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I'm just curious how many cars you all test drove or researched before choosing a mustang. I know for some of us mustang isn't a choice but more of a lifestlye!

This is my personal story. was walking past an Enterprise one day with a friend and we were bored. Outside they had a race red Ecoboost vert (standard rental). We decided that for $75 for the day it should be a decent bit of fun.

Anyway we drove up the California coast on highway 1. It completely consumed me. All I could think about was mustang mustang mustang. Now here I am 4 years later about to pay off my gt.
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I sat in a Camaro and said, "This visibility and interior sucks". I drove the Mustang the same day and knew that's what I wanted. Didn't like the way the non-PP felt on the road compared to the PP so I knew right away exactly what I wanted.
 

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I bought an '04 because I wanted a rear-wheel drive sporty car, and it was one of few and the cheapest available (the Camaro wasn't even around at the time). in 2013, I was thinking of a Genesis Coupe, but I didn't fit in it (I'm only 6' 1", but the 3.8s only came with power seats and sun roofs, and that reduced the headroom too much), so I went and test drove a '14 GT, and loved it. The Camaro wasn't reviewed as well at the time, and I wasn't crazy about the looks.

At the time, I knew it was being revised for '15, but no one had seen it (this was mid-2013), and I figured I'd give it a few years to work out the bugs. Once the '18 refresh was announced, I liked it, and bought it. I had sat in a 6th gen Camaro at car shows and hated it, and never liked the looks, so to me, for the money, the '18 was a slam-dunk. A10, Magneride, digital dash - it hit every checkbox.
 

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I was at the Texas State Fair fall of 2005 and sat in a new S197. It fit me perfectly and I loved the new look. I saved up and October 2006 I bought a new S197. I kept her until 2010 when I went through a divorce and was forced to sell her. Fast forward to Jan 2017 and I was in a much better place. I fell in love with the LE WW 50th cars when they came out. I did some research and found mine in Dallas with 2978 miles that wasn't originally sold until October 2016. I hadn't sat in let alone drove a S550 until I bought her. Needles to say it's 10 times the car my S197 was and I will not let this one go.
 

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I've bought cheap econo-junk all my life; haven't had a car payment in 20+ years. I've never particularly cared about the car I drove because it's only job is getting me to point b. I like big bikes, though. I always got my jollies from twisting the throttle on bikes that are all motor; the bigger, the better. I hate having to wind something up to 5000 RPM to get any power out of it.

Well, one day, the USB port on my Civic Si dies; I can't get my daily dose of Dave Ramsey's podcast except over bluetooth, which has an unacceptable control delay on that car. So that set me in motion looking for something "new". I did a little soul-searching, and made the discovery that straight-line acceleration is the ticket for me. I don't need to turn good, I don't need to go 150 miles an hour. I just want to accelerate. Hard. I snuck away from work one lunchtime last December and took a test drive at CarMax just to see if this was indeed the thing. Turns out - yes, it was. Kids are grown up enough to have cars of their own, so I no longer needed 4 doors. Spent the next 3 months looking for just the right one.

Always had a soft spot in my heart for Mustangs starting in high school when I helped a buddy do a little light restoration on a Mach1. There really wasn't any other option for me - there's no other muscle car out there that pleases me aesthetically. And that sound... by the time you wind it up to 5000, you know it means business.
 

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The summer of 2017 I think I started a mid-life crisis. After nearly 30 years of owning trucks and motorcycles exclusively, I decided I wanted a fast sporty american v8 car. I was a die hard bowtie fan from my youth up until I bought my first new powerstroke superduty in 2011. I have always just hated Dodge/Chrysler products so I knew I was going to get either a Camaro, Corvette or Mustang. One of my closest friends had just bought and built a new generation Camaro (in the same color I would have gotten) and another buddy has a super nice and fast Cadillac CTS-V. So that left the Mustang GT, GT350 and Corvette. When I sat down and did the math on the GT with a plan to upgrade the suspension and add a whipple, the GT with mods was still cheaper than the GT350 and the Corvette in stock trim. But with better performance. So now I am a 700HP Mustang GT owner.

