ORIGINAL: vynle
whats funny here is i belong to a mustang forum as well as this one , and i did a seach on our challengers to see the smack they run about our srt8's and i can honestly say they dont even talk about them. seems to me the handful of members here are the only ones concerned about mustangs vrs challengers. get over urselves boys, if it wernt for the mustangs going back to the retro look in 05, you wouldnt even have ur challengers!!!!!! and as ive stated before stock gts almost are as fast as the srt8s and who cares about topend, going 172mph where u gonna do that? but put them in a quarter mi. lets see the times, bring us timeslips and post. thats the onlything mustang owners care about " walk the walk" . my buddies GT is running 17lbs of turbo boost and layin down 589rwhp and over 600fptq. and will pin u to the seat where u cant even move.this car runs with vipers and vetts and they dont even want a piece of it. he looks totaly stock and would love to put u in ur place. stop bashing and be happy with what u got!!!!! vynle
Now if I started getting into all the posts in here that have logical fallacies, I would probably die before I even got half way through, but here is a problem that needs to be addressed. You want to credit the Mustang for the trend to return to a retro look? There were plenty of retro styled cars that Chrysler made years before this happened. The Prowler was the first major one, then the PT Crusier followed that pattern. Then in the same year that the Mustang came out, the 300C was introduced. Logically the 300C has far more to do with the reintroduction of the Challenger by testing the market for a RWD V8 car inside their own company than the Mustang did.
The GT is not as fast as the SRT-8 the standard acceleration difference between the manuals is about 4.6 secs to 5.1 secs. That is more than a significant enough difference to justify a unquestionable victory for the SRT-8 and the top speed simply shows that the Challenger outclasses the GT. On top of this, the SRT-8 in a previous show down between it and the GT500 with the automatic version demonstrated a initial lead for the Challenger. Now the Challenger has the more acceleration focused manual which helps to strengthen this lead. Now I will be logical and man enough to admit that it appears that stock for stock the GT500 appears to be faster than the GT500; however, the Challenger is a better deal in the long run anyhow.
Another thing, be mature adults when you debate please. And if you must talk about politics, please make a section about politics so then I only have to read that junk when I absolutely have to, to make sure no one is breaking the rules.