Unrefined, Uninhibited and Devastatingly Quick
I was a kid in the '60s and a teenager in the '70s, so the Mustang has long been on my dream car list - excepting the forgettable Mustang II series. Powerful V8 fastbacks with names like Mach 1 and Shelby won over my impressionably young heart, forever creating the desire to one day own an example of the fabled steed.
But 0 to 100 aside that doesn't mean much, you say? It's true that Mustangs have never been particularly agile around the corners when compared to more sophisticated imports sporting fully independent suspension systems, and also more or less true that the new model still features mostly the same dated chassis architecture that Ford introduced when the Mustang II replacement hit the scene over a quarter of a century ago, albeit much improved over the years. But all that goes out the window with the new SVT Cobra.
I took a sunny afternoon to speed up a snake-like stretch of highway not far from my home, an excellent test bed capable of pulling the best and worst out of any car. The SVT Mustang coupe is tight, tracking well at high speed and quite predictably through the really sharp corners. I didn't feel as confident at its extreme limits as I would in say, Infiniti's G35 Sport Coupe, but then again nothing this side of a Porsche 911 fits my driving style quite as well. Recent Articles
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