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Originally Posted by DGthe3
The MR shocks are as much for ride comfort as they are for performance. The Camaro could do without them and have equally good handling, but it would be a lot harsher. Then there is the weight advantage it will have over the CTS-V. GM already makes a cheaper car than the CTS-V that outperforms it, it's the Corvette Grand Sport.
For the Mustang, you are ignoring the fact that nearly all the comparisons with the 2010 GT were against the track pack equipped cars. Even then, I don't recall too many instances where the GT ran quicker times than an SS. It might have posted better numbers for calibrated tests, but it wasn't enough to top the overall performance of the Camaro.
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my bad about the AWD.
To your point, I guess we will have to see. You have some good points, but I might add that the Corvette is a sports car, the Camaro technically is not. The Corvette easily out-performs the CTS-V by virtue of its substantial weight advantage, a substantial weight-advantage that the Z/28 does not have. I would also argue that the CTS-V platform is a better performance platform than the Camaro's Zeta platform.
The real competition will be in 2014 when the new platforms come out for Camaro and Mustang. That will be a glorious war to behold, as the Camaro will lose its weight disadvantage and the Mustang will lose its SRA.