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Originally Posted by MEDISIN
Those "unnecessary options" as you call them, are the only reason the GT500 is even in the vicinity of the ZL1 on a road course. That's why Ford sent the $64,000 version to magazines for testing. It can't compete on a road course without them.
I find dollar/hp about as meaningless as hp/L in evaluating a car's performance. There are simply too many other factors that determine a cars performance than raw HP.
Take the 1LE for example. It finished the 2013 Lightning Lap 0.9 seconds behind the GT500 on a 4.1 mile road course. They weigh the same yet the GT500 has 236HP advantage on the 1LE. What does all that extra power accomplish? 0.9 seconds on a 4.1 mile track. Oh, and the 1LE cost $37,000. Like I said the GT500 is a tremendous engine. If only Ford had a decent chassis to put it in.
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To use the bang for the buck argument, I don't know why anyone would buy a ZL1 over the 1LE..anyway different discussion.
These discussions sort of remind me of 1998 when the LS1 found its way into the F-cars. The ZL1 group today sound alot like the 4.6 guys from back then. The horsepower difference between the two was so large that it pushed the discussion to something else. The Ford bunch hated the F-car driving position, handling, fit/finish, cat converter hump in the passenger floor...etc.. To them the mustang was a "better" car... But the one thing they couldn't deny was that the LS1 was just plain faster..
2003-2008 was just too boring, thanks GM..
Fast forward to today, and we have the opposite scenario for each side. Huge power in an older chassis for the mustang, and a more modern chassis for the Camaro but less power.
The horsepower guys won't understand why anyone cares about driving in circles, and the road race guys will point at the HP guys suspensions and laugh. At the end of the day choose what YOU want, drive it and be happy to have that choice..