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Originally posted by AzCivic
ahahahah again a mustang owner gets pissy. so your saying since i dont own a crappy cobra that was f'd from the factory I dont have th right to talk about it? uhhh riiight i came close to buying one awhile back then did some research and found a ton of interesting news that they were big piles of shit that didnt make the power they were supposed to. THE COBRA being Fords flagship muscle car.

and no one gives two shits about the trouble YOU had with a honda.. there's a reason Honda is always ranked higher than ford/chevy when it come to reliability and quality of materials. get over it.

I'm not really getting pissy...I'm explaining to you what you chose to leave out. I'm not saying since you don't OWN a cobra you can't say anything about them...I'm saying whatever "research" you did doesn't give you the knowledge required to bash them. That's like me bashing Accords or Civics...I know a little about them but not much really. Hell...I'll totally concede that the '99s were crap as far as the power adertised vs. what you got...but at least you could get them fixed at your convenience at no cost. But even then a lot of dynos showed that on quite a few cars the "fix" actually lowered numbers. As for my Honda experience, that was simply a reference. Does it matter if you care? No. And you're right...there.s a reason Honda/Toyota/Nissan are higher in owner reliability polls than domestics and it's for the very reason I listed. A lot of people have this idea that if it's "made in America" it's better, and for years that was true. But they haven't figured out that now everyone makes their cars the same way. So what's more American? A Toyota built in Kentucky or a Ford built in Mexico? So when a "domestic" breaks down people b*tch and moan and whine. Like with the '99 Cobras...It was big news when they didn't make as much power as they were supposed to but when Mazda misses the mark by 15%-20%, no one pitches a fit. Every car company has their lemons...that's hardly a debateable issue. Now as for my cubic inch arguement...it's a little different from what you call a "ricer" arguement. See...on the street kids use that defense at stoplight where they choose to race guys with bigger motors than theirs. When you bench race, the GT and Z28/Cobra and SS get lumped together purely by association. People assume they're in direct competition because their roughly the same trim levels but from 2 different companies. Maybe they are...I really don't know. What I DO know is that Chevy took the easy way out. If you look at changes made to the Camaro and Mustang respectively, you'll see that every year that the Cobra got stronger hp numbers, the next year GM would bump the Camaro up just high enough to claim superiority. It's easy to build a faster car once you know what the "competition" has.