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Originally Posted by unavailablezl1
I think it is funny when Mustang people on here or Mustang6g, say the the ZL1 has so much more horsepower and should have killed the GT350R. Ok, so it has 124 HP more, a fact. And 221 more tq, a fact. But anyone that knows anything about cars, that increased speed in not proportional to increased HP. If a car has 500 hp and does the 1/4 mile in 11 seconds and the other car has 750 HP, that doesn't mean the 750 HP car is going to do the 1/4 mile in 8.25 seconds. Get real. Less weight = more speed with no more HP.
I know not everyone has heard of the 80/20 rule. But it does apply here. Every tenth of a second in the 1/4 mile takes incrementally more HP or less weight to get there.
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That is true. But I do think that the margin by which the ZL1 beat the GT350R (0.39 seconds) is a pretty big margin. Maybe not for a beginner on a track. But when you're a pro and you're pushing both cars to their limits, that 0.39 seconds is very big.
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Originally Posted by shaffe
I don't want to keep arguing the same points, but to me it seems like you are caught up in the now.
The 350R was built to beat the Z/28. It was an N/A focused track car built to compete with the cross town rivals N/A track car. They did and they did it cheaper than the Z/28. That was the cars mission.
Now that GM has the upper hand IMO doesn't take anything away from the 350R. It does not make it over priced, it does not make it less special. What does do is show how damn good the ZL1 is.
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Perhaps you are right. But the GT350 was built in 2016 and the last Z28 was 2015. So they should not have been focusing on the previous generation Camaro knowing the new generation would be out with new and improved performance. And for that matter...the GT350R outperformed the Z28 and was offered at a better price...but the ZL1 destroys the previous Z28 AND the GT350R while offering more and better options AND coming in cheaper. So that kinda says a lot. And a lot of us have ZL1s. The GT350R is unattainable because they jack the prices way up. Outside of that you have the GT350 which is barely able to keep up with the SS 1LE (which is cheaper).