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So now we know who inside Ford made the decision to pull out of the car business. Ford is in free fall. http://www.autoextremist.com/current/2018/5/5/ford-in-free-fall.html If you aren't reading Pete DeLorenzo's blog, you are missing the high-octane truth.

There are a lot more Ford products coming, just not in the "sedan" form factor. And "Mach 1" is not a product name, it's a project name. A project to build a performance electric vehicle. Production name TBD. And except for the SUV (or maybe low roof SUV) factor that most of us don't like, the...

Absolutely... the current SHO (and soon to be dead), is a huge pig compared to the original SHO (of which I had two). It's huge, heavy (4,368 base) and ungainly. By comparison, the Fusion Sport is a good size, agile, and much more comfortable. The 3.5EB won't fit this chassis, but the 2.7 and...

The new Taurus - aka the Chinese market Taurus, was never going to come to North America under any circumstances. It's built on an enlarged Fusion chassis, the same one that is used for the Continental. And that's the problem... if the new Taurus was sold here, it'd be a cheaper version of the...

Behold the 380 lb-ft torque 2017-2018 Fusion Sport engine: a twin turbo EcoBoost V-6 - the same engineering masterpiece also used in several other Ford and Lincoln products. And note the 380 lb-ft of torque: the same rating as the late Boss 302 Mustang. You feel it when you drive the Fusion...

The ST and RS may not be dead in North America - remember that they have not yet been announced as products anywhere, much less as products for sale (only a verbal confirmation that the ST will use a detuned 2.3), so there cannot yet be an announcement cancelling them for North America. The new...

Those were actually caught in one spy picture some time ago.

This could be a '19 or 20 GT350. The GT350 needs to be caught up... the GT's dual injection system (a system being quickly adopted, even the 1.5l 3 cylinder has it now) would add some much needed HP and torque. And the GT350 needs to be positioned better as an intermediate step between the GT...

Pretty tame... much less so than previous prototypes. How do we know that this isn't an updated 2019 GT350?

Right on, and then the driver can improve their driving skills and knowledge of the track(s) without being hindered mechanically when the car eventually comes up against it's cooling limits. The 1LE and GranSport have done the right thing there, and are very good choices themselves with very...

I've used the MGW unit in the past, but the shifter wasn't the problem with my '13 Boss. Wide open throttle, on the back straight of COTA, the transmission was so torqued that it wouldn't shift. Going into 5th required a big pause, as a result I only got to 152 MPH back there. Probably the...

More importantly, let this be a lesson. He was at the top, bringing the best products to market - but a series of errors in judgement took him all the way to the bottom and out. Ford did the right thing.

Oh? Look at your fluid after several events and then tell us if the diff is still working as expected. It isn't. I said it, and I have 30 years of track experience and 20 years of instructing all types and brand of cars. Have fun driving casually, but if you improve someday you will start to...

The diff cooler is a very nicely engineered piece of work.. I saw it at the GT350 press day where they had a car on it's side and we could closely look at everything. It's a quality piece of work, much better than an aftermarket piece would be. And it is expensive. The transmission is a...

It's a two-year run because the Mustang is being wound down and then replaced right after that with the next generation. Same as the RS is being wound down (which prompts some to post emergency "oh no" posts even though the same thing is obvious) before the all-new Focus is announced in April...

Simple, I was at the GT350 press launch, saw all of the parts and handled them, test drove the car at high speed, and have over 100 pictures of all the parts in close detail. I also told the Ford engineers there and the Team Mustang folks that the suspension bits of the GT350 should be put on...

There are a lot more questions than this - for example, without the wider GT350 front fenders, what's the turning circle? Has Ford had to cut steering travel to keep the bigger tires off the inside of the fenders? This has happened before in past Mustangs that weren't designed for the larger...

Good news that there are two years to get one (while waiting for the markups to disappear)... but not a surprise. The Mustang will then begin it's transition to the next generation.

Thanks.. I hated to write it but it's true. And I hated to read that Motor Trend article but I already know it from my own experience with both cars. Ford needs to do better... and they are focusing elsewhere by necessity. One more thing about the Camaro: I have instructed many students with...

It's time to put an end to this idea that PP2 provides any viable HPDE track capability. I'm a Ford guy all the way back (in fact back to the 2nd ever Ford dealer in PA!), and it pains me to say this, but it's true (and I've been driving and instructing in track events for 35 years). The PP1...