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So I was thinking about all the performance cars that have come out since the modern performance era began in the mid 80's so I thought I'd throw out some interesting facts.
Who remembers when the viper was launched? I remember going to the autorama in Houston and seeing a '92 red RT/10 sitting there in disbelief at how wide and just completely insane it was. 400HP!
How about the ZR-1. 7000 rpm! In '89 it was as fast as a damn Countach.
The 90's Japanese sports car like the NSX with 270HP, the RX7 255 etc.
Funny thing that a brembo GT would smash all of these cars today.
Back then I had my trusty 5.0 and spent my time TERRORIZING the streets. I received no less than 4 drag racing tickets in that car over a summer. I think I went through 5 or so t-5s (It got to the point where I could swap on of those things in an hour it seemed). Oh how times have changed.
Think about this for a minute. We are about to receive mustangs with straight up race engines in them. 450 hp 7500 rpm and completely bullet proof that will have perfect street manners, get great gas mileage etc.
Who would have thought back then that we would ever see a time when Ford would develop a special edition mustang along side/within a race program and then actually let you buy it?
Who remembers when the viper was launched? I remember going to the autorama in Houston and seeing a '92 red RT/10 sitting there in disbelief at how wide and just completely insane it was. 400HP!
How about the ZR-1. 7000 rpm! In '89 it was as fast as a damn Countach.
The 90's Japanese sports car like the NSX with 270HP, the RX7 255 etc.
Funny thing that a brembo GT would smash all of these cars today.
Back then I had my trusty 5.0 and spent my time TERRORIZING the streets. I received no less than 4 drag racing tickets in that car over a summer. I think I went through 5 or so t-5s (It got to the point where I could swap on of those things in an hour it seemed). Oh how times have changed.
Think about this for a minute. We are about to receive mustangs with straight up race engines in them. 450 hp 7500 rpm and completely bullet proof that will have perfect street manners, get great gas mileage etc.
Who would have thought back then that we would ever see a time when Ford would develop a special edition mustang along side/within a race program and then actually let you buy it?