The cheapest M car is the M2 coupe and it starts at 55k (with destination, topped out its 65.4k and the only real advantage over the Mustang is a DSG trans) where the topped out Mustang GT premium with PP2 and Recaros with special paint and stripe costs 55k and would curb stomp the M2 on any given day of the week…

Ford’s stability control is pretty good and combine that with mag-ride and a Torsen and the car handles pretty damn well (loves to rotate and doesnt do anything unexpected and gobbles up FIA curbing at VIR at over 100 mph like a boss! - much to the dismay of my instructor who was an old guy that had been in a few…

Mustangs handle pretty good and if you can’t drive an M6 5.0 because it doesnt have “usable” torque then that’s a “well here’s your sign” moment.

Well you can get a T4 M6 with mag-ride (trust me you want that unless you plan on ruining the car with say a set of coil overs or some other silly shit like air bags) for just under 33k. Snagging the mag-ride also gets you the performance package which includes summer tires, base GT brakes, and a Torsen. It will be a…

That’s an interesting bit of advice from your mom? I can certainly understand when discretion is the better part of valor but sometimes the bullies need to be on the receiving end of a major fucking beat down.

Ford doesnt do glory runs - they never have. The GT that was out at VIR for example wasn’t there to set a hot lap it was for diagnostic work. Billy Thompson was the driver (and video source) and said as much so he wasn’t pushing the car hard at all by comparison and eclipsed the Viper ACR’s time.

BoP… organizers aren’t interested in a single car dominating the field. Nutswingers would enjoy the non-stop show but regular spectators would tire of watching a single marque dominate a class and either tune out or just pretend the lead car didn’t exist and watching the racing at 2nd place and below.

Rearview mirror was a mandate by the Deuce so team Ferrari could see the shit-eating grin of the GT40 driver as they quickly pulled away.

Heh... reminds me of a few times when a parent came in looking at tires for a fox Mustang GT and I shit you not said... “I’m looking at getting my kid a car are these any good?”

Sadly it wont mean shit. Gun control laws are largely ineffective when the states around them dont give two fucks about it.

They are just really good pads for everything from driving on the street to just short of wheel to wheel racing at the track. The braking system on the GT350 is superb and you can literally back the car out of the garage - drive to the road course and hot lap the car and not worry about the pads or brakes then pack it…

Within reason at both ends of course. A 45 aspect ratio is perfectly acceptable on tires with a section width starting at 255 and up since it still provides a reasonable amount of sidewall along with say a 35 series tire in a width of 295 or greater.

Its coming to an end just like drunk driving - maybe not on a timetable most bureaucrats and safety advocates want but in the not so distant future when cars no longer have steering wheels or pedals and you tell it where you want to go (including the weekend C&C to show off your transport cube) the war will be over…

Keep your PSSS’es for daily driving and get this Sport Cups for the track days! That’s my plan at least.

Yes apparently the flat-plane crank doesn’t get high marks in the OE reliability department when very high axial loads are applied  (apparently the reason why Ford doesn’t want to do an FPC SC engine).

Since the kinja editor is being a fucking asshole...

Drove my GT350 in august for nearly an hour straight at Dominion Raceway in Virginia - no Z06 like overheating issues and the motor was still tight with only 1,000 miles on it.  

GT350 actually suffers bad from trammeling.

Sweet Challenger GIF! don’t know why you have it in a GT350 thread.

Well the GT350 uses proprietary rear tire sizes. When you go to the Rack and look up tires for the standard GT350 (2016-2018) you only get one option and that is Michelin.