1975’s skinny little new kid on the block takes on Ford’s hot-selling bully—and comes out on top.
Oops. The ’70s were such a dreary time that we fell into a funk and forgot to compare the Mustang and Camaro for a full decade. What we did do, however, was pit a Mustang II against a Chevy Monza in this Toilet Bowl of sorts. The bellowing 302-cubic-inch (we’re going retro; there ain’t no liters in this house) V-8 in the Mustang was the more powerful of the two engines, with 129 screaming ponies just waiting for their chance to unleash a stonking 10.1-second hump to 60.
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When Ford and Chevrolet put their ears to the ground, they both apparently hear the same hoofbeats. And if the Mustang II and Monza 2 + 2 are any indication, both companies respond by circling their wagons in the same direction. If you are looking for a 1975 sports car Detroit-style, these two compact coupes are your only choices. And though they are worlds apart visually and in terms of the corporate engineering preferences, the fundamental concepts behind them are so close that you’d think the product planners had been sifting each other’s wastepaper.
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