I do love my car, but I would not say I am in love with a mustang or its heritage. If I were to get a nostalgia car, it would be a 67 through 72 Camaro either RS/SS or split bumper or something like that.
 

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I didn't choose the Mustang life.....the Mustang life chose me :crackup:

As an Englishman, I'd admired Mustangs since I was a boy but never thought about owning one. I grew up loving Fords as my dad had a new company car every 3 years and I'd go to the dealer and get the latest brochures and memorize the specs. My first car was a Mk1 Fiesta, then a Mk3 Escort but what I really wanted was the Mustang's European cousin, the Capri. My 3rd car was a Mk3 Capri 1.6 as anything with a larger engine was a no-go on the insurance. After a few years I did manage to trade up to a Mk3 2.8i Special....and then another and then another! I had a bit of a dabble with a TVR as I wanted to scratch that V8 itch.....but the reliability pushed me to a Nissan 300zx Twin Turbo (hence my login name!) for a few years. But a California roadtrip in 2003 (followed by another the following year!) in a rented SN95 sowed a seed and I knew I had to get a Mustang. Once the S197 concept was launched that was the deciding factor and the hunt was on a couple of years later once a few S197s made their way over to the UK.

Mustang ownership has given me some amazing experiences and lots of great Mustang owning friends. I can't imagine being without a Mustang now :)
 

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I saw the prototypes in summer 2013 and knew I had to have one after that.
 

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I wanted one of the loudest, most obnoxious, cars out on the road. So I got this sum bich. It's pretty much the opposite of me. You know what they say about opposites attracting. It's true.
 

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My grandfather bought a 1966 Mustang (brand new) off the showroom floor. He passed it down to my dad, who has passed it on to me. 37,000 original basically one-owner (one-family?) miles. We still have the window sticker.

Fast-forward 25 years later when I had graduated college and was in the market for my first new car: in stepped a 1991 LX5.0, exactly 25 years newer than my 1966.

Exactly 25 years after that, it only seemed natural to buy a 2016, exactly 50 years after my grandfather.

Eagerly awaiting the 2041 model (for those of you mathematically-challenged, that would be 75 years after the 1966).
 

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I saw the prototypes in summer 2013 and knew I had to have one after that.
This, only for me it was an auto show in early 2014.

I had seen pics and was intrigued, and went to the auto show specifically to see the S550 in the flesh. They had a silver GTPP on the podium. My wife, who is largely indifferent to most cars in general, even commented on what a good looking car it was. She asked point blank as I stood there drooling, "You're going to buy one, aren't you?" At the time I had my '09 Bullitt, and knew its tenure was limited before I left the event center. I placed the order for mine the day after New Year, 2015.
 

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I was perfectly happy with my modded Lexus IS350 F-Sport and thought for once in my life I would keep a car for longer than 2 years. Then, right about that 2 yr mark the urge hit to at least look. Started researching for anything different but not convinced I would find something. My wife mentioned she would like to "someday" own a convertible. Also, we are only 7-10 years from semi-retiring to a car-free lifestyle in a Mexico beach town somewhere so "someday" might never happen. So, when Ford started offering large discounts in late-June 18 we decided we had to go check out a loaded PP1 GT 'Vert at a local dealer. 2 days of negotiation later it was ours.

Honestly, it's such a fun car and the confluence of events lined up nicely. Doesn't hurt that it offers M4 performance at 60% of the price which also supports early retirement goal.
 

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Drove (in order):
  • Mustang GT (I loved it, wife loved it)
  • Miata RF (I loved it more than the Mustang, wife hated it)
  • Mustang GT350 (I liked it, wife didn't)
  • M2 (I liked it more than the GT350, wife thought it was too much like my M235)
  • Camaro 1SS (I hated it, wife never got in it)

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