Camaro SS vs SRT8 vs GT500?

[exdeath]

Should throw a 7 year old Terminator in there as a baseline to shake things up a little.

 

[AdamK47]

Originally posted by: exdeath
Should throw a 7 year old Terminator in there as a baseline to shake things up a little.

Those old things?

 

[Arkaign]

Originally posted by: zerocool84

Originally posted by: lsd

Originally posted by: thomsbrain
The SS is only 0.1 second slower than the GT500 to 60 MPH. Ford keeps claiming massive power figures for these GT500s, but they never put their performance where their mouth is.

As for the SRT8, a car with a 6.1 liter porker ought to be able to beat my 4-cylinder by more than 0.1 second to 60 MPH. What a fat tub of lard.

The SS is the car to have in this class, IMO.

0-60 is a horrible indicator for a high hp/tq car because driver ability to control the launch will affect the times greatly.
1/4 mile trap speed is where it's at, and the SS has been a solid 108-109mph while the GT500 has been around 113-118mph. That huge 5mph variance tells you there's traction problems.

Most people don't know that MPH shows how fast a car really is cus everyone just talks about time.

Well time is what wins, but what the MPH really shows in this case (and many similar cases), is that you could throw some hot and sticky drag slicks on the GT500 and there would be a whole new level of performance achieved, whereas the Camaro SS is probably already performing close to it's limits.

I agree about the Terminators, still a benchmark to measure against.

 

[lsd]

Originally posted by: Arkaign

Originally posted by: zerocool84

Originally posted by: lsd

Originally posted by: thomsbrain
The SS is only 0.1 second slower than the GT500 to 60 MPH. Ford keeps claiming massive power figures for these GT500s, but they never put their performance where their mouth is.

As for the SRT8, a car with a 6.1 liter porker ought to be able to beat my 4-cylinder by more than 0.1 second to 60 MPH. What a fat tub of lard.

The SS is the car to have in this class, IMO.

0-60 is a horrible indicator for a high hp/tq car because driver ability to control the launch will affect the times greatly.
1/4 mile trap speed is where it's at, and the SS has been a solid 108-109mph while the GT500 has been around 113-118mph. That huge 5mph variance tells you there's traction problems.

Most people don't know that MPH shows how fast a car really is cus everyone just talks about time.

Well time is what wins, but what the MPH really shows in this case (and many similar cases), is that you could throw some hot and sticky drag slicks on the GT500 and there would be a whole new level of performance achieved, whereas the Camaro SS is probably already performing close to it's limits.

I agree about the Terminators, still a benchmark to measure against.

The only thing magazine/e-zine 0-60 times are good for is benchracing.

 

[Arkaign]

Originally posted by: lsd

The only thing magazine/e-zine 0-60 times are good for is benchracing.

Agreed to some extent, but if you sample at least several, you get a good enough idea how the car runs on stock tires with an average to decent driver. When you get into specialist / high HP cars, I don't really trust mags / reviewers that much. Z06 can put down some truly evil times, but then you get jacktards like Autocar UK putting down times that are a magnitude slower than anyone has ever recorded.

As usual, the info can have some value, but needs to be taken in a general consensus with common sense and alternate sources.