Which is best? Mustang vs Camaro

SFC Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 17:24:26 -0400

In the military you always here the good natured heckling of which branch is better or which MOS is better, but lets figure out once and for all what is really the best according to RP. Mustang or Camaro?

If you are an owner feel free to share your pic with the rest of us.

Response by MSG Private RallyPoint Member made Jun 24 at 2014 5:43 PM

MSG Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 17:43:58 -0400

Modern Camero all day! Why?? Because I'm a geek and love Bumblebee from Transformers!!!!
I've actually always wanted a Camero, I really like the solid look of the modern Camero as well as the I-Rod front.

Response by LTC Paul Labrador made Jun 24 at 2014 5:56 PM

LTC Paul Labrador — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 17:56:06 -0400

Jeep....

Response by SSgt Gregory Guina made Jun 24 at 2014 9:08 PM

SSgt Gregory Guina — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 21:08:11 -0400

None of the above. Give me a Pontiac GTO or something from MOPAR. Camaro and Mustangs are overplayed and overproduced.

Response by MSG Wade Huffman made Jun 25 at 2014 8:50 AM

MSG Wade Huffman — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 08:50:01 -0400

Of the choices listed, I'd say classic Mustang... HOWEVER, my #1 muscle car choice (given an unlimited budget) would be a 1970 or 1971 Hemi 'Cuda. Oh yeah!!

Response by Capt Private RallyPoint Member made Jun 25 at 2014 9:03 AM

Capt Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 09:03:24 -0400

Im gonna go with my 2002 Combat Honda civic...its got over 125000 miles and goes 0-60 in about 5...minutes!

Response by SFC Private RallyPoint Member made Jun 25 at 2014 10:14 AM

SFC Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 10:14:08 -0400

I would have said Truck... but Jeep was already posted. So I guess Classic 'Vette would be the best. Although not an option.

Response by SSG Trevor S. made Jun 25 at 2014 10:51 AM

SSG Trevor S. — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 10:51:44 -0400

If young 2LT's are trying to over come jealousy of having their path named after a car then trying to impose the ROTC or Service school route as being a "Camaro" vs the enlisted to OCS route as "Mustang" then those LT's need to meet a few enlisted Ford F150's.

All kidding aside, I would rather get a classic Mustang.

Response by Cpl Private RallyPoint Member made Jun 25 at 2014 11:12 AM

Cpl Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 11:12:43 -0400

I am so conflicted, as an ardent fan of the late sixties Mustang, I find that I am very much drawn to the recent Mustang versions using some of the older body styles. I think that the two voting options from Camero can be removed entirely and add two other Mustang options.

Response by LTC Private RallyPoint Member made Jun 25 at 2014 12:32 PM

LTC Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 12:32:49 -0400

Well if you are limiting it to just the two named then I vote classic Mustang (a fastback with suspension mods like the one McQueen drove in Bullitt).

My ideal car, however, is not American. For about the same price as a performance-model Mustang ($40K) I drive a Mercedes-Benz C300. Its actually my fourth C class Mercedes, and next year I'll probably trade it in on a new one.

Yes, muscle cars are faster, but when you drive 4,000-5,000 miles per month like I do, there is no substitute for a supportive and firm drivers seat in a tight-handling car.

Response by LTC Brian Stoll made Jun 25 at 2014 12:50 PM

LTC Brian Stoll — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 12:50:42 -0400

Classic Plymouth Barracuda! 426 Wedge, Hollys, headers, etc.

Response by MAJ Jim Woods made Jun 25 at 2014 4:08 PM

MAJ Jim Woods — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 16:08:10 -0400

My 67' Stang (289 ci-225 hp) Hammered all the Camero's it ever came up against. Some of them were around Victory Circle and the Playground at Aberdeen back in the day. No one was touching the Shelby Mustangs.

I later got a 69' Stang but by then the Camero's had it figured out but the Mustang looked better...... ;-)

Response by SPC Charles Brown made Jun 25 at 2014 4:09 PM

SPC Charles Brown — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 16:09:27 -0400

Originals are always the best in my opinion.

