Camaro Vs. Mustang: An Argumentative Paper On Horsepower

Camaro Vs. Mustang: An Argumentative Paper on Horsepower, Gas Mileage, and Safety Majority of cars are equal to each some are better and more efficient than others. The two most iconic American muscle cars are the Ford Mustang and the Chevy Camaro. The Ford mustang that has been out since the 1960’s it’s fords only muscle car that’s still on the streets today. Chevy’s Camaro came out in 1967 and was discontinued in 2002, and reemerged around 2009 and still around today this is Chevy’s muscle car. Both brands compete to see who can build the best muscle car every year through different aspects such as horsepower, gas mileage, and safety.
Horsepower
Horsepower is when work is being done. One horse can pull up to 30,000 to 33,000 pounds in one minute. The more horsepower the better. The way horsepower works in an engine is when the crankshaft spins once it goes through all four strokes in that one spin. When the crank spins it moves

The Camaro has more horsepower because its V-8 which has 295 horsepower and a bore of 4.00” x 3.48” stroke and 10.25:1 compression ratio, then the mustang with 230 horsepower 4.00” bore x 3.00” stroke and 10.0:1 compression ratio (Irvine 2014). The newer Camaros and Mustangs are faster and have more horsepower, but the Camaro is still faster because it comes with a supercharger and the mustang only has a flat-plane crank (Bell 2016). The Camaro has the potential to be faster because its lighter than the mustang. The 2016 Camaro’s weight is at 3,750 and the 2016 mustang is at 3,800 pounds, the Camaro can go 0-60 in 4.1 seconds and the mustang goes 4.4, and in a ¼ mile the Camaro runs 12.3 and the mustang goes 12.8 (Cleveland 2016). The 2016 V8 super sport (SS) Camaro is 390 pounds lighter, and made with alpha modular platform (Brauer 2015), which makes to car fun faster. The horsepower, and weight is what makes the Camaro faster than the