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Throughout history, Ford has really never made a Mustang that would whoop up on chevy's, except for the few years that the 5.0L was King of the Streets. So lets be honest here, how are we still complaining about chevy's winning in a drag stock vs. stock? Its been that way for almost 40 years now.
Ford has never been able to make a Mustang that can take out a Vette. Hell, even Shelby's GT500 didn't win in tests against the top Vette of the day. You can hardly be mad that Ford doesn't make a Vette Killer.
The Vette is created with the absolute best parts they can put on the car and still sell it for what they do. The Vette is an image builder for Chevy, so they go as far as they can, while still breaking even. Heck, Dodge loses money for every Viper they build (again, image builder.)
The Mustang is made to be sold at $18K, and go up from there. And Ford needs to make $ on it. So its plainly obvious that the Mustang's chasis will never be in the same catagory as the Vette's.
Finally Ford is building a Cobra worthy of the nameplate. The LS1's have been giving every performance vehicle that comes across its path on the streets a black eye. So finally, Ford is returning the punch. We all know that the 390 HP rating is probably conservative. I never see any SC'd 4V's with less then 450hp, and they don't even have the bottom end like this new Cobra is going to have. So I think it will be pretty common to see some 500+ hp cobra's running the street with only bolt on's.
The GT will probably stay the same power. Its at a real sweet spot in the price market right now.
Word is Ford may build the Mach 1 to take the Cobra's place at ~$29-30,000 range. With a solid axle and 300+ 4v power, it should do just fine.