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No it doesn't - not at all. The Alpha team built the car from the start for multiple uses and knew at least the first three users. It's development budget included funds from all those users, and all those users benefitted from the common architecture. So it wasn't built for a single use, only...

Because Ford couldn't build it cheaply enough 15 years ago, and while they might be able to now it'd still be an orphan chassis without any other use. So there is no economy of scale, no benefit in doing a common chassis if it's only used in one place. No higher margin cars to spread the costs...

Yes, we know that the about front suspension. But I wasn't speaking of frame rails I was speaking of the front subframe itself. All we can see so far is the small brace visible just behind the front tires - and that is the same as the existing car. Hopefully next time somebody comes across one...

Yes, there are ways to make this current solid axle better, and a Watts linkage could be designed that is quiet too. There are other vehicles that have done this. But you still have the problem of enormous unsprung weight, and a packaging problem with having to allow room for the axle movement...

The DEW98 is probably more aluminum-intensive than the S550 and in today's dollars it would be more expensive to build. Importantly it has a double a-arm front suspension and lots of measures that resulted in a 50/50 weight balance. Ford's racing engineers did the geometry of the front and rear...

Lets clarify that... Ford dropped the planned (and fully developed) IRS in 2005 because of cost. That's it. There were a bunch of cheapwads involved (one is gone for good, one unfortunately just came back from exile). And Ford engineers bemoaned the loss, when they could talk about it at all...

The S550 is an evolution of the S197. Not likely to be any shared parts, but it's absolutely evolved from the S197. And you'll notice the tacit statement in this week's news that the "wheelbase is the same". Per my measurements of the prototypes wheelbase and other parts, we've known this for...

That extra convertible bracing is very interesting... the IRS gave them the ability to do it far differently than before. Much stronger.

Get used to it, this is what is coming. Anybody expecting a rolling Hot Wheels isn't going to be satisfied by anything from anybody. It's obvious it's real from it's CAD source, it's obvious from the prototype shots, and it's obvious from the mule shots (which made it very clear months ago...

Sure, but CCD is not anywhere near as capable as the magnetorheological shocks are. CCD is considerably cheaper. Magnetorheological are an entirely different plane of capability. And contrary to what some believe, they are not limited to GM vehicles. Ferrari and Land Rover, for one, use them...

I have personally been in a GT500 versus ZL1 session on a major road course, as instructor, and the GT500 lost overall. It's not about a small HP difference, it's about a HUGE suspension difference. And everybody who races know it's handling that counts. The GT500 (and the Boss, which I own one...

Thanks to Road & Track, there is a slideshow here of 24 styling concepts that led to the 1979 Mustang. http://kinja.roadandtrack.com/this-is-the-fox-body-ford-mustang-woody-wagon-shooting-1445860952 Granted this is dated. But it still shows how the creative part of the process works. Obviously...

Because it's not sitting on a carburetor 40 years ago, and it's not near an efficient location for a CAI.

You missed the point... sure anything is possible, but that's not the mission of this engine. It's mission is to support the CAFE average. That means it won't get 350 HP.

Why a fake hood scoop? It can't do anything valuable. Why does this car always have to have fake and utterly pointless scoops to appeal?

Not in 2015. That tranny is years off from being ready for the Mustang.

Don't count on 350... that's awfully highly tuned for what is supposed to be (and need's to be for Obama 54.5 CAFE) a fuel economy engine. How would you feel it if were only 270, or 300? And don't think that Mountune has or is going to have any more special relationship in this country with...

There will inevitably be lowering parts on the market... but notice the stance of the pre-production models. They don't have that open-fender 4x4 stance of the current car. The hard points are the same as the current car, but they've styled the body better and pushed the wheels out a bit...

WAY too late. There can be no "counteract". The car is done, committed, production tooling is underway, and prototypes are rolling down the existing production line soon if they aren't already (many months will be spent there, and the resulting product will have much higher build quality than...

This is it. Not to thru throw fuel in the fire, but the reality is that this is not the radical fantasy that some people wanted, nor a purely retro design. What it is stylistically is just a small step forward. A 2014 with a dose - a small dose - of Evos added in. The overall silhouette is...