2018 Mustang Engineering Insights & Stories - Autoline

This video from Autoline After Hours is nearly an hour long but well worth the watch. There's a lot of really interesting behind the scenes stories and insights into the engineering & development of the 2018 Mustang.

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TOPIC: Engineering Insights & Stories On The 2018 Mustang

01:07 – Carl Widdman, Mustang Chief Engineer, Ford; Tom Barnes, Mustang Engineer, Ford
25:36 – Mark Schaller, Mustang Marketing Manager, Ford
36:46 – Panel Discussion

PANEL:
- John McElroy, Autoline.tv
- Gary Vasilash, Automotive Design & Production
- Roman Mica, TFLCar.com
- Nik Miles, OurAutoExpert.com

Definitely worth an hour of your time

I want to watch it but I don't :shrug: the temptation grows every day :lol:

Kristian87 said:

I want to watch it but I don't :shrug: the temptation grows every day :lol:

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Go on.....you know you want Gibbo's cancelled order

There literally isn't any other way I'd want to spend my Friday evening. Sounds like I'm kidding, but I'm actually really excited to watch this one. Thanks for posting!

First 26 minutes is really the only interesting part IMO.

So apparently the Mustang team focuses their efforts inwards in trying to build the best Mustang ever. They rely on the Ford Performance team for the outward competition an trickle their stuff down into the GT...so I guess we have the GT-350 to blame for the GT's lesser performance to the Camaros.

Kevin08 said:

First 26 minutes is really the only interesting part IMO.

So apparently the Mustang team focuses their efforts inwards in trying to build the best Mustang ever. They rely on the Ford Performance team for the outward competition an trickle their stuff down into the GT...so I guess we have the GT-350 to blame for the GT's lesser performance to the Camaros.

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It's a very cost effective way of doing.

Great vid, thanks for sharing.

Pretty informative. A lot of good info on how and why the car works so well. Also very interesting is that 73 % of buyers are between the ages of 48 to 68 years old and they prefer the Standard Transmission (At 41:44) and are willing to wait for their order rather than buy one off the lot.

Interesting that the Focus RS team tuned the Ecoboost Mustang.

Got a great laugh at 6:27...
https://youtu.be/Ufv7UfyAWWY?t=6m27s

An informative and well done production. Thanks for linking this one.

Sig556 said:

Pretty informative. A lot of good info on how and why the car works so well. Also very interesting is that 73 % of buyers are between the ages of 48 to 68 years old and they prefer the Standard Transmission (At 41:44) and are willing to wait for their order rather than buy one off the lot.

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I was past 68 when I ordered my 15 . I just ordered my 7th special order Mustang V8. The first was a 69 manual, followed by a manual 88, auto 97 (which we still own because my wife loves it), a manual 01, auto 12, and a manual 15 GTPP which will be traded on an auto 18 GTPP. All have been daily drivers in stop/go traffic.

Kristian87 said:

I want to watch it but I don't :shrug: the temptation grows every day :lol:

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Do it!!!!!

We need 5.045 badges on the cars.

Driven 7 of these now.wile the auto is buttery smooth, it does hesitate about a full 1.5 seconds using the paddle shifters. That can be a win/lose if your racing on the track. Also, failed to ask why is Ford the only company rating its power 93/94 octane?. Because if done on 91 like everyone else. It's only 448 hp.