No April Fools: 2013 Mustang GT500 delivers 650 Horsepower

I would love to just get behind the wheel of both and compare them. :) Also just found this on the carBUZZ app, '2012 Camaro First Car to Pass ALL NHTSA safety tests.' So we got a fast and safe car, or as safe as you can be going under 80 mph. :xyxthumbs: It seems there will be a lot of cars coming out in 2012, the new genesis coup, the scion FRS or Subaru BRZ, Camaro, Mustang, and BMW M5. I'm sure there are more that I missed. Cant wait to see all these in the show rooms!
 
^^ Not to be mean but i feel like your opinion is a bit biased since you do own a camaro by looking at your picture. The corvette and the mustang are not comparable cars anymore. The competitor to the mustang in today market is clearly the camaro. I mean you cant compare a 60K dollar car (mustang) and a 120K dollar car (corvette zr1). Even comparing the stang to the Z06 is a bit unfair as the Z06 is msrp at 75.5K. So in the battle between the camaro zl1 and the mustang gt500 is pretty obvious who the winner is. However I will agree with you that a hennessey performance camaro would beat the stang but I'm not so sure that they cost around the same price.
 
IOMCAMARO said:
Not really. For the price tag of one of these Mustangs, you can get a Corvette Z06 which will literally leave the Mustang in it's smoke. Chevy can't really make the Camaro ZL1 any better or else it'd over take the Corvette. If they'd get rid of the Corvette, which isn't gonna happen, they could make the Camaro way more powerful than that Mustang. And it's funny because Ford doesn't even make that car. All they make is the Chassis. Shelby and SVT made the rest of it. Hmmm sounds like Hennessey performance already makes a Camaro that would kill that snake for around the same price. :props:
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You're missing the point -- if GM had been able to get the ZL1 on dealer lots closer to when they let the cat out of the bag about performance specs/etc. Ford would have been lagging behind in terms of having a car that could crush it.
 
oneill24 said:
^^ Not to be mean but i feel like your opinion is a bit biased since you do own a camaro by looking at your picture. The corvette and the mustang are not comparable cars anymore. The competitor to the mustang in today market is clearly the camaro. I mean you cant compare a 60K dollar car (mustang) and a 120K dollar car (corvette zr1). Even comparing the stang to the Z06 is a bit unfair as the Z06 is msrp at 75.5K. So in the battle between the camaro zl1 and the mustang gt500 is pretty obvious who the winner is. However I will agree with you that a hennessey performance camaro would beat the stang but I'm not so sure that they cost around the same price.
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Since when are GT500s only 60k. I know they run in like the 80k figure for the top of the line one. And I may seem biased, but I don't dislike Mustangs, I like all muscle cars. I'm just saying that if I was gonna pick up a newer one it wouldn't be a Mustang. Too many of them that looks a like on the road. When are they gonna change that body style? I still feel that Dodge did the best job on the resto of the Challenger. I just got a Camaro because that is what I wanted at the time. It looks good sitting next to our other Camaro.
 
Shiny Lil Detlr said:
You're missing the point -- if GM had been able to get the ZL1 on dealer lots closer to when they let the cat out of the bag about performance specs/etc. Ford would have been lagging behind in terms of having a car that could crush it.
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I see what you're saying. If the ZL1 would have came out a year and a half ago it would have crushed any Mustang on the road. The 2013 Mustang will only hold it's place for one year as in 2014 Chevy Camaros are going to a smaller platform like the 2002-2006 GTOs were. I still just don't see this Mustang being that much faster than the ZL1 because we all know how government regs are.
 
IOMCAMARO said:
Since when are GT500s only 60k. I know they run in like the 80k figure for the top of the line one. And I may seem biased, but I don't dislike Mustangs, I like all muscle cars. I'm just saying that if I was gonna pick up a newer one it wouldn't be a Mustang. Too many of them that looks a like on the road. When are they gonna change that body style? I still feel that Dodge did the best job on the resto of the Challenger. I just got a Camaro because that is what I wanted at the time. It looks good sitting next to our other Camaro.
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Sorry to say buddy but you can see a big difference between a regular v6 mustang and a GT500. HUGE difference in looks. Also, the 5.0 looks a lot different than both the v6 and the GT500. The front end looks a lot different in the GT500 than the rest of the mustangs. From what ive seen, the camaros dont really have a huge aspect difference from a v6 to the SS. But maybe that just me, because they look very...very similar and often mistaken a v6 from an SS.
 
IOMCAMARO said:
I see what you're saying. If the ZL1 would have came out a year and a half ago it would have crushed any Mustang on the road. The 2013 Mustang will only hold it's place for one year as in 2014 Chevy Camaros are going to a smaller platform like the 2002-2006 GTOs were. I still just don't see this Mustang being that much faster than the ZL1 because we all know how government regs are.
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I wouldn't hold my breath for 2014 if I were you.... with all the development dollars they put into the ZL1 on Zeta, there's no way they're going to build only one or two model years worth of them and suddenly have to go back to the drawing board with the 6th-gen Alpha car.

Besides, they're busy shaking all the bugs out of the new platform using its counterpart, the Cadillac ATS.
 
The new Mustang's and Camaro's are absolutely incredible and will always have their place in my garage. That said; they may possess 650+hp they pale in every respect to the ZR1 Corvette....

It's great to advertise 600hp, 800hp, or even 1000hp but designing a car capable of utilizing this amount of power efficiently, getting it to the ground, is a whole nother story.
 
Impressive but still a Chevy man, remember FORD means Fix Or Repair Daily! lol
 
93fox said:
Sorry to say buddy but you can see a big difference between a regular v6 mustang and a GT500. HUGE difference in looks. Also, the 5.0 looks a lot different than both the v6 and the GT500. The front end looks a lot different in the GT500 than the rest of the mustangs. From what ive seen, the camaros dont really have a huge aspect difference from a v6 to the SS. But maybe that just me, because they look very...very similar and often mistaken a v6 from an SS.
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There isn't much difference, looks wise, between the V6 and V8 Camaro, both with the RS package. The SS has a fake ram air scoop on the front fascia, where the V6 doesn't. I don't like the scoop but it doesn't bother me that my car and the V6 look similar.
 
Yancy said:
Impressive but still a Chevy man, remember FORD means Fix Or Repair Daily! lol
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Hopeless
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Very interesting comments on here so far.

All I can say is that the new GT500 should definitely give some Vette owners a run for their money. Also from reading a few articles, it seems Ford may have finally figured out how to get that power to the ground.


2013 is just minor tweaks for the Mustang in general. 2014 should be the big year for some changes as it marks the 50th anniversary. One of the major changes possibly being IRS. Can't say I'm a fan of IRS in a muscle car, but times have changed.

That being said, I would buy a GT500 in a hearbeat without hesitation.:xyxthumbs:
 
Yancy said:
Impressive but still a Chevy man, remember FORD means Fix Or Repair Daily! lol
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:D

There are a few others I have heard over the years ...

Found On Roadside Dead
F**** Over Rebuild Dodge


All in good fun Im the MAN
 
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