. We're not at all. We're realists. We don't WASTE TIME comparing the attributes of a $30K pickup truck vs. a $30K luxury sedan vs. a $30K Harley Davidson custom chopper. The Evo occupies a totally different market segment than the Mustang GT. Sitting here, pitting them against each other is about as silly as watching Michael Jordan try to play baseball.
Who would want
Brembo brakes that stop on a dime? a
Momo steering wheel that controls one of the quickest steering responses in any production car ever built? A world class
suspension that allows you to slice and dice a track? or a turbocharged engine that lets you keep up with (or beat) cars with double the hp and price? All for less than $30K? Ya, the Evo sure doesn't have solid performance at all
I never said that the Evo didn't have solid performance. I suppose that when your argument starts getting old and tired, you just start making stuff up out of thin air. And again, all those attributes you list up there comes at a price of liveability, practicality, ride quality, road-noise damping, etc.etc.... It's not a car for everybody....that's why Mitsubishi sells so FEW!! I feel like a broken record!
Ya, I understand, I understand you dont know what you are talking about.
Yep, I don't know what I'm talking about. I've never owned any top-line performance cars, S351 supercharged, 911, Corvette, and I've never had any track time at Sebring, Road Atlanta, Hallett, etc.etc... Basically, all you've demonstrated to us is that you own a few magazine subscriptions, and can recite #'s that OTHER people accomplished with great fervor. In the back of AutoWeek, they've got a classified section for race cars for sale. Maybe that's where you should shop for your next daily driver
Whats so hard to believe? As I said, a good driver can run high 12s, I see them do it at the track all the time.
