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IMO, lately GM cars performance numbers have been exagerated and fords have been underrated. I am a member of the GTOAA due to having a 67 GTO in the family. I wanted new goat bad when I heard the specs, until I saw what it looked like that is. Now I believe firmly that Lutz should be hung for putting it to market, and I encourage all of the owners of them to debadge them as soon as possible.

But anyway, looks aside, at the GTOAA meets, the new 400hp goats have trouble running mid thirteens. Most get up there and click off 13.7's 13.6's. Maybe a 13.4 once in a while. A bad launch will show up as a 14.

Guys with very dialed in cars with decent street tires on wider rims with some basic mods were in the very low 13's/ high 12's.

So regardless of the HP numbers, I would say it is a drivers race. Especially if he is stock and you have at least a tune and intake.

Even the new vettes, while faster than us for sure, arent running the 1/2 mile times that chevy proclaims. A tuning shop did an article in one of the vette magazines about it. They ended up testing two vettes with a few good drivers on a few different days with different weather. They still couldent hit chevys magic 1/4 times stock no matter what they did. They were a good 4 tenths away I believe.


If you do the math, IMO our mustangs have closer to 320-325hp stock and close to 370 at the crank with a tune and intake.