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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.
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Im confident the GT500 (last gen) would beat the ZLE no problem on the Nurburgring. Horsepower matters a ton on that track and it literally has a 100 more HP. It’s faster around VIR and Randy Pobst tested both cars the same day on an episode of throttle house. The GT500 was on cooked tires so it lost that day but Randy said he was positive on tires as fresh as the ZLE had the GT500 would be faster. It was 10 mph faster on the straight. He said. Since Randy said it’s the faster car I believe him. There’s a bunch of spots on the Nurburgring where that power would be put to use.
Now I want to point out I still think the ZLE is the better value. 77k versus 100k