Whatever the reason is that the GT came in faster in 0-60 that 4.9 is just further proving what an incredible bang for the buck that '05 GT really is. I never thought I would see an under 5 second car that sells for under $27k.

 

While I am completely in love with my new GT, and love to see the numbers they posted, I just can't believe the other cars didn't kick more hiney. We all knew the saleen stinks, but the steeda Q is upgraded fairly nicely and the numbers just don't show it.

I think these people need more testing or better drivers. This just stinks.

 

"I concur"

The GT is performing exceptionally well. But, one would think to see better results from the other "editions". :scratch: Did they use different drivers for different cars? I'm bumfuzzled about these poor performance #'s. And like I said earlier, where did they get their weight #'s from? Different from what I've gotten from Saleen and Ford.

 

wow

surprise surprise surprise

 

that GT seems like a ringer. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE seeing numbers like that, but there is no way that hopped up Steeda should have posted slower times in any performance test. And the GT-R should have hit mid 12s at MINIMUM. Something is amiss.....

 

i don't see how the gt-r weighs more when it's had guts taken out of it and a road racing suspension put in it???

 

Something aint right I tell you......

 

The only one that really supprised me was the GT-R concept, but it's designed for road racing. I'm not sure if maybe that would make that much diff in 1/4 mile racing. Maybe they just sat at the line and smoked the tires for 2 seconds before grabbing some pavement.

The Steeda Q has only a few real hp/tq upgrades, mostly just asthetic and suspension upgrades, but the magazine said they added a few extra steeda hp/tq upgrades to add to the package.

The language in the article really did elude to the stock GT possibly being a ringer, but the numbers don't seem all that far off from what some people have already done in their GT's.

I love hearing good things about this car but I'm a little suspicious about the article. Sounds too good to be true, even if they did seem to think all those upgraded GT's were worth the extra cash...which really makes even less sense if the cars aren't blowing the stock version completely out of the water.

 

Exactally, the times and results posted, don't match the words that accompany the article.

 

See, what bothers me is not the fact that the GT could have been a ringer, but the GTR times have to be completely wrong, in my opinion that is a heck of alot of driver error to not be able to drive that GTR faster than a 13.5. Looking over the specs on the GTR it should be running high 12s at least :scratch:

 

It all has to due with traction man! The 05 GT took years of prep time to get it just right. The steeda and saleen took what, maybe 6 months? Put some firm drag springs on there and some sticky tires and those ET's will drop like dead flies!

 

Thanks for scanning the article GhostTX! I was looking for it the other day at the, but couldn't find it! :bang:

0-60 for the V6 at 6.8 seconds? Not too bad for under 20 Grand!

Long live the Mustang! :worship:

 

Thanks for the article Ghost, here it is in color. I finally got my copy last night.

 

love the Q!

 

A stock GT pulling better numbers than the $175,000 GTR? Sounds very fishy don't you think? Kinda like they pulled a "Saleen" from MT...

 

0-60 in 4.9 now? WOW, I saved myself $149,752.14 by going with the GT instead of the GTR like I was planning.
Thanks Karpro!

 

Yes, the GT is looking great. but these other #'s, something doesn't add up, especially the 367 hp Steeda and and 440 hp GT-R.

 

if i had known there'd be scans, i wouldn't have bought the mag yesterday grrr....lol

 

It's all good, there's a pretty good article on the baby blue Jaguar w/ some good pics as well.

 

It's all good, there's a pretty good article on the baby blue Jaguar w/ some good pics as well.
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R&T made a point of saying that the car probably was "broken in" over the last test car they wrote about it Dec. So, the GT they tested probably had some miles on it.

That tells me that the Mustang GT will get faster once you put miles on it....which isn't surprising.

What is more surprising is GM advertising that an '05 GTO will do 0-60 in 4.6 secs. I've yet to see any independent review get those numbers. Best I've heard independently for a GTO was 4.8 secs 0-60.