[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?

[CMC #37]

LOL! I have never heard of anyone buying a Mustang over an F-body for handling! My experience with driving one on the street was in a V6 auto version I rented, which was a poor excuse for a car both handling and power-wise. At least the F-bod V6 had power and handled decently. I am sure the V8 Mustang version is an improvement over what I drove, I did not like the seating position as well as the F-bod as far as performance went though. The Mustang is toned down to make it more palatable for the banal masses, this is why it survives.

In racing they push more than F-bods and I am told it takes more skill to drive one at the limit as they are also less forgiving than F-bods. In CMC we usually have less mods than folks on the street, so that is probably pretty "real" in the street sense. Most of my info comes from a buddy who has raced in and won consistenly with both marques. To the give F*rd credit, he did say that set-up of them was more tricky, however, once you got it driving it was sweet.

When it comes down to it, it is more expensive to set up a Mustang to handle than an F-bod, which is pretty good right out of the box as we all know here!

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