SVTdriver
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Yeah I still don't really like magazines doing racing. Some magazines have done pretty poor with mustangs.
stangbear427 said:Here's the rundown from SVT and Subaru handing the Hotrod journalists the keys to both:
Mustang Cobra
List price: $33,125
1/4mi: 13.30 seconds @109.0mph (altitude corrected)
Road Course: 1:22.7 seconds
Top speed: 155mph (electronically limited)
Subaru WRX STi
List price: $30,995
1/4mi: 13.29 @100.5mph (altitude corrected)
Road Course: 1:21.0 seconds
Top speed: 145mph
This was the last paragraph:
"Ready for a shock? Our testers were split down the middle after logging a long weekend in each of these cars, and even if we had to declare a winner, we'd be hard pressed to do it. As we said at the start, the Subaru is the Cobra's equal at the drags, it's superior on the road course, and the cheaper of the two. And considering it's traction disadvantage, in a street race with the STi, the Cobra would probably lose. But the lure of the Cobra's grunting V-8 and classic rear wheel drive configuration are hard to shake for those of us raised with the perception that nothing less will do. No two cars put the old school/ new school debate in sharper focus than the Cobra and the STi. So let the arguing begin."
stangbear427 said:Here's the rundown from SVT and Subaru handing the Hotrod journalists the keys to both:
Mustang Cobra
1/4mi: 13.30 seconds @109.0mph (altitude corrected)
Steeda90GT said:It's not the 350Z thing that bothers me, but the FBody has had a 6 speed since 93!!!
Point is, do you want to find yourself getting beat by one because you wrote it off as "still a SUBARU"? Your post here just added some oomph to that point- you won't want to tell your friends. Tell them you got cleaned by a Vette, another stang, whatever- but you don't want to have to say you lost to one of these. Don't get caught with your pants down! They are fast, and even with the fastest production Mustang in history you can still get took by one of these '04 WRiceX's if you make one little slip- they're that quick.xtrm281gt said:who really cares what those magazine guys think or how bad they drive the mustang in comparison. No matter what they say it's still a SUBARU... a 1965 beetle with a porshe motor may whoop some ass at the racetrack but it doesn't mean that I would ever want to be caught driving one. I mean honestly if given the choice would you really want the nice new mustang cobra or the subaru. The cobra is still the better car
SVTdriver said:Yeah got to remember. Hot Rod more likely should be renamed Chevy only. So when you have a chevy guy driving a ford. You know he's going to go slow.
It damwell better go away when the '06 Cobra comes out66Satellite said:But the Subaru/Cobra comparisons should go away when the 2006 Cobra comes out.