Still Stings
That nice stuff is just a standalone blurb in their online Buyer's Guide section. When CD compares the GTO to the Mustang, they still like the Mustang better.
That conviction was reaffirmed last night as I read their article on the Mustang Convertible GT in the current issue. I marveled yet again that they're so smitten with this car. Yeah, my father worked for GM; yeah, I'm biased. But I've never questioned my sense of automotive aesthetics: Good-looking is good-looking. I'm sorry, but I just don't see the beauty in the Mustang. It's blocky, thick and sad-eyed. Ford's GT is gorgeous, and I'll happily concede that. The Mustang's a brick on wheels. Who on earth has "gotta have" that?
And CD persists in rubbing it in our faces that the Mustang "won" its January head-to-head contest with the GTO. Here's a quote from the article I read last night:
Our GT convertible tester scaled 3673, 150 pounds heavier than the first '05 GT coupe we tested [C/D, December 2004] and just 98 pounds heavier than the one that prevailed against the latest Pontiac GTO in a head-to-head shootout ["Goat and Pony Showdown," C/D, January 2005].
I really take exception to the word "prevailed." If they want to say "won us over," that's fine. But the GTO defeated the Mustang soundly in just about every measurable, quantifiable way, so it "prevailed" only in a purely subjective sense.
I guess the important thing is that we who drive our GTOs every day know the truth. Heck, if we didn't have this chip on our shoulders, our cars wouldn't be nearly as fun!