[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?

[1LEThumper]

2)  I find it very telling that the new 05 Mustang basically has an f-body rear suspension.  Yes there are some minor differences, but overall it's very close to what we already have.  My guess is that the Ford engineers were told "We're going to use a live axle", and they then decided to find the best live axle design they could, and start engineering from that point.  To me the 05 Mustang setup really looks like a bunch of engineers took the f-body design and tried to improve on it.

Yeah, and the current TransAm race cars use the same 3 link setup in their cars as well. So its not really a 'copy' of a F car design. Along with that, it is a tad bit different 3 link than the long tq arm of the F car and shock location is much different as well. But yes they are both 3 link cars.