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Originally Posted by SVTSHC
His comment makes plenty of sense. Look at the pricing on the 5.0 and the SS. Look at the track times the cars have been putting up. Look at the interior and notice it isn't the cheap plastic interior of yesteryear. Look at the ungodly horsepower offered by both. They are priced entirely too low for what you're getting.
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I gave up on this thread long ago so I never replied to this old post, but since the discussion became somewhat interesting again with updated info on the GC, I might as well:
SVTSHC, I'm not sure why you responded with that given that my issue was with his notion that the Mustang and Camaro handle entirely too well to be considered sports cars (I thought that was obvious since I
replied to him "Both offer great grip and competent handling. But I'm bewildered that someone would say they handle too well to be considered sports cars.")
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Originally Posted by cassidy0998
When the track was soaking wet.
There's footage shot from the interior while it's going around a track squealing the tires, but not really drifting. Every now and then it will do a quick little slide, but it never powers through a substantial curve.
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Watching the GC video that
you posted, it's clear that (as expected) the GC has plenty of power to swing the back end around, and it does it reasonably gracefully for some of the drifts. But for others it's unsettled as the car plows and shifts its heft somewhat inelegantly. That's not a criticism of the GC... just an observation that the car appears to behave exactly as one would expect, given its size and weight.
Having written that, it's also true that you're not going to be able drift a stock FT86 as easily as on a dry track as they were on that wet track a couple months back, and in the dry it's not going to be as smooth. Still it looks to have more poise than the GC (again, as expected).
Also noteworthy is that though it's common to associate drifting with long slides maintained by gobs of power (especially in motorsports), there are many other types of drifts.
BTW, thanks for posting that GC video.