Ford guys: Your 2010 Camaro SS is not a fair contest with a 2009 Mustang GT. Wait till we come out with something to beat you again!
Camaro guys: It looks like your new 4.6L horsepower bump leaves us in the lead.
It is amazing how things change and stay the same.
Ford guys: Let's compare our GT500 to your SS so that we can have a decisive win.
Camaro guys: Wouldn't you rather discuss being a driver's race with the Camaro using your new 5.0L?
Ford guys: That's not fair. You can't catch the amazing 5.0L! Let's compare our GT500 to a 1986 Corvette. :upset:
This is getting ridiculous. You should compare cars based on a couple of scenarios: cross-shopped cars and unpredictable outcomes. The idea of comparing cross-shopped cars is to compare cars that shoppers who are not car enthusiasts will compare. If 80% of pony car buyers look at Mustangs and Camaros but not Corvettes, then we should compare Mustangs and Camaros. Including Corvettes would be pointless. The other approach would be to compare cars based on unpredictable outcomes. For instance, comparing a heavily modified 2005 Cobalt SS supercharged to a 2010 Lamborghini Murcielago LP 670-4 AWD would result in the expected outcome of a Lamborghini winning. The idea of such a discussion would be to prove that a Cobalt SS supercharged could, at least in theory but preferably in practice, defeat a stock Murcielago under certain circumstances. Proving the obvious is a waste of time and space on this forum.