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Sunday, March 28, 2010



The news is starting to trickle out.  I cannot wait for the avalanche of great news tomorrow.
Journalists alternately lined up to drive both cars trying different launch techniques, and when the dust settled, every scribe to a man (and woman) had a fistful of timeslips to prove that the Mustang was faster—and by a substantial margin. Yeah, even the Mexicans, who had no “horse” in the race. My best ET in the Camaro was an 8.82 at 83 mph—which turned out to be one of the best for the day. Not bad, but in the Mustang, I managed an 8.62 at 86 mph. In the theoretical quarter-mile—and given the traction limitations of the airport’s untreated surface (and no water and no burnouts allowed)—that’s roughly 13.80 for the Camaro and 13.50 for the Mustang. Other journalists faired similarly. But the plot thickens. Read more...
This article eludes to what I think to be Edmunds/InsideLine, sneaking off with a 5.0 to dyno the now infamous 395 wheel horsepower results they achieved.

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