GT500 or 2012 SVT Boss?*


* What we hear about Boss Mustang.

-Being developed by SVT
-Will have weight reduction
-Will be set up for great handling/braking
-3500-ish pounds
-HO version of 5.0L Coyote, 425-450 hp.

 

Maybe both?

 

He's dead Jim.....

Seriously, the Z is going to be a 4xxx lb supercharged 550 hp car, that's a GT500 all the way. While the Boss sounds awesome, it ain't happening w/ Camaro on this architecture, we all know it. You have 3 options....

1. Hot cam a Camaro and add the pedders suspension to fix the handling
2. Buy a Boss
3. Wait for Alpha (if Camaro survives)

lol, I should start my own poll on that!

 

 

Isn't this like the 6th poll you've done asking the same question, just in a different way or with different options?

 

If you don't get the answer you want...try, try again!

He gets an A for effort

 

id say neither. lets looks beyond the mustang and go for something like the M3 or the audi S5

 

Not really. The other one is a year and a half old, before we knew anything about the Boss Mustang.

 

M3 base price = $56K. While competing with an M3 may be an aspirational goal, M3 is not directed at the same audience as Camaro, and it should not be. Granted a fully optioned Z28 is likely to get within 10K of the M3's base price, but the two cars will always play to two different audiences.

 

M3 vs CTS-V coupe?
M3 vs any Camaro?

 

the gt500 comes in quite a few thousand more than the ss and they still compare them. i think they would be concidered in the same class. even if the z28 is mid 40's base model, a fully loaded could be around mid 50's. right there with the m3. both geared toward performance in their manufacturers lineup. both of these cars (m3 and s5) were in my mind when picking what car i was going to get.

 

Splitting hairs. Substitute Boss Mustang for M3 and it's basically the same poll.

We know what the premise has been in these polls, do you prefer

A) Lighter, slightly tuned, better handling
B) Heavier, uber-horsepower, straight line warrior

But as someone else said, I do admire your persistance.

 

i choose A

 

While you are probably right, it still sucks...

 

I cannot deny that I am in fact a persistant ****.

Some comments though. Remember when alot of people started freaking out at even the thought of comparing an M3 to a future Z/28 package? Why? Dunno. Maybe they were afraid that fancy Italian loafers would be required with Z/28 ownership, if certain world class attributes were benchmarked? jg95z28 still gets fairly apoplectic when the topic comes up.

There is a BIG difference between benchmarking something good and becoming that thing. Had GM seriously benchmarked something like the M3 back then, (instead of having 2007 GT500 derangement syndrome), would we have gotten a "Boss type package" for the Camaro, impeccably time for 2012? We'll never know.


BTW, benchmarking the M3 can't be that crazy - Mustang did it. And I'm sure with good result.