The Rocket is a 1968 Ford Mustang at heart, and it sits in the middle of the muscle-car group in every sense. It carries the same front-heavy V8 layout as the others, but it is lighter and more evenly balanced at roughly 55/45, so none of the usual vices dominate. It is the neutral all-rounder — it turns in without much fuss and only steps the rear out mildly under power.
How it drives
On tarmac the Rocket asks less of you than the heavier bruisers. There is a touch of nose-led understeer if you overcook the entry, but it is far milder than on the big cars, and once you are pointed the low-down torque drives you out with only gentle power oversteer. Because nothing is fighting you, small setup and input changes swing the balance either way — you tune it to taste rather than to fix a dominant fault.
On dirt and gravel that neutral balance turns into easy, progressive slides you can steer with the throttle. It is forgiving enough to catch by lifting rather than by a quick correction, which makes it a friendly car to learn rear-drive rotation in.
In a pack it holds its own — heavy enough to take contact and stable enough to keep its line, without the sluggish direction changes of the full-size cars.