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Every time a newly designed Chevrolet Camaro comes out against a newly designed Ford Mustang, you know a battle is about to ensue. This year the 2010 Camaro took off both gloves, pulled out a 300 horsepower V-6 Camaro, 425 horsepower SS and told Mustang to give them their best shot. Well, the Mustang offered up a slightly updated rendition of the Mustang, but it still has the same tired and unenthusiastic 210 horsepower V-6 and respectable, but not as respectable as the Camaro, 315 horsepower V-8.

The last time anyone has seen a Camaro of this magnitude, I think the mullet was just coming into style, so Ford certainly had their work cut out for them. The sale numbers have come-in for the month of June, and GM was only too happy to gloat in the fact that they have outsold the Ford Mustang by almost 2,000 cars (9,320 to 7,362). This is the first time Ford has experienced such an upset in over 15 years (1993 to be exact).

If we go back to that faithful 1993 era, we see the Mustang was once again toting around a rather underpowered fox body platform. In full gear, the Mustang GT’s 5.0-liter only saw 205 horsepower (235 horsepower for the Cobra) and 275 ft-lbs of torque. The Camaro Z28 for that year same year was bestowed a detuned Corvette LT-1 engine worth 275 horsepower and 325 ft-lbs of torque. While horsepower never tells the entire story, some enthusiasts prefer to go for the biggest numbers!

While GM is claiming the sales have doubled their expectations and that they only have a six day supply of Camaro’s on hand, Ford is the one laughing to the bank. Well, I shouldn’t exactly say laughing, as they are not doing that good, but compared to everybody else they are doing great. While GM reported a 33 percent drop in sales for the month of June, Ford reported only an 11 percent decline. But the mustang is not exactly the breadwinner for Ford, but rather the Fusion and the Escape.

Ford has even beat out Toyota (32 percent), Honda (30 percent), and Nissan (23 percent) by a fair margin, putting them into a very good position for the mid-year. In addition to the increased sales, Ford also received good news this month that they will be the lucky recipient of around $8 billion in government loans to help build new, green vehicles.

Sometimes it’s good to the the king!

Source: Autoweek.com