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Originally Posted by BlaqWhole
Fact is that the Mustang crowd is still clinging to their ill-conceived misguided very mistaken thought that the GT can beat the likes of the Corvette and ZL1. I saw some guy on one of the YT videos claiming the C7 Vette is no match for the GT. The Mustang crowd has literally become the ricers of this segment of the auto community. And I think it is because Ford put the price of the GT soo low and left it soo underwhelming underperforming that many younger kids who know nothing about these cars or cars in general were able to get one and now they're just running around talking shit like this sentence ran on. LOL!! And what makes it worse is that they're fully convinced. Just like these kids in Civics are convinced that they can beat the GTs and SS. And then you have trolls like SS Friendly (where is he anyway?) and his troll-crew that came over here perpetuating these idiotic ideas and it gets spread even more. It is sickening to the point that I'll be hunting them down when I see them in the wild just so they'll know what's up.
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Now we have seen examples of stock GT's in the 11's, yet they don't count (because......?) The best comeback to this waters down to "But they won't beat my ZL1?"
BTW, who is 'they'? Try not to speak for other people as much, and then apply that brush to an entire community.
As I see it, the entirety of this came about because it was pointed out that an 18 GT with an e85 tune and wheel/tire swap was putting up times that were faster than stock zl1 numbers. Not sure how this is controversial or earth shattering. Either the car did or did not run those numbers. If it did, why get so bent out of shape about it? How does that effect your enjoyment of your vehicle? The only way I see this as being so upsetting is if its important to you that you are perceived as having the fastest vehicle by total strangers to you. When I drive down the street, I don't care whether people think my car is faster than theirs or not. Its not something I lose sleep over, or become enraged about on an internet forum. I doubt that the VAST majority of either Mustang or Camaro owners give a hill of beans about this.
Even if there are people claiming (unreasonable?) results/metrics for a given vehicle, I think its sort of silly to define an entire car community by that.
Just as it would be silly for me to define
all the Zl1 drivers here as immature idiots who brag about street racing Mclarens while he/she has their family in the car.
Lets make this not about selectively accepting results that fall in line with one's desired outcomes (my Car is better than your Car). Look up the term "Confirmation bias". Rather, instead of choosing to ignore results that contradict one's expectations (using specious excuses), take them as they reveal themselves.
In my opinion, classifying the GT as under-performing is sort of ridiculous. The 15-17 GT had the highest HP per dollar value of any sports/muscle production car sold at the time anywhere in the world.
https://cars.usnews.com/cars-trucks/...wer-per-dollar. When you consider the only real metric that matters to carmakers (Sales), the mustang is not the under-performing pony car. It was the best selling sports car in the world last year.
Less Tribalism. Us vs. Them.
This is becoming worse than some college sports rivalries.
Marvel vs. DC.
Cowboys vs. Redskins.
Camaro vs. Mustang.
Coke vs. Pepsi.