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Originally Posted by rez333
Dude.. this entire forum has existed on speculation and rumors for what.. 2 years now? If you don't want to play, go away.
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I think we have fair proxy examples we can point to. There are at least a couple cars I can think of that have proven there is a great chance ZL1 will perform better than what you believe. I can think of one car, that will remain nameless, that was mod'd by a Sponsor of our Community, and they pitted it against a new Mustang (given - it was a '10, but the enhancements would've pretty much been the same except for the Coyote, in which case it would've had a large power advantage, according to the Sponsor's implications) with that same companies best offerings. Both cars were equipped with the same size wheels and exact tires, and the SS eek'd out a slightly better time. There were deficiencies found on both cars but my point is CAMARO put the power down better, and turned better. You can search for the tests and results, but simply dismissing ZL1 I think is more premature than our alleged benchracing (not your quote - just a later one). While I know this proxy isn't exactly objective, both cars were pretty equal and it seems to me the chassis differences is what it came down to, and that's what I think the advantage is for CAMARO.
I don't rhyme well, so I won't try, lol.
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Originally Posted by detltu
While this may be true, The Cadillac engineers don't care what the mustang does directly. They care what the M3 does. If the GT500 comes out with 600hp do you think Cadillac would have tried to come up with 600hp. I promise you the BMW folks don't view the mustang as competition. They aren't worried about it.
Since the ZL1 and Cadillac share engines the Mustang will have an affect on the Cadillac going forward. That is the only reason though.
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M3 folks don't even care about CAMAROs. I went over there and read some posts, and that's exactly the attitiude. And, I thought the M3 was built to compete with the M5...