Mustang Vs Mustang: Top Gear Gets It Wrong
I know, shocking right? The annoying Brits that seem to make it their lives goal to bash on U.S. sports cars have gotten something so obvious, so wrong. In an episode, where they pitted a Ford Mustang up against an actual horse, they claimed to be using a GT Mustang, which comes stock with a 4.6v V8 rated at 300 Horsepower. Instead, in the actual video they are using a V6 Mustang, rated at 210 Horsepower. Not only are they using the V6 Mustang but they picked the heaviest V6 Mustang you can possibly buy, a convertible.
How does one of the largest automotive shows in Britain get something so obvious and so important…. so wrong? It can only lead someone to believe that they got it wrong on purpose, to try to further the dislike for U.S. sports cars overseas. More so, how do they get away with it? Watch the video below and then feel free to send them your thoughts on their deceitful propaganda.
Comment by sonic04edge — March 10, 2008 @ 2:42 pm
dumbass
Comment by sonicpony03 — March 10, 2008 @ 3:02 pm
So much for top gear, they seem to compliment the Roush Mustang in another episode, then race it against an elise on a track. The Roush driver gets passed, then suddenly “spins out and loses control”. You would think the brits would have something better to do.
Comment by egomez24 — March 10, 2008 @ 6:22 pm
I have seen this dumbass test drive a Cobra and a Roush, so he knows his mustangs. The nerve of him trying to pass off a V6 mustang for a GT that just hurts his reputation, who knows what he will do to make a manufacture look good or in this case Bad. I tell you what an asswipe.
Comment by 05RedDevil — March 10, 2008 @ 8:51 pm
That is actually a relatively old episode but, yeah, it did piss me of the first time I saw it. Hopefully, most viewers also realize how much of an idiot he was for running a V6 and calling it a V8. Shows he really is not a true car enthusiast. And America will always be at the top because we can look and count to 8 (and even higher).
Comment by Ibanezplayer272 — March 11, 2008 @ 12:43 am
“It has a 4.6L heart and 300 Horsepowers.” What a reDICULOUS peace of trash this guy is and everyone else that is on top gear. I don’t care how old the video is, you can tell a V6 from a GT, not only from the sound of it but the friggin GT badges on the actual GT and no badges on the V6. What a retard.
Comment by OsirisGuy — March 12, 2008 @ 2:26 am
Anyone else notice it was an automatic?
Now for science!
Physics tells us that Centripetal Force (Fc)= mass X centripetal acceleration (ac) or we can define it as Fc = m X (v^2 / r) Where “r” is the radius of the circle. Now what this means is as the mass and/or velocity increases so does the centripetal force of the car, or the acceleration that’s pushing out on the car. And I’m pretty sure a car weighs more than a horse (even with the rider).
Also the equation for friction can be defined as Force of Friction or (Ff) = (v^2)/(r X g) where “g” is a constant for gravity at 9.81 m/s^2.
Some beginning physic equations I learned.