I'm quoted? Well.....I'm flattered. I don't care what point they made with whatever I said - but I'm flattered!
Actually....I know of one other time a GT500 forum quoted me...and that was when I issued that public warning to our "Mustang friends"...they didn't like that...
You have to remember one thing about the current Camaro5.com.....there are a lot of newbies to the Camaro here. Which IS, undeniably, a good thing for the car...but they've got some time ahead of them...and besides all that - generally speaking, the larger a crowd gets, the more chances you have of finding someone stupid in it...I'm not insinuating anybody here is stupid, because this is a public post - but you get my drift....
It's a compromise I'm willing to live with, because the vast majority of people here - I find to be enthusiastic and likable. As I said in my journal thread - the car embodies the spirit of its enthusiasts, to me...it's a special feeling.
As for the GT500....you've all heard me say it before...
GT500 is old-school brute-force muscle car.
ZL1 is the new-age super-"muscle car".
They are nearly incomparable if you ask me. But if forced into a line-by-line comparison; the ZL1 is vastly superior in 90% of categories to the Mustang...but all people seem to care about when bench racing is the horsepower number (funny, though...before the '13 announcement, nobody seemed to care the SS and V6 Camaro made more power than their Mustang rivals
)...and the quarter-mile guesses...which, I'll grant - will most likely be quicker than the Z.
But the GT500 is one giant heap of a compromise. It's as polished as a turd can get....the architecture is Antiquated....So Ford stuck to their strengths and pushed an outrageous-output engine into a car that otherwise is very unimpressive to the keen observer.
Time will show this to be true, imho.....
But in the end - I don't really care. I didn't buy the ZL1 because "it was the best"...or because I fooled myself into thinking this is as good as its ever going to get. I just....like the car. A LOT.
