There's more to it than that, but you won't (or can't) understand that. To each his own, it's not a big deal.

 

I think this was your post over there, "Now the reason I made the poll is because I had made arguement on another site that the stang crowd would be dissappointed if the GT only made 300. But I guess I was wrong. There is a big difference between the Camaro and Mustang crowd."

There is a big difference. I don't think the Camaro crowd is wrong for wanting a car that performs better than most out there, including Mustang, but this type of thinking will only end up hurting sales (if you're trying to sell a lot of them which GM was trying to do). I think GM has realized this and is going to make a more Mustang like car with the next Camaro. I know that scares some, but nobody is saying can't perform better than the 1st, 2nd, 3rd or 4th Gen F-bodies.

 

Well of course it is simplified but I still think that many Mustang people will blindly buy Mustangs. I know many people on this board and myself demand a great deal from the Camaro and if it is not done right, then we wil not buy it. It doesn't seem to be like that for the Mustang guys................how else can you explain people buying the 93'-98' Mustangs.

 

LOL, I bought a 97 GT I do see where you're coming from, but at the same time I see a lot more. Eight million Mustangs sold, there's got to be a reason for that other than the name. I still own my 67 that's modified and a very fun car to drive. It's not the greatest car in the world, but people know what it is, it looks good, goes fast and with the suspension upgrades I did to it, handles fairly well. There's a lot of reasons why people buy Mustangs, I know what mine are and they are so many that they won't fit in this post

 

I don't see how people are trying to say it will be M*stang-like. Why, because dimensions will be reduced? Because it will have more engine options? Because it might have a trunk and quarter window? That stuff has all been Camaro too. I would bet on the car being bigger, wider, and lower than the M*stang, even if it's not by much.

 

Sounds good. You don't have to justify why you bought the car but I will still argue that a large percentage of the people who buy Mustangs buy them because of the name, the past, and care litle about performance.

Here is an example of something related to this. I bought my 95' Z28 in September 98' and one month later, a friend of mine bought a 96' GT. He was thinking about getting an F-body because the performance differential was huge but he still got the Mustang because he had owned a Mustang before and his father only buys Fords so therefor, so does he. That was directly out of his mouth, not my interpretation. I always thought that was really strange and a terrible reason to buy a car, or stick to a brand. After his purchase he said he should have bought an F-body but admitted he would not actually do it.

 

Kinda sounds like when I said a month or so ago that I felt more enthusiats buy Camaros than M*stangs. Or you can also say that more "casual" buyers buy M*stangs than Camaros.

 

Yeah, one of my Camaro friends who visits this board from time to time told me that he'd rather push a Camaro to work than drive a Mustang (even Cobra). The same mentalities are on both sides, there's just more Mustang people.

 

I agree with that but in the case I mentioned with my fried, it wasn't as if he didn't like the Camaro, he did, but he wouldn't buy it because "I am a Mustang guy" and "I only buy Fords".

I also think it is fair to say that the Camaro is more performance oriented than the Mustang and also that more enthusiasts buy Camaros. Not that this is good or bad, it is what it is.

 

That's why in the last few years Ford has been good about offering a performance version of the Mustang. The Mach1 and Cobra are nice cars and perform pretty well. So if someone really wasn't too biased, they'd have no reason not to buy a Cobra over a Camaro SS. The Mustang enthusiasts are there and it large numbers. Go to any Mustang site (SVTPerformance is a good one) and you'll see that. You *could* say that Mustang owners are even better enthusiasts than Camaro owners because there's such a large aftermarket for Mustangs. Those parts wouldn't be there if people weren't buying them and they're not buying Mustang parts for Camaros. Hopefully that made sense. Anyway, that's my view on it.

 

There is a big aftermarket for Camaros too. I don't know how that being true or not either way would make one group better enthusiasts.

 

It is good that Ford started offering the Cobra/Mach 1 or they would have had big problems with the enthusiasts.

Also, with my friend with the Mustang, he did like the whole " 'Stang Community" thing and liked to say that he had a " 'Stang". He was shunned by the 5.0 community some because he had the 4.6 and it was still pretty new then and looked down upon.

 

I think there may have been some shunning at first, but that's rare in the Mustang world from my experience.