Ahh Man...Mustang 5.0 swap???

NewlyIMPORTed

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I agree with all of that.. I just got a new STi and it gets an awesome 17mpg but im going to drive the hell out of it!

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hdskull

What happened to the cayman S?

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Synack

Uggggggggly! Had a guy in a Cayman try to race me today and I laughed. He wondered why I was laughing and I told him that my Nismo was even faster than the S version of his car.

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daisuke149

agree to an extent. huge motor gas slupring cars are coming to an end at some point. But that doesnt mean that all future cars will be nanny-mobiles.

There is obviously still a large enough demand for faster/exciting cars. Mustangs, STI, EVO, Corvettes, CTS-V, Porsche, etc that the exciting cars will not die off.

Sure it may be a 2.5 liter with some awesome technology that produces a ton of hp with low gas consumption, or a hybrid that is a torque monster, or even a pure electric that goes like hell.

If anything it seems that at some point people started getting more attached to the Big Engine Number vs the actual experience of driving the car. Aka, its a 6.3 liter oh baby yeah vs.. This car is awesome to drive.

One thing that will be missed personally though is the sound that the big v8's can make.. I still miss the sound my GTO made.

retiredmd

Before we lament the end of high-powered cars, remember this was the overwhelming opinion of most "experts" in the late 1960s-early 1970's. A combination of insurance concerns, smog controls and
'oil shocks", emasculated the 'muscle cars' with dire predictions that performance was forever dead.
Now, I realize the US was a very different country 40 years ago (as was the world) and that we may never fully recover economically from the Bush era Great Recession.
Hopefully, the strong coterie of performance buffs in the country will continue to sway manufacturers into building high-performance vehicles well into the future.

cptspeed

I love my Z and hopefully will always have it. I also love my 92 notch, which I get just as many looks in(and spanks the Z in a straight line). But they are way different cars. I think the solution is to have a garage full of cars. Deuce coupe, here I come!

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vividracing

I would love to be able to start building a collection now... Hopefully I can snatch up some "iconic" cars before they're extinct.

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Both cars are great, which ever you go with you wont be let down!

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Synack

You don't need to GTFO man! We are just trying to say that the magazines are wrong about the NISMO. People on this forum have consistently seen regular Z's and NISMO hit very low 13's and even high 12's bone stock and the 0-60 is definitely not 5.3. It's more like 4.6-4.8. Noone here should want you to GTFO, we were simply just trying to say that the numbers you posted on the car were a bit off. If you want to, look at it this way. The NISMO is a ~3250 pound car that has 350hp. The V6 mustang is 305hp vehicle and it weighs ~3500 pounds.
It just doesn't make any sense how a car with less power and more weight can be faster in a straight line or around the turns. That's all were trying to get at.

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m4a1mustang

That is the truth, though. If you are driving car X you tend to have a bias against all of its competitors and naturally assume owners of those competing cars are d-bags until proven otherwise. Human nature.

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shadoquad

It's true, but our inner car enthusiast can also appreciate a hot set of wheels. We all want to own them all. But until we all become multi-millionaires, we just buy the one or two that we can afford and drive the rest on Gran Turismo

m4a1mustang

Yeah, you have your fanboys who tend to hate on everyone and then your car guys like us that be lovin' on errbody's wheels.

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I love all cars, but I hate all fanboys

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Roadster4Us

Exactly!!!

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