Up and close with new GT, I don't know

eillob · #1 02-05-2005, 12:46 AM

Well I got a chance to get a real upclose look at the new Mustang GT tonight at the auto show. Sorry guys no pics I forgot the camera.
Its a very good buy for $27K. The headers on this thing are very funky. There webbed together and tucked very tightly against the block on the drivers side and just barely misses the steering linkage. I wasn't crazy about that, I'd like to see somebody try to attempt to make a header. I don't see it without some extreme modification.

Now as much as I liked the new Mustang its gonna get its lunch eaten by the new GTO. Now don't everyone get pissed because Im not a GTO fan. But lets face it HP is HP and the 2005 is gonna be putting down 400HP stock.

Thats right its powered by the exact same LS2 motor in the Vette. Priced at $33K thats ugly.

silverstangs · #2 02-05-2005, 11:52 AM

I'm not too worried about the GTO,

and yeah that header is TIGHT, but there really is not much room to do anything with that. I kinda think Ford compensated for that with the mandrel bent tubing they used.

Muscletang · #3 02-05-2005, 02:04 PM

2007 SVT Cobra 460 HP 480 lb torque $35,000
GTslOw

HighRev87 · #4 02-05-2005, 02:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Muscletang

2007 SVT Cobra 460 HP 480 lb torque $35,000
GTslOw

Exactly what I was thinking.

DanF · #5 02-05-2005, 03:25 PM

New ZO6 has a 427 (LS-7?) I think thats puts out 500hp and 475 torque.... I know its a vette, but soon the new camaro comes out... I heard 2006 somewhere but I think thats wrong. But I wouldn't be too surprised if that engine made it on the SS camaros. I woudl like to see, not because I'm a chevy fan, just because I like to the oldschool type horsepower wars coming back.

TheStang00 · #6 02-05-2005, 04:22 PM

anyone else read that car&driver article compairing the 05 GT to the GTO?

M3FordBoy · #7 02-05-2005, 05:53 PM

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Originally Posted by TheStang00

anyone else read that car&driver article compairing the 05 GT to the GTO?

No, but I read the one in Auto Week and the GTO is a little faster, but they took the Mustang over it because of price, handling and style pretty much the only things the GTO won in the artical was the acceleration stuff everything esle was the Mustang.

Doesn't the '06 or '07 SVT Cobra get shown at the NewYork auto show in late March early Apirl?

TheStang00 · #8 02-05-2005, 05:59 PM

i forgot exactly what mag it was, that was prolly it.

FormulaLT1 · #9 02-05-2005, 06:39 PM

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Originally Posted by DanF

New ZO6 has a 427 (LS-7?) I think thats puts out 500hp and 475 torque.... I know its a vette, but soon the new camaro comes out... I heard 2006 somewhere but I think thats wrong. But I wouldn't be too surprised if that engine made it on the SS camaros. I woudl like to see, not because I'm a chevy fan, just because I like to the oldschool type horsepower wars coming back.

I have been hearing 2007 for years now but at this point its all rumors. A few years back everyone was saying for 05 and we all see how true that is. Also I would take the new mustang over a GTO price and looks wise too but anyone thats raced one can hardly call them slow.

Rod&Custom · #10 02-06-2005, 10:00 AM

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I like to the oldschool type horsepower wars coming back.

Same here. I really like the GTO, and think it is great that the auto manufacturers are having such a big horsepower war. The only difference is that gas prices are sky high, and this time the hp war is with small blocks, but that isn't a problem with todays small blocks. I can't afford any of them since I am still a high school student, but think it is great that it is going on. I do a lot of documentery-watching, and article-reading about those days, and feel like I am living it(in a sense).

Mendari · #11 02-07-2005, 12:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Rod&Custom

The only difference is that gas prices are sky high, and this time the hp war is with small blocks,

I test drove the 2005 Mustang GT and the Mitsubishi Evo 8.
The mustang was fast, but it was a little too heavy and could use another 75hp.
The Evo was insanely fast but had a wild torque curve because of the turbocharger running at 19 psi.
However, once Vortech starts making kits for the Mustang......

Laxxplyr · #12 02-07-2005, 01:35 PM

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Originally Posted by FormulaLT1

I have been hearing 2007 for years now but at this point its all rumors. A few years back everyone was saying for 05 and we all see how true that is. Also I would take the new mustang over a GTO price and looks wise too but anyone thats raced one can hardly call them slow.

I was sure that I had heard the last Camaro/Trans Am/firebird that came of the line was to be the last one?????

Wasnt the Cobalt suppossed to take the Camaro's place as corvettes little brother????

You gotta love the guys at GM/Ford for thinking of ways to make a 500 HP car that sells with todays gas prices....

I think we should just turn the Middle East into the United States Mid-Eastern parking section, take the oil, and then everyone could run a 427 in their car......

TheStang00 · #13 02-07-2005, 02:55 PM

[quote]New ZO6 has a 427 (LS-7?) I think thats puts out 500hp and 475 torque.... I know its a vette, but soon the new camaro comes out... I heard 2006 somewhere but I think thats wrong. But I wouldn't be too surprised if that engine made it on the SS camaros.

i think theyll increase the power to since thats the trend nowadays, but i think theres a better chance that they would put the 400hp LS2 in it.

eillob · #14 02-07-2005, 07:50 PM

Well according to the Chevy people I talked to at the show. The Cobalt was built to replace the cavalier. There SS version of the Cobalt makes 205hp with its supercharged motor. One thing I noticed that was pretty interesting is that the Supercharged Saturn Ion and the SS Cobalt both share the exact same 205hp motor. I didn't know that unitl the show.

As far as the Corvette is concerned the Standard Vette is 400Hp and 400ft lb of torque out of a 6.0 motor. The Zo6 which has not come out yet is gonna have the 427 with 500hp. I asked about the camaro but everyone I talked to about it says GM has no plans on bringing it back. Maybe GM just wants to push Vettes, to have something that will outrun a 911 for $45K aint a bad deal.

73Eleanor · #15 02-09-2005, 05:13 AM

This reply is about the GTO. I don't think that they are that big of a problem for mustang owners. I don't know if any body read it or not but 'Muscle Mustang and Fast Fords' did an article 'MachI vs GTO' needless to say the 315hp aluminum 281 beat the 350hp GTO. Now with that said I believe that GT owners shouldn't have to do much upgrading to compete with a GTO. And from what i'm noticing in the area i live in, its all older people driving the GTO's which will probably never see a mod other than a cold air intake, which it might not even see that.

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