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Originally Posted by fatoni
i think the premise that the ae86 was inferior is off base. by todays standards its trash but at the time, it cost more than a mustang gt. it wasnt a cheap car and it did well performance wise. a 1.6 liter making 110-130 hp while that cheaper mustang was making 210 out of a 5.0 was pretty impressive. i think the philosophy of the two cars is very much in line. i dont know how many people in this thread have actually owned both but i can see the dna.
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No doubt the performance versions of the AE86 were pretty scarce but so were the performance versions of the Mustang. When comparing the two it has to be remembered that
most people's exposure back then would be the far, far more common base models. As I have said before I know nothing of the AE but have little doubt that the base model would have blown the doors off the base Mustang in all aspects of performance. The base and intermediate models of the Foxbody Mustang sucked so bad that they almost killed the model for good.