How long do you intend to keep you current mustang

[_zOmbIE_]

Until Farley leaves and the Mustang Design Team isn’t a bunch of hack-job, no talent, gamers regurgitating a prior platform as a Dodgemaro and gluing iPads to dashboards….

The whole tablet thing is industry wide, so I think you might be waiting a while for that to go away.

Agreed on the whole design language of the S650 being too much copy-cat of other brands though.

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[Bikeman315]

Until Farley leaves and the Mustang Design Team isn’t a bunch of hack-job, no talent, gamers regurgitating a prior platform as a Dodgemaro and gluing iPads to dashboards….

So, I guess forever!

 

[skinnyb]

No plans to trade. YET, but I always do eventually. My average for cars is 2.5 years, and my Mustang will hit that around Christmas. I get bored and the itch to trade by then usually. BUT, I do love mine currently and the S650 doesn't appeal to me yet. Maybe a nice 21-23 Mach1 Handling pack or even a GT500 would get me out of it at this point, but with the market where it is, I don't see that happening. So I keep blue for a while longer...

 

[Bikeman315]

The whole tablet thing is industry wide, so I think you might be waiting a while for that to go away.

Agreed on the whole design language of the S650 being too much copy-cat of other brands though.

Well, could it have been better? Sure. Was it? No. Could it hopefully in the future? I hope so. Are the screens going away soon? Not on your life.

 

[Silver Bullitt]

I never bought this car with the intention of keeping it forever, but I ordered exactly what I wanted and none of those wants have changed. I’m at 23K 6+ years in. It’s still as fun to drive today as it was on day one (probably actually a little funner as I know the car much better now). I’m 61 now, and at the current rate of less than 4K per year, I’ll be driving this thing until the pee stains in my seat get too stinky for me to sit in. I sold my 2005 GTO that I’d driven only 41K miles in 12 years when I thought my days of needing fast cars was over. Boy was I wrong about that. While I still miss my Goat, I won’t make that mistake again with the Mustang.

 

[Justpassingas]

No intentions to sell …It’s a keeper….Till death do us part.

 

[I Bleed Ford Blue]

I got lucky and found the exact spec mach 1 I wanted while you could still get them new. I plan on giving it to my kid when I can't drive anymore. Then she can avoid all the probate BS.

 

[MAGS1]

I usually run through cars every few years but my GT is the first car I’ve ever custom ordered. I do like S650 but some tweaks need to be made before I entertain one (better integration of the screens, maybe add a few knobs?). But really, I’m in add-to-the-garage mode now. Going to test drive a C7 Grand Sport later today and still have GT500’s on my mind.

As to CJ’s Farley comment. He’s the guy you WANT running Ford. He’s bringing in the GTD when he could’ve said nah, we don’t need to do that. He’s a racer and a car guy. Yeah he’s doing the electric nonsense but he’s keeping the V8 around when others are bowing out. Better decisions need to be made about certain things, yes I agree there. But I’d rather have him running the show than Barra or the bum running Dodge/Stellantis. Car guys/gals running car companies is a good thing in the long run

 

[SBR70.3]

V8's are dying. Manual transmissions too. I'm keeping mine until the day I die. Few things put a smile on my face like firing up my car.

 

[MAGS1]

V8's are dying. Manual transmissions too. I'm keeping mine until the day I die. Few things put a smile on my face like firing up my car.

I don’t know if manuals will ever totally go away but I can see them becoming an option that you have to pay for vs being standard equipment. Ford has now baked in the price of an automatic in their S650 pricing for 2025 models, so I think that’s the direction they’ll eventually go.

 

[WItoTX]

Probably when I can afford a GT4. Hopefully in another 3 years.

I do love the car. But since it's solely track time now, I want something already designed for track time. And I've gotten over the modification game.

I do love my GT350 though, and I'll absolutely miss it. Fantastic car for sure. Has a personality, fast, great on track, surplus of performance parks for it, and it's beautiful. Really can't ask for anything more than that. I hope I sell it to a friend and watch the car develop more.

 

[RowdyRam]

V8's are dying. Manual transmissions too. I'm keeping mine until the day I die. Few things put a smile on my face like firing up my car.

I agree. Same with my Mustang and Hemi Ram. Both are just, I don't know, satisfying in their own ways. The burbles, the runs to redline, the power delivery, etc.

I get in my wife's 6-cyl Highlander, which is a fine vehicle honestly, and it's not the same. You can hardly even hear it when it's running at idle. It has plenty of power, but less character. I will say for road trips it's superior to the other two, heck that's why we got it, but I wouldn't trade my Mustang for one.

 

[cynicalwill]

Until it becomes too much money to repair

 

[mustang_puppy]

I somewhat concur with @cynicalwill. Definitely agree with @Justpassingas. If some dumb bastard does what happened to my '98 coupe, hopefully I can use at least some of the mods I've put on for a newer S550 with as low miles as I could find. Once in a long while though, I've considered trading mine for an automatic because sometimes I get tired of shifting and my left foot bothers me. There's a still new Fighter Jet Gray Mach 1 at the local Ford dealer... It's automatic... Pretty loaded but doesn't have the handling pack... Wonder how much the payments would be if I traded mine in... Nah, my car belongs to me and I'm keeping it as long as possible.

 

[mustangman02232]

Plan on keeping mine a while, I have a ranger as a daily and a f350 for work so I’m trying to keep the needless miles off, see what the future brings for exactly how long though,

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