Let's be realistic here. 1st, the slalom displays handling ONLY, not braking or accelleration. The Z06 beats the EVO on the figure 8, which is really the test that best simulates road course performance. If you want a real picture of overall performance, look at the figure 8 results, forget the slalom. SECONDLY, the EVO is an extreme niche-market no-compromise handler. Ride, comfort, harshness, all of those considerations are pretty much ignored in the pursuit of g-forces. It's not for everybody, by a LONGSHOT (as evidenced by the piddly amount of EVO's that sell per-year). It is a car with a very narrow focus, for a certain type of enthusiast. The Cobra is not such a vehicle, it is much more "road car" by design than "club racer". If you lowered and more stiffly sprung a Cobra, bingo, it would probably be munching on the tail of the EVO in the figure 8, but the sacrifice to everyday comfort and driveability is not something SVT or its customers would even consider. Imagine a street Cobra that rode like an R-model, and you get the picture. Imagine a car that communicates every piece of lint on the road to your butt. But it handles
THAT'S the Evo. So, AGAIN, we have people coming on here INSISTING upon comparing apple cars to orange cars, and it's pointless bunk. Next thing you know, somebody will be on here talking about how the Lotus Elise will smoke the new Mustang on a road course, and we'll all be sitting here with a collective "HUH???" look on our faces, which is French for "who gives a ****". A year from now, the amount of people on this earth that will say "I was going to buy a 2005 GT Mustang, but I bought a Mitsu Evo instead" will be able to be counted on one hand...