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12-29-2009, 12:12 PM

freyke

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FYI - the bar has been raised...

http://www.examiner.com/x-572-Auto-R...-to-be-stunned

12-29-2009, 12:20 PM

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OH NO

lol

12-29-2009, 12:28 PM

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St. Jude Donor '08-'10

They should do the turbo version from the SHO. Nice 370hp package.

12-29-2009, 12:32 PM

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If its price point is what I think (circa $30K) it is; 411 HP is dang impressive.

12-29-2009, 12:40 PM

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Who wants to bet it will still weigh about 2 tons?

12-29-2009, 12:46 PM

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Good for Ford, I'm glad they are keeping the Mustang competive with the Camaro HP wise.
Sure the GT500 has even more power, but that is in a different price catagory.
Competition is good for everybody.

12-29-2009, 12:52 PM

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If its price point is what I think (circa $30K) it is; 411 HP is dang impressive.

And what if Ford added the GT500 look to it aka GS, I'm willing to bet they'd have to operate the plant 24/7 to keep up with demand. SALES and bringing traffic into the showroom is every manufactures number 1 concern right now.

12-29-2009, 12:59 PM

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Wait til the Z28 comes out with the 505hp LS7

12-29-2009, 01:01 PM

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St. Jude Donor '21-'22-'23-'24

It's been raised here 2 or 3 times.

12-29-2009, 01:17 PM

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Now we are really talking about a viable entry leve Mustang GT to compete against the new Camaro, Ford had to do this with the Camaro sales off the map, maybe the C6 will get an engine upgrade over the base 430/436 HP

12-29-2009, 01:28 PM

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Who wants to bet it will still weigh about 2 tons?

it would make sense that is what the Camaro weighs

12-29-2009, 01:55 PM

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so Ford FINALLY figured out how to get 400 hp NA out of that platform, took them long enough! you figured they would have come up with something else instead of beating their head againt the wall for this long, whoopee!

12-29-2009, 02:23 PM

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12-29-2009, 03:10 PM

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So, where the heck IS the alternator on this beast? I don't see it anywhere in any of the tech diagrams either....

12-29-2009, 04:57 PM

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St. Jude Donor '05

after digging around i heard there is reports that the 6spd manual ran a 12.6 at 116

what does the ls3 c6 and ls3 camaro run? anyone got the figures from the few diff mags?

12-31-2009, 02:32 AM

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after digging around i heard there is reports that the 6spd manual ran a 12.6 at 116

what does the ls3 c6 and ls3 camaro run? anyone got the figures from the few diff mags?

No but I have real figures on my last trip to the track, the SS could get out of the 13's, it was a six speed, but it was on street tires.

12-31-2009, 07:02 AM

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after digging around i heard there is reports that the 6spd manual ran a 12.6 at 116

what does the ls3 c6 and ls3 camaro run? anyone got the figures from the few diff mags?

buddy of mine rented the Hertz Vette few days ago, it ran 12.6@113, an thats an auto LS3, just to give a ball park