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Originally Posted by BlaqWhole
I'm gonna have to say that performance for dollar and with all things counted including options, the current available C8s (Base and Z51) are the best value hands down. Second place goes to the ZL1.
No matter how anyone slices it GM makes the best value of cars on the planet.
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I'm still going with ZL1 as best performance value in the world. It will beat a Z51 C8 around a track, and aside from a dig, beat it from a roll, too. It also stops better than the C8. All that with back seats and the engine in the wrong place! If the C8 didn't have the insane 0-60 times, I don't think it would have the same fanfare.
Did you see the time Randy P. put down at Laguna Seca for the Z51 C8 at this year's MT Best Driver's Car? 1:37.83. Slower than an SS 1LE from a few years back (1:37.77) and nearly two seconds slower than the GT350R (obviously with an M6) time of 1:36.11 from that same year as the SS 1LE. The Z51's time is 4.9 seconds slower than a 911 Turbo S that was also on street summer tires for this year's BDC, and 4 seconds slower than the GT500 CFTP (1:33.84), also same day as the 911 Turbo S. These are all Randy P. times from MT's BDC competition.
The C8 is not a supercar, yet. It will be once the Z06 and other variants arrive. No doubt the capabilities are there for those future models.
Any not for nothing, but this is the second Shelby Mustang to finish in 2nd place in the last few years behind a bona fide supercar (GT350R finished 2nd behind a McLaren 570S in 2016 which by the way went 1:34.58).