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Originally Posted by Sm@ck
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Originally Posted by blah
i dont get ur corvette analogy/  |
I am sorry, I am not a native english speaker. What I meant to say with the analogy.
Right now the Ford concept, is like a Porsche GT-3, or BMW M3 CSL, these cars are reduced to the minimum (actually the Ford concept takes it further, no carpets, etc...). So they really have a very light sports car.
However I believe that if they will sell/produce the car, the car will end up more like a Corvette or Porsche 911. In that from teh outside the car will still look similiar, but the inside will be made a lot more comfortable, less raw. They will add more comfortable seats, and possibly aircoditoning etc. This however will make the car more heavier, and make this car less sporty, imo. It will appear to a greater crowd, but would make the car less intresting for me. |
But that
is the whole point of the Z06 and the 911 Turbo and the F360 - fantastic performance
while retaining enough user friendlyness - making them usable as daily drivers[.
Remember the GT-R Mustang is a "race car version" of the street Mustang - which even in GT form is overweight and is not best handeling coupe on the road.
You have you analogy backwards - the fact that they have to take the Mustang and strip it completely bare of all usable features and modify it into a "race car" just to compete (performance wise) with the likes of the Z06 and 911 Turbo and F360 actually show how good the Z06 and 911 and 360 are in those terms.
This does not detract from the GT-R being a nice car - it is just the reality of using the Mustang as the base for "super car performance".
The last full race-spec Cobra-R in 2000 is the same story - they had to hand-build 300 cars that were essentially street legal GT race cars - just to get a Mustang that could compete with the Viper GTS and the Z06.
Make sense?