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2007HEMICUDA
03-23-2009, 10:52 AM
It Finally Begins! I for one can't wait to have these magazine issues as hermetically sealed keep sakes. This must be the cover story on every major rag.
http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/coupes/112_0903_2010_chevrolet_camaro_ss_vs_2009_dodge_ch allenger_rt_vs_2010_ford_mustang_gt/index.html

http://blogs.motortrend.com/6474694/editorial/2010-camaro-mustang-challenger-the-best-ever-ponycars/index.html

I love this line!
almost exactly 20 years since I drove my first ponycar...I'd managed to borrow a Pontiac Trans-Am. It was metallic brown, with the 245-hp L98 under the hood. And it was the biggest piece of crap I had ever driven...The body had the torsional rigidity of overcooked linguini, and the steering was approximate at best. It rode like a Conestoga wagon, and cornered like a drunken sailor. The brakes caught on fire after just five hard miles on the Angeles Crest Highway.

:spock: Fascinating
2007HEMICUDA
03-23-2009, 01:23 PM
Popular Mechanics chimes in liking the Challenger better than MT.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/blogs/automotive_news/4309423.html
Night Moves II
03-23-2009, 07:47 PM
Well..after reading those press stories, all I can say was who was the idiot driving the Challenger R/T?? 14.4 @ 97mph. Was he asleep?? My Challenger R/T ran 13.6 @ 103.5 mph with an automatic and only 540 miles on it. And that with the slow 306 gear!!! Since then I've added a ported throttle body, Corsa cat back, and I'm waiting for my Predator tuner. I'm hoping for high 12s this year.
2007HEMICUDA
03-24-2009, 12:35 PM
Well the general must have deeper pockets because based on price the SS Camaro with 6.2 liters making 426hp weighing 3900 pounds is being compared to the 5.7 R/T. Someone needs to run the SRT8 against the SS and surely it will handle better than the GT.
Night Moves II
03-24-2009, 12:55 PM
Even so, that was a pretty crappy time. I don't think the driver knew how to power shift that R/T
2007HEMICUDA
03-24-2009, 01:06 PM
Oh no doubt these writers seem be as bad a driver as I am but I don't get paid to road test.
Night Moves II
03-24-2009, 01:26 PM
In their case, ignorance is bliss because they get paid for it. LOL
lieu910
03-24-2009, 08:49 PM
Well the general must have deeper pockets because based on price the SS Camaro with 6.2 liters making 426hp weighing 3900 pounds is being compared to the 5.7 R/T. Someone needs to run the SRT8 against the SS and surely it will handle better than the GT.

I don't know if the SRT8 would out handle the GT in the article. It had the track pack option. solid axle or not, the springs/dampers, and sway bars in the track pack really wake the GT up on the roadcourse.

I agree though, they should have thrown an SRT8 in along with the RT for that test, and for that matter the GT500.