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Originally Posted by eolson
The amazing thing that GM did a long time ago, was to actually commit to a true American , low riding, two seat sports car, the Corvette.
Ford tried and went too far with the Ford GT which was an exotic, and it died quickly. Otherwise Ford is always half assing it with their"performance category. Because of Chevy's heavy commitment to the Corvette and it's racing activities, all this great and amazing high performance technology has trickled into GM's street cars with top end aerodynamics, suspension and chassis performance, brakes.
Fords engines have been revolutionary, but otherwise they have not committed to these other categories in the ahead of the game way that GM has for it's high performance street cars.
If you look at the new Z06 (Z07 package plus magnetic adjustable shocks) track times, it's just ridiculous how well that car takes on a track and is still able to be a daily driver.
Erik
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ford has always had a spoty history with racing and so has GM if look at the true historical record.
they get really focused for a time period acomplish a goal and then get out. The GT40 program is like that, the original boss program was like that, the Z28 camaro program was like that. The corvette program has been up and down lately but they are still in it.
were you look at a company like ferrari or something they have been all in every year no matter what. I think it is funny that somoen like ford can come in spend a couple years piss in there cheerio's then step out but they deffinatly are not in it for the long haul. allthough carrol shelby had alot to do with that. I mean his daytona coupe was actually faster than the gt40 but ford just kind of bought him out. that is a true amazing story right there his small team dominated the world for a year.
Even in nascar if it was for names like roush, yates, hendrick, etc factory suport is not where is should be IMO.
the awesome thing about the ZL-1, boss 302, corvette, 2013gt500 is they are doing actuall at the track deveopement again and taking feedback from pro drivers. It is win win for the consumer.