I love his reaction at the end of the video. He's just like, "...well darn."

Yeah, the handling of the Z is in no way comparable to the pony cars. They feel like trucks by comparison.

I'll sell my non-rust bucket GT-S for $6k!

All I can say is, Ford must not sell many cars in Germany.

The Recaros are honestly a bit much. I'd probably ditch them with my next 'Stang.

You can't go wrong with any of those.

>But they did manage to put the cupholders out of the way of your arm when shifting.

Congrats on being wrong and ignoring empirical evidence contrary to your beliefs.

No, because the 15% is nonsense perpetuated people who don't know better. You can't use a fixed percentage to calculate crank HP from wheel HP — it doesn't work that way.

How is this better than a BOSS 302?

How are you sure that it wasn't fake?

Hint: It would still get its ass kicked. It' down by over 100 hp and the SN-95 was a horrible, floppy chassis. It's best iteration is going to be worse than just a 1LE Camaro, much less ever think to compete with the Z/28.

He wants a brand new car, that he doesn't plan on keeping around, for a 500 mile per month commute? That's silly, it would take like 20+ years to use up a cars life at that rate.

For my Mustang, I went a little nuts and avoided the V8. This is an EcoBoost Premium with the performance pack in Deep Impact Blue. It has a manual trans, 19 inch wheels, Recaro seats, and HID headlights. Price comes out to $35,380.

See, the events that I go to are on an oval race track with an in-field, like in the video. People can and do hit the walls all the time because the speeds are quite high.

When I hear those, I wonder what car is worth $1,500? Any decent and reliable car will fetch at least $2,500, the people driving around dilapidated hoopties are the ones that couldn't get financed for a new car anyway — otherwise they wouldn't be driving a hoopty.

Loss as a percentage of power is a complete bullshit approach though. Most of the power train loss is fixed, for example, wheels, driveshafts, flywheels, etc all sap the same amount of power regardless of the output of the engine. If you crank the boost up on a car, the wheels don't magically sap more power. The…

Cheap?

I go to amateur drive events all the time and I've never seen a new car on the track. I actually don't remember seeing anything newer than 2000 except for maybe an F-Body.

"That will buff right out," is colloquy for, "it's fucked up." He didn't say it in a sarcastic manner, he actually sounded disappointed, speechless and didn't know what else to say. It sounded like he was just trying to cheer his friend up.