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Mail From: Dennis J Robinson <(email redacted)>

I agree, The mustangs primary competetion is the Camaro/Firebird crowd.
If they did make it perform along the lines of the vette, then more than
likely me and you won't be able to afford it anymore. Maybe ford can
create a new car that will be designed to handle the vette. They could
release somethingllike that mustang mach iii concept car to handle it!

Dennis J Robinson University Of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
UNIX Affiacondo Owner of 1989 Mustang 5.0 GT
uxa.cso.uiuc.edu/~djrobins/welcome.html

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Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 15:46:38 -0700
From: Chuck Fry <(email redacted)>
To: (email redacted)
Cc: (email redacted)
Subject: Re: 96 Mustang/GT/Cobra


Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 12:08:16 -0700
From: Eugene Y C Chu <(email redacted)>

If you want to make the Mustang a truely competitive car, you must make
it handle at least as well as the competition (Corvette?). Its current
suspension design simply will not cut it, even with all the band-aids
that are available now.

Why does everyone want Ford to turn the Mustang into a Corvette-class
car? It never was and never will be, and if in fact they ever do it, it
will be too expensive to sell in Mustang-like quantities. The real
competition is the Camarobird, and has been since '67.

The closest Ford ever came to a 'Vette class car was the original 2-seat
Thunderbird. At the time, both had live axle rear suspensions.
Remember, this was the mid-'50s.
-- Chuck