[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]

Let me put it this way, handling wise a Mustang:

1. Is the only car I know of that you can lower and actually make it handle worse.
2. Has a crappy 4 link rear suspension straight off a 79 Ford Fairmont station wagon
3. Has a rear swaybar that doesn't attach to the chassis anywhere

That said they can be made to handle pretty well, but it takes alot of $$$ to get there. Were as we only really need to tweak our suspension they practically have to re-engineer theirs.

The 05's look to be a vast improvement though.

Brakes are also important to any good handling car... have you seen the rear rotors on Mustangs? I've seen bigger donuts! (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/rotf.gif)