kevm14 wrote:
None of those Mustangs you linked to were even that good for what they cost.
Since you are comparing them to the cost and performance of the '03-'04 and '07-'09 Camaro?
Maybe its cheating to compare the Ford that they made with the GM that they didn't...
Comparing to what you can get in a Corvette, for example. Or how underwhelming the first gen of the DOHC 4.6 Cobras were compared to regular LS1s. Or that a base Corvette was as fast as the supercharged SVT Cobra of 2003-2004. At least in the latter case, the Mustang WAS cheaper than the Corvette, so those were a good deal for what you got.
kevm14 wrote: The early 2000s Cobra R with the 5.4 was famously trounced by the C5 Z06, and I think the Z06 was a bit cheaper.
I thought we were talking about Camaros.
Also, they only made the Cobra R in 2000. Which was a year before the Z06 was released.
Fair enough. But that one is solidly in the category of "cool if you like Mustangs." Like I said, it was MORE expensive than the 2001 Z06 and was inferior in every conceivable way.