[matthewgood]

A Dodge bias does exist to some extent. Top Gear featured the Camero, and while Clarkson hated it, they gave it an okay review. Now compare that to when the show came to the states and they had to buy an SRT8 because Dodge wouldn’t give them one. The first thing Clarkson asked as if the decals were real carbon fiber – which is ridiculous because if you’re going to make a freaking carbon fiber hood you’re going to do the whole hood for weight purposes, not stripes. He then pointed to the air intake and asked if it was ram air, and after finding out it wasn’t said they were useless. Of course, he had no idea that the intakes on the 70 challenger were exactly the same in primary function, which is just allowing air to flow into the engine compartment in general. They were functional in that regard, just as they are now on SRT8 models.

The new Boss 302, according to Car And driver, is 440 horse/ 380 lb-ft of torque. The 302 Laguna Seca is really the version of the car that’s impressive. Then again, it’s been stripped completely to be little more than two seats and an engine.

End of the day – it still looks like a modern Mustang, no matter what they do to the fascias and the colour. NOTHING looks as good as the Challenger, not even close. It retains the most amount of its heritage, and that, to me, is what makes it awesome.

As someone said, you can do a lot to the new engine, just as you can to most, to increase HP. Hell, if you wanted to you could get over 600 hp out of the car, redo the suspension and exhaust completely, etc, etc. Got the money, anything can be done.

 

[matthewgood]

Also, what's with car and driver doing a head to head with the 392 and a Shelby? Not the Mustang Shelby GT500 you can see on the Ford website - the one you send off to Shelby America. The price difference between the cars is enormous - the shelby is more than double the price of a 392 IE. It has specific performance parts added to it, the works. Who, in their right mind, thinks doing a piece with these two cars even makes sense? It's like taking that Shelby and putting it up against a Ferrari GTB 599 and saying that the shelby's okay but it just can't match the overall power and handling of the 599 - which is three times as much.

 

[matthewgood]

matthewgood, I watch top gear all the time and they made fun of the SRT8 challenger in many ways, some which you already mentioned, but to tell you the truth they made fun of the new ZR1 corvette too! And we all know that thing is just a machine! They just put down anything American made period.

He did, but he eventually came around about it. I mean, the truth is the ZR1 isn't even a muscle car. It can compete with European super cars, and it's 1/4th the price of most of them.