The Mustang GT offers you the most effective elements of the V-6–powered automotive, solely with extra ponies. Its 412-hp V-8 is 107 horses stronger than the 113-pound-lighter V-6 mannequin, and it’s 138 horses wanting the 198-pound-heavier, V-8–powered Shelby GT500. The GT’s further juice, and not using a correspondingly important weight penalty, is a key purpose why we singled it out for this yr’s 10Best Automobiles award and why it performs so nicely on a observe. It’s value noting, although, {that a} obligatory choice for warm lapping is the $1695 Brembo entrance brake package deal, which additionally brings sticky Pirelli P Zero tires. With that package deal, the GT turns a 3:08.6 lap, 0.9 second faster than its longtime pony-car rival, the Camaro SS, managed in final yr’s Lightning Lap, and third in school regardless of being the second-least-expensive LL2 automotive, at $36,280.
LL 2011 Outcomes
