2010 mustang goes 8.97@153..

dgc333 said
I don't think anyone thinks that. I just read a little piece in Car Craft this morning about a Charger running 9.47 @ 153 with a super charged 6.1 and this car still had a full interior and was street legal. The Challenger Drag Pak car is going to be over 1000 lbs lighter, with the same engine it will be in the 8's.

The original post implied you could go to your local Ford dealer an buy a Cobra Jet Mustang and take it to the track and run 8 seconds. The car is delivered with a 475 HP motor so that is hardly the case.

As moper stated and I tried to state it's only when these cars are running in the same class to the same rules will you be able to make any real comparisons as to the perfromance. I believe they will be comparable.

As for appearance I like all three of the new pony cars and would be very happy to own anyone of them. But there are things about the appearance of all three I don't like and just from a pure asthetics standpoint the Mustang would get my vote. If I were to consider one of these cars to buy it would have to be as a year round daily driver and I could not justify the GT, the SRT8 or the SS for that application. The Camaro with the 300HP v6 and 6 spd manual that gets 30 mpg would get my nod.

sorry i did not spend 20 minutes typing out EXACTLY what I meant. allow me to rephrase it at this point, the Mustang is a drag car that has developed, rather quickly, from a decent performer into a hard running car. i find the fact that it runs in the 8's only 2 years or so after its release impressive, especially given the fact of the relatively small slicks. i do not care who built the car, i find it impressive. in no way did i mean that the Mustang was going to 8.9 right off the show room floor, however, I did mean that you could at least race it with minimal work, unlike the Challenger, which to the best of my knowledge does not run, has no workable transmission nor rear suspension in it. While there is no doubt in my mind the Challenger will run equally as hard, to date, it has not. As far as the looks of the car, find it funny that people argue over beauty is in the eye of the beholder. it is funny how people misinterpret and spin others comments to fit, but then forget other things that are said, I believe I also said that i would not have cared if it was a frigging Nash, it is still impressive that they were able to get the car into the 8's this quickly. this is what I find impressive, that someone was able to take a car, and with just 2 years of development, get it to run this hard. by the way, not that it should matter to anybody, but i think the new Mustang/Camaro and Challenger are all FUGLY.....