Clearly you guys have bought into the Top Gear hype of how bad a live axle is.
Ok, lets take a regular mustang GT straight off the showroom floor, and put it in a Autocross with Lotus Elise's, WRX STi's, and one Lotus Exige.
Now this auto-x was taken in a very neglected parking lot. Potholes and loose Gravel everywhere. A disaster for a car with a Live rear axle you'd say right?
Wrong.
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Wait, how can that be? It didn't spin out or crash into a tree!?! Surely it must be a fluke! Lets see when another Live axle car goes through the course a couple of times...
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So lets recap, both of your 'truth' on Live axles performace on loose surfaces...equal...
FAIL
Oh, and to add insult to injury. The Exige set a course time of .42 seconds. The Mustang GT did the course in .43 seconds and the big Impala did it in .45 seconds.
And before you ask, yes the Exige was being driven very hard, guy did kill 2 cones on his last run. :lol:
So, Live axle>you two.