I met up with one on the highway today. When he went by me and I noticed his plate, XLR82XS. (I guess that means accelerate to excess...) Okay, whatever....
Well, this car has won a lot of good reviews with words like "razor performance" (Motor Trend). Okay, it *does* have 290 horse and 275lbs of TQ, a 6-spd, aluminium everything....
Anyway, we both ran a good haul from 60mph to 100mph (100kph to 160kph). My
93GT is almost totally stock with a 5-spd and 2.73 gears. I thought for sure, losing 65 horse to this car, and with my gears, that he'd pull on me. Well, the bottom line is that I pulled on him. Not much, but I did. And I never took it out of 3rd gear.I know for some reason my 93 is the fastest 5.0 I've had... it's just got a lot of get-up-and-go. But seriously, if that's the best these expensive high horsepower cars can do against some relic like a Fox-bodied GT, I'm keeping my 5.0 forever... Gawd, just think if I ever actually did something to it.
Anyone else ever run against this car? I for one was pleasantly surprised.
Brad S