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Mustangs are great drag cars but terrible handling cars and with the plethora of speed parts available it's not uncommon to see 10-11 sec Mustangs running around but they'll never out corner your P-car. I think the WRX is about the same. Besides you were going non-turbo against turbo both with relatively small displacement, let him take on a 930 and see who gets spanked. The truth is a good handling suspension is terrible for drag racing and a good drag suspension is impossible to corner with. We P-car owners with our 30 year old technology losing to new cars probably feel no worse than the old hemi/bigblock guys losing to Mustangs and Grand Nationals a few years back. I'll start to worry when a naturally aspirated small displacement car can smoke my old P-car in a straight line AND around a corner. Besides that look at old Vettes, most people love them because well they have timeless beauty, just like the 911 series. The WRX and others don't have that charactor.
Old 08-01-2002, 03:36 PM
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