Huh? gotta think it was the driver,the stang should blow it away.

Mustang V6:
4.0L 210 hp

Tiburon GT V6:
2.7L 172 hp

 

well I think most of them are highschool kids, we have a little more mature age group [/b][/quote]

 

seriously I have smoked many a Tiburon on the streets in my 98 V6 and when my friend started talking so much smack about his Tiburon I had to shut him up, it didnt take long and it wasnt even close...and he can drive, thats why he thinks his car is so fast, better driver than most idiots on the road, that and the fact that he thinks that any car driving fast is racing him when in fact they are more than likely not, I get this all the time from imports because I drive fast everywhere I go...I find myself looking over and finding some moron that thinks that I am racing him, laugh and gun it and leave them behind, or keep driving normal....depends on my mood. But back to the case at hand, his is a GT Tiburon with intake and nothing else, manual and I can easily take him by several car lengths off the line in the V6 and the gap just continues to grow the longer it goes, very embarrassing for him and not impressive. He still female doges that I was cheating or some sh!t, and wants to rematch.

 

does anyone else find it ironic that Hyundai drivers hate rice to. I haven't seen many Tiburons without the 3 tier spoiler and non stickered up yet. Maybe it's just me.

 

What is the weight of each car?

 

that thread was pretty funny.

 

I gotta admit I love the seats in the tiburon, and was thinking about getting one. The mustang GT stole my heart away and I pined for 3 months until I got her. I think we need to post a dyno sheet of a V6 over there.

 

MotorWeek.

2003 Tiburon GT 0-60 mph 7.1 seconds

2005 Mustang V6 0-60 mph 7.0 seconds

What you should notice here is, their fastest cars are only equal to the slowest Mustang... B)

 

You should also notice that these cars aren't even in the same class, the Tiburon is comparable to Celicas, Eclipses, RSX's, ect...

 

You should also notice that these cars aren't even in the same class, the Tiburon is comparable to Celicas, Eclipses, RSX's, ect... [/b][/quote]
True...you can't compare the Mustang to anything else, the closest thing would be the GTO

 

i think we can compare the mustang V6 to the tiburon GT... theyre both sporty coupes and in the same price range, and that imo is all we need for a fair comparison. where the car comes from doesnt mean diddly squat, because a car is a car is a car whether from italy, the u.s., or freakin' siberia.

The Tiburon GT actually starts in at 17,999MSRP. so with a thousand saved from not buying the V6, the owner can mod their tiburon to make up for that millisecond difference and beat the V6 to 60.

 

PLEASE

 

That's what gets me too. "Ok, so your fastest model is within a tenth of a second to 60mph of the base model Mustang." What's to be so excited about?

 

That's what gets me too. "Ok, so your fastest model is within a tenth of a second to 60mph of the base model Mustang." What's to be so excited about? [/b][/quote]
thezeppelin8 has a point though. Just because it's the top of the line Tiburon doesn't mean much. It's a two-door coupe with a similar price. That makes it a perfectly valid comparison.

 

thezeppelin8 has a point though. Just because it's the top of the line Tiburon doesn't mean much. It's a two-door coupe with a similar price. That makes it a perfectly valid comparison. [/b][/quote]
I totally agree that it is a valid comparison as far as competition in the market place. My point is that the best and brightest that they can (or at least choose to) produce is on par with our base. model. To me it's like comparing the fastest prop plane to the slowest jet: Sure, it's an impressive propeller plane, but why fly one when you can have a jet.

 

:scratch:

if you can have the fastest prop plane for a little cheaper than a slow jet plane, and then use that money saved from not buying the slow jet plane to make the prop plane even faster, i would go with the prop plane.

BUT, of course it is a V6 Mustang. the styling and heritage make it better than a tiburon in my book, but i wouldnt say that Tiburon drivers are stupid, because they have a car that cost less than a V6 stang and goes just as fast. if people are buying a car for speed and only have 18,000 to use, i wouldnt put them down if they got the tiburon.

 

yea totaly

 

Remember that troll on here that said his '05 V6 outran an '05 GT? Well if he's right and this "Tibby" loser is right, an auto Tibby can outrun a 300-hp 2005 Mustang GT.

 

No its still a Hyundai...and your forgetting that prices are negotiable at dealerships so that grand can easily turn in into a grand cheaper for the mustang especially since dealerships are more willing to get their cheaper model off the lot and let the price slide a bit than they would be with their socalled high end model, I bought my 98 for 14,500 brand new in 98 because there was no way I would pay invoice for a V6 especially when they were going to be changing models. You also have to take into account that if you are going to mod the cars, the general rule across the board is that you can do more with an American car and get more out of it, Asian cars seem to be very limited. I had a similar debate with a friend of mine whos into ricers about the skyline. First off these people really must think that stickers add horsepower, because he thought that the skyline came with 500HP (so did other friends, they say they got this info from a reliable source; probably FAST AND THE FURIOUS) until I proved to him that it only came stock 278HP and it was already Twin Turbo, so how can you add anymore power to something that already comes turbod when superchargers and turbos are the fastest way to get a lot more HP and its already done and you still sit under 300, that stinks. Id much rather buy a car that comes with 300 without the charger or turbo and then add it to get even more. Anyway my point was to agree with the others that its sad that Japans TOP CAR is slower than most of our $30000-$40000 cars and to get one of theirs here new you have to spend over 90 grand, and for some reason ricers think its worth it. JUST SAD.

 

1. Asian Cars limited.

Umm, no. Last Generation Supra or r32-r34 skyline gt-r's take *extremely* well to mods. 800-100 RWHP is common. Show me an american car that can do that without a complete rebuild of the engine from the ground up. I'm just playing devils advocate here, I've never owned a Japanese Import (2 mopars, 2 fords and a bmw in my past).

2. 287hp and Cheap upgrades

How do you upgrade an already FI car cheaply? simple, better FI. Ask the lightning guys, many have replaced their blowers. It's quote common with turbo cars to upgrade the turbos. Audi S4's do it, Eclipses do it, and Skylines do it. Considering their twin turbo 6 stock puts out more power than our n/a 8 does I'm not sure what your point is. Older porsche and ferrari's put out well under 300, (heck, even less than we do) and cost a lot more than 30k new. Does that make them less worthy as supercars? And please drop the $90k figure. The price is so high because of the costs of motorex to make the cars legal imports, if nissan had actually done the work themselves, they would have sold for 40-50k just as they do/did in japan.

3. skyline slow and not worth it

An *extremely* technicalogically advanced car for its time, (intelligent AWD, four wheel steering) capable of putting down 5-600 HP with little to no internal engine work. And with all those gadgets, it weighs less than our GT does. Speed is more than just horsepower.