Fords flagship should crush a base GT in all performance categories—most important being acceleration.
I’ve personally beat 2 GT350’s in a roll race and half a dozen or more at the drag strip.
Not acceptable IMO.
You may have missed the thread SID posted about the CP crank 5.2 Ford was working on .... that thread alone told me what a waste of time and money the Voodoo really is.
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Sigh, anecdotal evidence is of low value. I could respond with "I've beaten..." but then it becomes perspective based. With equal drivers, a base GT (stock) is not beating a stock 350 in ANYTHING. The rare exception being the new 10 speed auto and a full on 1/4 drag race from launch.
But again, you completely miss the point. Your comparison is like the muscle heads that go to the gym and do nothing but bench press. You look at a 195 lb man who's in incredible shape and can bench press 280 and the guy who's 35 lbs overweight, can't run or do anything other than bench press and claim he's in better shape because he can bench 290?
I trust you realize there's MORE to driving performance than just straight line racing right?
Your comparison is akin to saying "A Ford GT should be able to beat that F250 4x4 across a muddy plow field." One vehicle is designed for one purpose, the other something very different.
Ford will most likely blur the lines even further with the new 500, but the 500 has been a muscle car, the 350, was again, not INTENDED to focus on beating shittier cars in a straight line. Had the engineers wanted to do that they would have designed and focused it to do so. They would have benchmarked it against other narrow focused muscle cars.
You're bagging on a car that you don't own, sounds like you don't know how to drive, and your only justification is that it doesn't match your expectations for straight line acceleration?
Some of us want more to our driving experience than a drag chute on the back of the car. Those cars USED to impress me, then I graduated to a more complete driving expectation.