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Originally Posted by DGthe3
Yes and no. I don't expect radical improvements, but that is still a pretty big improvement. A ~3750 lb ATS would be a midsize luxury car with a turbocharged V6. The ~3750 lb V6 Camaros lack forced induction and a lot of the luxury appointments you'd find in a Cadillac.
Or, we can think of it the other way. A V8 engine would weigh about the same as a forced induction V6, and they'd need roughly equal drivetrain components so the overall weight difference between them would be minimal. And they could pull at least 50 lbs of luxury out of the car going from Cadillac to Camaro, maybe 100. That would put a 6th gen SS at 3650-3700 lbs, or about 150-200 lbs less than what the SS starts at today. Thats pretty substantial, and within 100 lbs of the Mustang GT.
And if Ford goes to an IRS & increases the chassis rigidity (for both safety regs and to improve the handling) they're going to have a hard time keeping weight the same between generations, let alone losing any. So come 2016 I expect the Camaro & Mustang to weigh within about 50 lbs of each other, and I'd flip a coin to pick which one will be lighter.
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the mustang is getting smaller as well, doesn't that in itself increase rigidity? almost like a win/win situation.