Originally Posted by Bullitt995

Ok, wow. Good on road coarse does not equal good on road. I don't know how you got that. I bet if you drove around a real track car on the streets you would rethink what you have just said. Suspensions that are set up for road racing and perform best on a race track are HORRIBLE for daily driving. Have fun getting your teeth rattled out driving everywhere. And oh yeah, going over speed bumps? Hahah have fun. Go read the Top Gear review on the C6 Z06. Jeremy Clarkson LOVES the car but he said under no circumstances would he want to drive one. This is because the car is set up for the race course and not for normal road driving. You have to suffer in traffic every day just to enjoy the weekend drives.

Originally Posted by Bullitt995

Ok, wow. Good on road coarse does not equal good on road. I don't know how you got that. I bet if you drove around a real track car on the streets you would rethink what you have just said. Suspensions that are set up for road racing and perform best on a race track are HORRIBLE for daily driving. Have fun getting your teeth rattled out driving everywhere. And oh yeah, going over speed bumps? Hahah have fun. Go read the Top Gear review on the C6 Z06. Jeremy Clarkson LOVES the car but he said under no circumstances would he want to drive one.

Originally Posted by Bullitt995

Ok, wow. Good on road coarse does not equal good on road. I don't know how you got that. I bet if you drove around a real track car on the streets you would rethink what you have just said.
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Originally Posted by Vermillion06

Maybe the Mustang isn't for you then. Hardcore Mustang enthusiasts have historically been "hands-on" people who aren't afraid to modify/customize their cars to their liking, whether it be for drag racing, road racing, or just looking cool.

Ford provides the basics (good horsepower, good styling, good ride/handling) and the Mustang enthusiast adds the rest to customize the car to his/her liking.

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Originally Posted by rhumb

Dude, take a deep breath, wipe the foam from your mouth and step away from the window.

Wrong coast, grew up in suburban/rural Maryland. Started driving tractors at 7 years old -- sliding off the seat to work the clutch/brake and barely staring through the top half of the steering wheel -- and worked up from there. Got to shift it into third (top) gear when 10, a seminal life moment if ever there was one!

No racing replicates precisely what a street car encounters on the street. Guess my gist is that road racing comes much closer to that, and thus is a better overall measure of a car's capabilities, than drag racing, which basically tests just one narrow aspect of a cars performance envelope and drivers skill set.

My ideal might be something more along the lines of some combination road racing and rallying on production street cars (with necessary safety mods and bare minimal performance mods only) that are street-legally licensed. Basically the ideal of race it on Sunday, drive it on Monday.

Stang's have the straight ahead and style down pat whereas the turn, stop and other aspects of its dynamic envelope range from adequate to pretty good but really seem to be second tier concerns. While the motor is quite capable of generating great speed, the chassis and brakes are obviously quite a bit less adept at utilizing that speed.

I'd just like to see the Stang flesh out these weaker point, well demonstrated by the C&D article, so that they aren't the Stang's Achille's Heel(s) allowing a FWD 2-liter Chevy econocar have its way with it on anything other than a drag race. The potential is certainly there, what with a great motor and general chassis -- it wouldn't take Ford that much to really take it up a notch or two and turn the tables.