Edmunds - Why don't they like it?

mpp9

Drive the car for yourself and don't worry about what auto journalists say. If clutch chatter, awkward clutch take up, engine noise and vibration bother you enough not to buy a car that goes low 13's in the 1/4 mile stock (12's with some mods) and handles as well as any car under a corvette's price tag then you're looking for something that comprimises performance for comfort/refinement or even worse an unreasonable notion that a 30k car should be as refined as a 60k car. It was built on the understanding that it can't be much more expensive than the previous 350 but has to perform better. It couldn't reduce weight considerably enough (95 pounds isn't bad) since it needed another 100 pounds of safety equipment so it needed to be combined with a power increase along with structural/suspension improvements. A turbo car is too expensive with that engine so enlarging and keeping it n/a was the only option. Period the end.