Halfway through a back-to-back test day last summer, a buddy handed me the keys to his 1LE after I'd been ripping a Mustang GT around the same canyon loop all morning. Two corners in, I understood why Camaro guys are so insufferable about the Alpha platform — they're right.
The Mustang felt like a muscle car pretending to be a sports car. The Camaro felt like a sports car that someone accidentally gave 455 lb-ft of torque. The LT1 makes more twist than the Coyote, the 1LE chassis is genuinely in a different zip code dynamically, and somehow the market is punishing the Camaro for having worse interior visibility and a infotainment system designed by someone who hates human fingers. That's your opportunity.
Depreciation is doing the lord's work on 6th-gen SS prices right now. You're getting magnetic ride, an LSD, Brembo brakes, and a chassis GM spent real engineering dollars on — for less than a comparably equipped GT. The Coyote revs prettier and the Mustang's aftermarket is deeper, n...
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