[Ackattack]

I was talking to a guy at work the other day, and the topic of cars came up, and he recently got an '04 Mustang GT. So during our discussion he was dogging on the F-body, and he admitted that I'd spank him in a drag race, but he bought the car for the handling not for drag racing.

So my question is do the GTs really handle any better than an F-body? I was under the impression that they both handled fairly equally, both are addequate and both can be improved on. I don't hear much talk about the rustangs handling, so I don't know much about them.

What is your feeling, knowledge, and/or experience with them handling wise in comparison to an F-body?

[SSTAT]

Its interesting he should say that. There are a lot of people on this site that could comment on this more qualified than myself, and of course if you were talking about modified cars that would be a whole different discussion, but I think you are talking about factory cars. All I can say is that I have read just about every article in hot rod, car and driver, road and track etc that compared mustang to camaro (and that's a lot). Most of them copped out on choosing one or the other as an overall winner, but most in the end said something like if they had to live with one evey day, they would choose the mustang, if they had to take one to the track, they'd take the f-bod. It would be interesting to just do a search and find factory skid pad numbers on each, track times (I know they are out there- and I think the camaro is persistently faster on the track) etc and have some numbers. I think because the mustang seating position, and suspension set up cater more to the average driver (this has been commented on as one of the major reasons the mustang has better sales, has survived etc) while the camaro has been more focused on performance (tigher suspension, less forgiving ride, more aggresive seating position - hense less sales to the general public). So I guess I don't know why he would say that, unless of course he just doesnt know what he is talking about. You could just get some numbers and hand them to him, along with his as*.