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Old 04-26-2011, 04:51 PM
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How do you figure? The GT500 costs less than the M3, doesn't it? So what's pathetic about trailing it by a couple of seconds on a track? Road tests show it edges the BMW from 0-60.

I won't be buying either, so I have no pony in this race (pardon the pun), but I fail to see what's "pathetic."
The point is they had to build a specific track oriented mustang just so they could generate some press about their comparison with a regular M3 when nobody in the history of human kind has ever cross shopped a mustang and an M3. Thats pathetic. The M3 crowd could care less what the mustang did around a track and vice versa.

We already know about the Mustang's Chinese built 6 speed manual with syncros made of butter, now this complete brake failure thing. Whats next?

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Old 04-26-2011, 04:58 PM
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The point is they had to build a specific track oriented mustang just so they could generate some press about their comparison with a regular M3 when nobody in the history of human kind has ever cross shopped a mustang and an M3. Thats pathetic. The M3 crowd could care less what the mustang did around a track and vice versa.

We already know about the Mustang's Chinese built 6 speed manual with syncros made of butter, now this complete brake failure thing. Whats next?
OK, suit yourself. Maybe you should take your complaint up with MotorTrend, since they did the comparo.
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Old 04-26-2011, 05:20 PM
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I'd love an M3, but I don't drive like an @$$hole so it's probably out.
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Old 04-26-2011, 07:23 PM
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Problem is to own an M3 you have to be a cock, Top Gear proved it.
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While not Mustang based, FoMoCo's profit report was rather rosy.

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