It's sad that the Mustang GT runs so far behind the Camaro Z28, and it's obvious that Ford has undergone a change in philosophy with its mythic pony car. All the same, Ford engineers and designers didn't put in this painstaking job of refinement to have the result spoken of as a loser. They deserve better. But so do the Mustang faithful. Sure, their beloved steed has taken huge strides in styling and sophistication, but at Waterford Hills, it got its haunches hammered by the archrival Camaro.
Ring up the dyno room! Call in the horsepower! And count on another battle in the War of the Ponies. The mother of all Mustang-versus-Camaro shoot-outs. Speed wins. Advantage: Camaro. This contest of "Red Speed" puts the Deutsche treat a mile away in acceleration, top speed, and price. Among the domestics, the Camaro edges the Mustang by a point. Testers find fault with the Mustang's drop-throttle oversteer and steering feel: "It felt like a Mafia triggerman," notes Michael Jordan.
The Camaro's extra speed and better braking give it the nod. The Camaro runs away with the honors. The Camaro ranks eighth out of eight, while the Mustang ties for fifth. The winner is the Audi Coupe GT, a blip on the radar of sports-coupe history. Advantage: Mustang. Looking for revenge, Chevy supplies us with a standard-issue 5. A half-second quicker in the autocross, the Mustang wins by a nose. The brand-new Camaro and Firebird take on the twelve-year-old Mustang, updated in horsepower Cobra form.
Though it's relaxed and refined at cruising speeds, the Mustang gives up pure speed to the GM pony cars. The Camaro edges out its stablemate by a hair, based on lower price and sleeker styling. Despite many tight turns and one steep hill, the track has a straightaway long enough that both cars attained speeds between and mph at its conclusion. The circuit is also a cruel test of brakes.
In fact, what we noticed first was that the Camaro's brakes required less pedal pressure than the Mustang's and were easier to modulate. Having said that, the Z28's anti-lock system suddenly quit anti-locking at the end of the straightaway, giving Kevin Smith a moment in which to mentally review his last will and testament.
At ten-tenths, the Mustang's steering was more linear and suffered less kickback than the Camaro's. The Z28's is more heavily assisted—usually a plus at a tight track like this—but it tended to evoke too much initial turn-in.
So you spent the rest of the turn making minute corrections to the Z28's wobbly line. The Mustang's seat was also a winner, offering good thigh support on max-lat turns. In the Camaro, on the other hand, you have to scrunch up your left leg and wedge it as stiffly as possible against the door panel, then brace your upper body by desperately clutching the steering wheel. Or onto that huge medicine ball on the tip of the shifter.
Pushed to its limit, the Camaro didn't understeer as much as the Mustang, in part because, with all the Z28's torque, a punch of the throttle helped rotate its tail.
That same torque carried the Camaro up Waterford's steep hill with less effort than the puffing Mustang expended. That section of the course alone may have given the Camaro a half-second advantage.
The Camaro's suspension was always quicker to settle after bumps and ham-fisted maneuvers. And the Z28's grip was marginally higher when the chassis was unweighted, which is about always at hilly Waterford. It feels like the Z28 has a center of gravity far lower than the Mustang's. Still, both cars were benign, predictable, and easy to drive to their limits—particularly the Mustang, perhaps because it's slightly slower, goes into understeer earlier, and felt as if its platform flexes much less.
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