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For me every 'stang == meh. I've just never cared about straight line speed. On a road course the straight is just the boring part between the good bits.
Please drop the old, very outdated thinking that American muscle cars don't handle. They can and have been able to for nearly 30 years now.
Unless you can beat an M3, you can't beat a new Stang either:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOwSPccbzl4
I wouldn't exactly call 370Zs rare, either.
BTW RaceTripper, the Stang does that with a crusty old solid rear axle, not the IRS that the BMW has. He also notes that the Stang has more torque without winding itself way out like the BMW which winds out but just doesn't have the pull, the Stang feels more balanced (not much you can do about that on the M3), and the BMW has better shocks (meaning a simple shock swap--which anyone serious would do, probably as the very first mod--would put the Mustang ahead of the BMW alone). Considering the Americans can get this kind of performance out of a $30k car with a live axle, it doesn't say much for the BMW IMO.
It gets so, so old listening to import guys who've never so much as sat behind the wheel of an American RWD car bash American cars year-in, year-out for not being able to handle when they've clearly been able to do so for the last 3 decades. They've also gotten 25 mpg+ for the last three decades as well. I see this all the time, but nobody can ever site a source for why they are so sure American cars suck at handling.
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