08-17-2012, 01:40 PM | #1 | |
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Just the facts: 2013+ SHELBY GT500 VS 2012+ CAMARO ZL1
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08-17-2012, 01:46 PM | #2 |
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And... Nothing new to see here: More weight, less HP...still a bada$$ car.
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08-17-2012, 03:34 PM | #3 |
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GT500 is a beast performance wise but if looks counted it wouldn't be a contest. the camaro and challenger win that hands down.
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08-18-2012, 12:06 AM | #4 |
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GT500 is a numbers car, just like this video shows. However, the ZL1 seems like it is easier to live with and it stays *consistent* on all performance aspects.
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08-18-2012, 05:09 AM | #5 |
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The facts are that people will buy what they like regardless of what a piece of paper has on it. The real winner is measured by how many are sold and how much money is made by selling these types of cars. The camaro has blown the mustang out of the water in sales ever since its return. So I ask, who is the real winner here. I thank GM every day for bringing back the camaro and the ZL1 package. It forced Ford to build a better car.
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08-18-2012, 11:34 AM | #6 |
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The sales did blow out of the water, hence Why I didn't buy one everyone and their brother has an SS, ZL1 not so much. At the time the power of my used 09 shelby took my attention over any new ss.
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08-18-2012, 12:01 PM | #7 |
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Again? So the GT500 has the overall better performance numbers...doubt any ZL1 owners care.
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08-18-2012, 12:41 PM | #8 |
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To be real the gt500 is the faster car and that is the main thing we judge these cars buy.if I ran ford I would have done the same thing.I said to my buddy a long time ago that if gm put a blower on a camaro it would smoke a gt500 I forgot that they won't make it too fast because of the vette.that's sucks big time. For me a mustang should never be able to pull on a camaro.but that just me
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08-18-2012, 01:01 PM | #9 | |
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The Vette only weighs around 3300 lbs. So around an 800 lb difference (that's a ridiculously huge difference in weight). GM could make the Vette considerably faster if they wanted. So however fast the ZL1 is, GM can easily make the Vette faster (if they want). |
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08-19-2012, 01:14 PM | #10 | |
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This is both the dumbest and most intelligent thing I have read here in a while. I think you have a large amount of camaro buyers pent up because of years with no camaro. Also if you look at sales since inception the mustang crushes the camaro. I think the mustang has led GM to make the retro look camaro and put everything that it has into it. Hell GM had to steal cars from holden just to make it happen. I don't want a mustang...well besides a 13 gt500 and maybe a 2004 cobra in yellow. I wanted a camaro because I like they way it looks. We the people of the forum are the ones who can't leave anything stock and ergo who cares about whats faster stock. |
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08-19-2012, 04:32 PM | #11 |
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i guess i'm the only one that read the table at :52 seconds in?
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08-19-2012, 06:57 PM | #12 |
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"who cares about whats faster stock." Good point. Which is why the ZL-1 vs GT500 battle is a huge waste of time when comparing the stock capabilities. Many even the manufacturers know that both these cars will have an increase in power from aftermarket support. Now let's see a ZL-1 with the similar acceleration capability take on the GT500, both cars capable of similar 0-60, 1/4 mile and so on.
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08-19-2012, 08:48 PM | #13 | |
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Which car has the better margin and therefore is making it's manufacturer more money. Also, the last few months has seen the Mustang outsell the Camaro. Then let's consider sales of the cars since their introduction... See what I did there? Manipulated the criteria to declare a winner just like you. The cars like it our not win and lose in equal measure because the cars are by definition two variations on the same concept giving the buyer choice. That makes the winner, the customer...of either.
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