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Nice!!Hehe, I ordered it from Levittown few days ago too, for the White Madness Garage white shift knob
Should be but they arenāt. Stupid I changed my auto shifter out for a pistol grip and threw on a manual boot. Not trying to be a manual just looks cleaner. GM doesnāt have PRND next to the shifter for the automatic Corvettes.Hi! Should these āgearā indicators be backlit/ turn un at night? Mine donāt and I find it curiousā¦ thanks!
My 2018 is illuminated. Ford deleted that in later S550 Stangs.Hi! Should these āgearā indicators be backlit/ turn un at night? Mine donāt and I find it curiousā¦ thanks!
This and the glovebox light are not there from 2019 iirc.My 18 does.
"cost savings"i think at one point those letters did light up orange, but in 2020 (i think) Ford removed that and the glovebox light for who knows why
I keep hearing this, but frankly I don't get it. So it has a V8. So what? A V8 is still a lump of metal with some holes in it, through which some pistons move up and down. OK, you have eight pistons instead of four, eight spark plugs instead of four, but that doesn't mean it should cost an arm and a leg.I guess that's what gets us a V8 RWD performance car at a sub-stratospheric price though.
Find me a V8 in a true premium brand that is at the same price point.I keep hearing this, but frankly I don't get it. So it has a V8. So what? A V8 is still a lump of metal with some holes in it, through which some pistons move up and down. OK, you have eight pistons instead of four, eight spark plugs instead of four, but that doesn't mean it should cost an arm and a leg.
Let's put it this way. How much is a crate Coyote? I believe it's about $10K give or take, right? That leaves between $30K and $40K, depending on the optional extras, for the rest of the car. And you get a car that's much more sloppily built, with noticeably worse materials, than one that costs just $30K to $40K altogether, engine included.
So, the fact that it has a V8 doesn't seem like a good excuse to me.
That's because you're paying for the premium brand part more than for the V8 itself.Find me a V8 in a true premium brand that is at the same price point.
So my original comment still stands. Fords is a NOT premium brand, and there are very few choices when comes to finding a V8 other than premium brands. Chevy and Dodge are getting out of the game and they have the exact same level of "non-premiumness" that our Mustangs have anyway.That's because you're paying for the premium brand part more than for the V8 itself.
That's the fallacy. You see V8 engines in premium brands, which are expensive by nature, and therefore you think V8s should be expensive. But they shouldn't. They're only expensive because the market has come to accept the idea of them being expensive.
There aren't. Which is why Ford can afford to charge whatever they want. But that doesn't mean the Mustang is cheap. It's extremely expensive for what it is, it's just that the market is willing to pay the price for lack of better options.So maybe I should have said what other options are there other than premium brands with V8 performance?