How about matching price tags, then? Lets load the Mustang up with all the performance goodies that the approximately $25k price difference nets me - race compound rubber, vastly upgraded brakes, stiffer suspension, etc, etc, etc. Hell, I won't even make any changes to the engine.

The standard M3 wears Michelin Pilot Sport PS2 tires in 245 and 265 widths, front and rear.

Boss 302 Laguna Seca ~$46k.
M3 (base) ~$60k.

You're going to quibble about 0.1 second, which is easily attributed to cheaper, less sticky tires on the Mustang?

Oh, also, the Mustang that nearly beat the M3 (lost on a road course by 0.1 sec) was the GT, not the Boss 302 or Boss 302 Laguna Seca.

No, the M3's equivalent is at least two Mustang GTs.

Yes, but the question is whether Ford's penny pinching accountants have learned their lesson, or not.

The cost of adding it to a chassis is somewhat irrelevant when the cost of the actual components are much higher. The IRS in the Cobra didn't break because it was retrofit onto a chassis not designed for it, it broke because they used cheap components to keep the cost down. I'm, frankly, worried about the same thing…

He's saying that the IRS will be compromised to keep costs down, similar to the IRS in the 03' - 04' Terminator Cobra. Many of those cars have been converted to live axles because the components that Ford used were cheap, and broke easily. Heck, Chevy did the same thing with the new Camaro, and early models were…

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Tell that to the IRS-equipped M3. That the live axle-equipped Mustang GT came close to beating on a road course.

Got it. Thanks for the explanation. I knew that both the Ford and Chevy engines were OHV, despite Ford not building a pushrod V8 in...10 years? 20?

I love the individual carbon fiber throttle bodies!

Agreed. I told my wife when I saw the pictures, this is the only part of the design I don't like.

Good pickup! I hadn't even thought of that!

Why yes, yes it is.

My son is in the 99th percentile for both height and weight, and at 18 months, 37", and 33 pounds, he's both massive and a twig! Tight end is my thought, as his height chart shows him with an 80% chance to be 6'7" or greater.

Except for the fact that the passenger compartment is cockpit tight, there's no rear seat, and the trunk is laughable.

Got a 'D' model tattooed on my left forearm, partially because it's the best prop fighter ever built, and partially because it's an ode to my Mustang (the car) penchant.

Definitely. No badge on the side means V6. Time might have gotten permission to release the V6, but the GT is a different story.