Response by Cpl Ray Fernandez made Jun 25 at 2014 5:26 PM

Cpl Ray Fernandez — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 17:26:30 -0400

I had a 67 Mustang for 13 years.

Response by SFC Private RallyPoint Member made Jun 25 at 2014 7:42 PM

SFC Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 19:42:55 -0400

Neither. They may be fast and pretty but eventually they have to stop and I will drive over them with my big ass Dodge Ram

Response by SrA Eric Olsen made Jun 25 at 2014 11:29 PM

SrA Eric Olsen — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 23:29:35 -0400

Mopar... I'll take a Charger over the other two.

Response by SSgt Robert Clark made Jun 25 at 2014 11:48 PM

SSgt Robert Clark — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 23:48:03 -0400

I like ALL classic cars, they all made at least one car I would love to own. That being said, I am a Ford person, have been all my life. I have owned a 67 Fastback, 66 2+2, 87 GT, 96 GT and now an 01 Cobra. I loved the 66 and 67 but my current is the most fun to drive.
If I had all the cars, trucks, jeeps, motorcycles etc. I want I would need to have a warehouse for them all.

Response by CW5 Sam R. Baker made Jun 26 at 2014 8:58 AM

CW5 Sam R. Baker — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 08:58:40 -0400

My first car was a 1967 Camaro, owned a 1986, 1987 and 1996 5.0 Mustangs also. But the pride and joy was the Challenger I had when joining the military in 1987 that I had to get rid of cause it was too hard to drag a muscle car around with you in the service. Still is!

Response by MSG Martin C. made Jun 26 at 2014 11:03 AM

MSG Martin C. — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 11:03:34 -0400

Mustang all the way......

Response by SSgt Carl B. made Jun 26 at 2014 11:18 AM

SSgt Carl B. — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 11:18:03 -0400

Pops worked for Ford Motor company in the factory for 30 years - have to go with Original Mustang! '66 Fast Back!!!

Response by SFC Private RallyPoint Member made Jun 26 at 2014 2:56 PM

SFC Private RallyPoint Member — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 14:56:23 -0400

The ZL1 Camaro is unstoppable. There is no doubt in my mind, it beats a Mustang on all fronts.

Response by Sgt Donald Jewell made Jun 26 at 2014 5:49 PM

Sgt Donald Jewell — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 17:49:01 -0400

I had a '65 Mustang coupe back in '74 station at Holloman AFB, NM and it was cherry. It was tortoise paint, pony interior, 289 V8, wire-rim hubs, cruise-o-matic tranny. It's really hard to say which is best not having driven a Camero. Seems to me is order to make a valid decision you would of had to at least driven both.

Response by SrA Wilbert Bass made Jul 2 at 2014 3:04 PM

SrA Wilbert Bass — Wed, 02 Jul 2014 15:04:24 -0400

Well me and my wife own a 2005 Mustang GT with the 4.6 liter in it with a bunch of bolt ons on it like a bbk 62mm throttle body on it and a off road x-pipe And a jlt cold air intake and a set of 4.10 gears in it and a tune in the computer from a sct tune which is only a 91 octane performance tune in it. We've also got 18x10s on the back and 18x9s on the front with nitto nt555's on them front and rear which is their drag radials. And we are going to take a vacation next year in October 2015 and take it to Brendspeed in Indiana and then we are going to have a Paxton novi 1200 supercharger put on it and the big brake kit by brembo and we are also going to have it lowered 1.5 to 2 inches. But I know what most of you are thinking that with every thing that's been done to it it has to get terrible gas mileage we'll your wrong if you think that because it gets 29 miles per gallon in the city and 18 on the highway which is better than it got when it was stock because it got 23/16 then. But then it only has 61000 miles on it and we've owned it since 2010 and are the second owed and we only gave 19995.00 for it when we bought it with only 9998 miles on it but anyway back to what all has been done to it as far as performance goodies that's all but we have some add ons done to the exterior like the factory hood scope and c-scoops in front of the rear fender flares and a chin spoiler on it and quarterglass loovers everything on the outside is black either gloss black (paint) or flat black wheels and chin spoiler even the mustang emblem in the grill is flat black along with the GT emblems on the sides of the car are flat black but all of the flat black on the car is plasti dip which is a plastic spray paint that they sale online or at Wal-Mart or Lowe's home emprovement stores and we can just peel it off if we get tired of it and we get thumbs up everywhere we go with the car and when we pull up to the stoplights here in town the people that don't know the car try to race it but they lose even the ZL-1 CAMAROS lose to it because it turn 12.54 in the quarter mile at 121 mph because of the rear gear that's in it. Those 4.10s really woke the car up But anyway if you have a Challenger or a Camaro and want to try it just let me know LOL... But I driven a Challenger R/T and a Camaro ZL-1 not to mention I've raced them at the track and have beat both of them by more than half a second over the camaro and about a whole second faster than the challenger so not only have I driven both of the cars but I've raced both of them at the track and beat both of the with a car that only makes 275 rwhp and 360 at the flywheel

