DubbsFaris
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I drink the koolaid of the GT500 as much as anyone I know, but I have heard that it was a cool day on the track, and indeed the speed was reached with a little over a 30 mph tailwind. All you need is a 8 mile circle to do it...LOL
The fact that there were mitigating circumstances is not really the point here though. The point is that a stock GT500, under the right conditions, is capable of 200+. Think about that for a minute. The Mustang is a muscle car, a brute. To take something with little to no thought in high speed drag resistance, and reverse engineer a stable and fun car to drive at even 170, is pretty amazing. I have been scared shitless doing 150 in a Corvette, because the damn thing felt like it was a pebble away from going airborne. I was wanting to see if my 2008 GT500 would go faster at 170, still firmly planted to the ground. It is an amazing achievement to see a turnkey mustang break the 200s in any condition, or beat a M3 around Laguna Seca, or see a sub 11 second 1/4 mile. (GT500, BOSS LS, Cobra Jet)
....a fox body wouldnt do 140 it if you dropped it from the space station.
The fact that there were mitigating circumstances is not really the point here though. The point is that a stock GT500, under the right conditions, is capable of 200+. Think about that for a minute. The Mustang is a muscle car, a brute. To take something with little to no thought in high speed drag resistance, and reverse engineer a stable and fun car to drive at even 170, is pretty amazing. I have been scared shitless doing 150 in a Corvette, because the damn thing felt like it was a pebble away from going airborne. I was wanting to see if my 2008 GT500 would go faster at 170, still firmly planted to the ground. It is an amazing achievement to see a turnkey mustang break the 200s in any condition, or beat a M3 around Laguna Seca, or see a sub 11 second 1/4 mile. (GT500, BOSS LS, Cobra Jet)
....a fox body wouldnt do 140 it if you dropped it from the space station.
