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Originally Posted by BlaqWhole
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For the record, although these are the current top trim Challengers and Mustangs they still are not Corvettes. The Vette is priced high but it also offers nearly unbeatable all around performance much like it's baby brother. The Challengers are only good for one thing. It remains to be seen if the GT500 can prove itself. But they are not on the same performance level as the Vettes that cost the same price. So I'm not sure how they can be compared and how the price can be justified from that standpoint.
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Originally Posted by Martinjlm
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Have you noticed that for GM C7 Z06 exceeded C6 ZR1 performance? And 6th Gen SS performance is on par with 5th Gen ZL1? And then the top range cars (ZL1 and ZR1) blew those performance levels out of the water? That’s how. Setting the mark for each performance trim to be on par with the one step HIGHER trim for the outgoing model. So....what does that mean for C8 Z06?
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Chevy Performance builds the most capable, well rounded, cars and that capability projects all the way down to the base trims.
It
is impressive that they set the mark to jump trims with the change generations.
- gen6 SS = gen5 ZL1
- C7 Z06 = C6 ZR1
- C8 is a $60k supercar
Ford
appears to have set the mark for the S550 as the outgoing Zeta platform Camaro. Even then, only certain metrics and completely missing others. Then they backtracked and redesigned the GT and delayed the GT500.
Ford’s 0.1 advantage with the GT
* doesn’t compensate for the inadequacies of its chassis or how poor the GT still is.
How do you even describe the PP2? A street car with the suspension that should be on the PP1, with tires that are wrong for the street?
Now we’ll see what the GT500 can do. In typical Ford fashion, I expect the $74k GT500 will have serious inadequacies that the $94k GT500 CF (
“*” trim) will cover but somehow still not be a completely well sorted car.
Ford and Dodge aren’t at the same level as Chevy but Dodge doesn’t pretend to be.
So while
newmoon celebrates Ford eeking out conditional,
* trim related victories against four model year old Camaro’s, Chevy Performance has served notice with the C8. Forward =>