[Joshinator99]

Originally Posted by cdb95z28

In order to beat the ZLE at the 'Ring, Ford had to turn the S650 chassis into a racecar....cool car but it's a heavily modified chassis, 6-7 years after the ZLE set its time. While the GTD starts life on the Mustang production line, Multimatic takes over and makes it a racecar. Oh, and they did most of the engineering too. The ZLE engineering was GM depth, save the DSSVs. Meanwhile the ZLE never saw anything other than the regular Alpha production line and those chassis (suspension) bits of the ZLE are easily interchangeable into any Gen6 variant. IOW, it took Ford to build a racecar to beat the street car ZLE.

Uhm, it beat the ZLE by nearly *20 seconds*…on a DAMP track. That’s an ass kicking and there’s another 10-15 seconds left in the GTD track time. That’s no knock on the ZLE, for a “cheap” car it kicks ass. But sub 7 second Ring territory takes $$$, which is why it’s dominated by Mercedes Benz AMGs and Porsche 911 GT2 and GT3 variants.