Response by MSgt Kevin Morris made Jul 10 at 2014 8:35 AM

MSgt Kevin Morris — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 08:35:03 -0400

The new look is nice. However the new TransAm isn't so bad either.

Response by SGT(P) Private RallyPoint Member made Oct 19 at 2015 4:03 PM

SGT(P) Private RallyPoint Member — Mon, 19 Oct 2015 16:03:59 -0400

Mustang GT500 all the way! SFC Private RallyPoint Member

Response by SGM Steve Wettstein made Oct 19 at 2015 4:13 PM

SGM Steve Wettstein — Mon, 19 Oct 2015 16:13:58 -0400

Until body change in 2015 I would have said the Mustang.

Response by SGT John Rauch made Oct 19 at 2015 4:26 PM

SGT John Rauch — Mon, 19 Oct 2015 16:26:12 -0400

lol chevy

Response by SGT William Howell made Oct 20 at 2015 12:27 PM

SGT William Howell — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 12:27:39 -0400

I have a thing for split bumper Chevys and Vetts. Crazy I know. I also love the early 70's BOSS Mustangs

Response by SPC Private RallyPoint Member made Oct 21 at 2015 5:32 PM

SPC Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 21 Oct 2015 17:32:53 -0400

Dodge Challenger....

Response by SSgt Phil Sigman made Oct 21 at 2015 8:06 PM

SSgt Phil Sigman — Wed, 21 Oct 2015 20:06:16 -0400

1st gen Camaro all the way!

Response by SFC Private RallyPoint Member made Oct 22 at 2015 1:19 AM

SFC Private RallyPoint Member — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 01:19:56 -0400

I boycott your survey, MOPAR or No Car. That being said, the Camaro was pretty much a direct copy of the mustang, but an improvement for sure. A Yenko Camaro wouldn't break my heart.

Response by TSgt David L. made Oct 23 at 2015 1:44 AM

TSgt David L. — Fri, 23 Oct 2015 01:44:16 -0400

Actually spelled Camaro. I had a '68 in Florida and am restoring a '71 Camaro now. My Son bought a '90 RS that we are updating now as well

Response by A1C Private RallyPoint Member made Nov 15 at 2016 5:26 PM

A1C Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 17:26:11 -0500

I'd like to know why Charger/Challenger isn't included? Hm.

Anyways, it normally depends on the person. As of 2016, Camaro 1SS has 455 hp/455 ft-lb and curbs at 3685lbs. The Mustang GT makes 435/400 and curbs at just over 100lbs more.

GM's LT1 6.2 V8 is a small block OHV, with only one camshaft to swap out if you want to gain some more power without spending a crazy amount of change.

Ford's Coyote 5.0 V8 is a DOHC, with four cams to swap out and is actually a heavier engine than the Camaro's LT1, and produces less power overall comparatively. However, the Coyote produces more power per cube due to having an advantage with the DOHC setup.

I personally prefer the new 6th gen Camaro over the 6th gen 'Stang... plus I'm not one for mowing down crowds.

But if we take it back to the classic times, I would take a 1965 Mustang over the later 69 Camaro. Everyone everywhere knows what a 64.5-68 Mustang looks like. Eleanor, oh Eleanor.