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i think they get respect it just depends who its from. obviously chevy and import guys are gonna talk badly cause its just competitive nature to do so. Honestly for the buck theres not a car on the road that has as much after market support or is as easy to make fast. look at any magazine like summit. theres a complete 5 page section just on 5.0 stangs. they get respect you just gotta realize that theres always someone thats uneducated thats gonna spark up an arguement that they were slow and didn't handle good. But at the point where it was produced it was built to compete with cars in its class and those cars had simular characteristics. especially f-bodies of that time. they were making simular power. you can easily say that the performance of cars in that time sucked cause ever since then performance has gone way up, but they lack affordability and aftermarket support.