UK:- Mustang Boss vs Camaro SS test
 

This'll ruffle a few feathers I'm sure. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-REiM...eature=related I'll have both please.:thumbup:

That Boss is a really nice car. I considered one, but my wife was really in love with the Bumblebee edition and since her happiness is directly tied to my happiness..... I forgot all about the Boss and the GT500 and got the car that would make her happy to bang gears in!

I knew I was buying the less performing of my options, but I was buying what I'll agree is the better looking option. The Camaro is a sexy looking bit of engineering!

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Yes I also think the Boss is a very nice car but the 2012 Camaro SS and the Mustang GT 5.0 are way better on the street then the Boss. The one I took out for a test had a sticker of $49K and no back seat. The Boss was kind of a dog at low RPMs but pulled very hard at 5k+ where the GT had way more down low where you spend most of your time driving. All in all the new ZL1 is where it is at a good DD and a monster on the track NO mustang can say that and it only cost a few more K then a loaded Boss and has way more stuff on it.

And that was a auto Camaro vs stick Boss

I never understand why the compare a manual vs. an automatic in tests when both are available with sticks. Making the cars as equal as possible is paramount to testing then against each other.

An auto ss vs a manual 5.0 isn't a fair comparison

Especially the Boss 5.0. Camaro SS M6 has more high end pull than the L99.

I was about to say Autocar seems a bit behind the times...then I saw this was posted August '11. :bellyroll:

An auto 5.0 vs manual ss isn't fair either.

When 2011s GT first came out I think a guy with an auto 5.0 mentioned being able to run low 12s. with a tune and intake only auto.

Almost 5.5 seconds to 60 with the Camaro? Seems awful high?

that looked about right. Both drivers werent very good, you can tell by how much the Boss was nosediving between shifts. That was pretty ugly though.

5 seconds for the Boss was also slow.

Could be due to a number of factors. The track itself is one obvious culprit -runways don't provide the best traction for a drag race, thats what drag strips are for. Environmental conditions are another. I got a feeling that it was a particularly hot & humid day there, though I can't really say anything for sure from the video. If it was (and they don't bother to use a correction factor), its going to hurt the performance of both cars quite a bit. Lastly, they probably didn't use the 1 foot rollout method for measuring 0-60. That would result in times that are around a quarter second slower than they would be otherwise. Couple tenths here, couple tenths there ... it adds up.

Nah that's pretty spot on. Low 0-60 times for both cars. Unfortunate they tested against an auto. :thumbdown:

All the other reviews that I've seen for the Boss put it in the mid to low 4's 0-60.