Motor Trend Head to Head: 2015 Camaro 1LE vs. new 2015 Mustang 5.0 GT PP

[rock1962]

Good to see the mustang put on a few pounds, hopefully the 6th gen camaro loses a few.

[Bosse'sBoss]

Another great news for GM, besides that the Camaro Z28 was this year '14 Motortrend's Best Driver's car (prior years: '13 Porsche 911 Carrera S4, '12 Porsche Carrera S & '11 Ferrari 458 Italia) just to show what the Engineers at GM are capable of doing.
-Also great design and performance of the Corvette Stingray, and just waiting to see the performance number of the new Z06.
-Camaro: 1LE, ZL1 & Z28. Neither FORD or DODGE have nothing to beat them at the circuit. (Maybe just the Viper T/A is on the same league of the ZR1 & Z28).

I'm just waiting for the new '16 Camaro SS to come out, and I hope that all base SS model have the stock 1LE performance suspension and tires included & maybe also to come out in the automatic version for other customers to enjoy that fine performance handling on their cars.
GREAT JOB GM, continue keeping the good performance coming.

Guess which car will replace my '11 Mustang GT 5.0: A '16 Camaro SS 1LE Just hope that it comes in automatic transmission (I want one).

[Norm Peterson]

Originally Posted by rock1962

Good to see the mustang put on a few pounds, hopefully the 6th gen camaro loses a few.

The flip side to that is that a heavier Mustang means that there is less incentive for the Camaro to lose weight any time soon. Eventually, all of these cars will have to shed weight, but Ford just let one of the Mustang's advantages slip through their fingers, so that pressure is now off at least for the time being.


Norm

[Angrybird 12]

Originally Posted by Norm Peterson

The flip side to that is that a heavier Mustang means that there is less incentive for the Camaro to lose weight any time soon. Eventually, all of these cars will have to shed weight, but Ford just let one of the Mustang's advantages slip through their fingers, so that pressure is now off at least for the time being.


Norm

The thing is during the development of the 6th gen Camaro, Ford was hinting the Mustang would lose weight with this version. That put pressure on GM to lower the weight of the 6th gen. Now the 6th gen is probably 95% set I doubt GM will say well let's go ahead and forget the plans for weight reduction...
Its time GM jumped on this and not let opportunity slip away.

[tooslow]

Originally Posted by krisprz2010camaross

Why are mustang people in a forum for Camaros?

-"Ride or Die."

Good question. I was just wondering the opposite when scanning the Mustang6g site a couple of days ago. Camaro guys came out of the woodwork over there after this comparison was released. Go figure.

[Firefighter]

Originally Posted by Angrybird 12

The thing is during the development of the 6th gen Camaro, Ford was hinting the Mustang would lose weight with this version. That put pressure on GM to lower the weight of the 6th gen. Now the 6th gen is probably 95% set I doubt GM will say well let's go ahead and forget the plans for weight reduction...
Its time GM jumped on this and not let opportunity slip away.

I tend to agree with the line of thinking.

If it comes in considerably lighter they may decide to add some niceties that would previously have been eliminated due to weight though.

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[Bad@ssCamaro]

Originally Posted by krisprz2010camaross

Why are mustang people in a forum for Camaros?

-"Ride or Die."

Originally Posted by krisprz2010camaross

I understand that too I love all types. I hangout with alot of tuner cars and import people. But I'm saying this is a Camaro forum and the mustang is a rival.

Spies. Those that join several different forums are those people that want to be informed about what the "other" guy is doing, the nature of competitevness. It's probably a way for them to substantiate their decisions and get affirmation for them. Nothing wrong about being informed, just as long as you're not stirring up the pot....like some people do.

[SSCam99]

Very cool! Well done Team Chevy!

[BobDigi5060]

Longtime lurker, since 08' I'm sure.

Camaro5 is where it's at... This is a very popular platform and message board. From the black prototype at the track to the updates for 2012, debut of ZL1, and Z/28. Feels like it was yesterday.

[Thrillz]

Honestly who cares about performance the 2015 mustang is so god dam ugly. I'm trying to like it but i can't. The interior is freaking amazing ill give them that but f*ck who designed this thing 3 blind mice. I can see sales taking a beating on this design and the challenger taking #2 in sales behind the Camaro.

[Punk_rider]

Originally Posted by Thrillz

Honestly who cares about performance the 2015 mustang is so god dam ugly. I'm trying to like it but i can't. The interior is freaking amazing ill give them that but f*ck who designed this thing 3 blind mice. I can see sales taking a beating on this design and the challenger taking #2 in sales behind the Camaro.

Why is interior so great? coz' it's euro-japanese.

Why is exterior so poor? coz' it's euro-japanese!

Mustang went global, Mustang isn't american muscle anymore, being because of its (crappy) look or (crappy) technical choices (c'mon .... 4 banger in a muscle car???)

Mustang isn't part of the family anymore. There are only Chevys and Dodges in the muscle/pony cars family.

Mustang = Fiesta = focus = all this global crap.

This new mustang could be way faster than a Camaro, i wouldn't care at all ... well, as much as if a Honda or Nissan was faster ... "you faster? great, but your car doesn't have a soul anyway"

[Norm Peterson]

Originally Posted by krisprz2010camaross

Why are mustang people in a forum for Camaros?

Because I'm a car guy first.


Norm

[CamaroTom]

Originally Posted by Norm Peterson

Because I'm a car guy first.


Norm

Same here. .

[Camaro Dude]

Originally Posted by Bad@ssCamaro

Spies. Those that join several different forums are those people that want to be informed about what the "other" guy is doing, the nature of competitevness. It's probably a way for them to substantiate their decisions and get affirmation for them. Nothing wrong about being informed, just as long as you're not stirring up the pot....like some people do.

Norm Peterson might be in the minority, and I respect his pose on here, but let me tell some of you other stang lurkers something, or camaro owners who think this is proper etiquette.

I have been on many MANY forums, since the inception of them actually. From Porsche, to Roadfly's BMW section, to every single Audi/VW forum out there like Vortex, etc, most M3 forums, Touareg/Cayenne forums, Jeep wrangler forums, etc.

One thing I have never done to this date, is to register on a forum, and after moving on with an other type of vehicle, to advertise in my old Avatar, or "my speak" for that matter, an other type of ride not at all affiliated with the respective forum I used to be part of. Sure I'll continue to visit the other forums, because like many of you self proclaimed car guys , I am one too.

However, I refuse to log in and/ or change my Avatar to show the "old group" that I'm part of "the competition" or go out of my way, "HEY this is me now!" I'll continue to stay within character, offer my $0.02 to noobs, from experiences and living on the bleeding edge for years with said particular breed, whilst many may know that I have moved on to something else. But I'll never allow that to interfere with their forum. I find that quite disrespectful, but I digress, at the end of the day, we are just dudes sitting behind a screen or device afterall.

Love my 1LE