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And they aren't even an S197 underneath. They were built on Thunderbird chassis, retained the full all-alumiunum SLA and IRS suspensions fr/rr, and used the supercharged 4.6 DOHC engines that were intended for production and then cancelled at the last moment. So we got rooked by shockingly...

My mistake Fusion. Climb under a Fusion and you won't see a single component shared with the 2015 Mustang IRS. Period. Ridiculous. I;m talking to my service manager now who is laughing his ass off.

Rediculous. Climb under a Fusion and show just one part that could be in common. There isn't a single one. This rumor has no validity at all.

I can't believe there are numbers sufficient to cause the design of the car to be set back. But there is another perspective here. Why change to a solid axle? Would you change your Viper, or the C7, or the GT-R? All those drivers will aggressively stay with their present suspensions and they...

Of course it's jibber-jabber. Look at the spy pic of the S550 IRS and then climb under a Fusion. 100% apart. Unrelated. Totally different in every single dimension. And, BTW, having to serve an entirely different amount of torque! What a silly statement he made.

Ideally, there is a very different floorpan since the car doesn't have to manage the hundreds of pounds of weight swinging up and down (always fighting with itself to shift weight in the wrong direction). The differential will be in a fixed position, which would allow for a much lower trunk...

Conspiracy theories don't work here. Nobody inside Ford went off, justified a huge budget, and designed a brand new suspension to stick under a maybe-planted mule just to set the press off on a tangent. Nobody has budget like that or sets off to lie to the public like that. The IRS is a reality...

Yea, it could be. But was it a compromise of a clean sheet geometry (because full coilovers would have been far better for geometry and would even have made assembly easier), or was it simply because the car evolved from the current one? Many things add up in the suspension, interior, and under...

They may well have... but the professional spy photogs aren't in business for our benefit.. they get their money from selling to other manufacturers. This is big bucks. Secondary bucks are to car magazines. We certainly didn't see all of the images that were taken. You never do when you shoot...

It might be easier than we might initially think. Because the new IRS' spring and shocks are in the identical place to where they are in the S197 (supporting my view that the S550 is simply an evolved S197), part of the problem is solved. By contrast, look at what GM does to build a COPO...

That Fusion IRS idea is totally ridiculous. "This guy" heard "IRS" and made the really dumb assumption that all IRSs are similar. Some people also think that because the Fusion and Mustang will be built inside the same piece of real estate, that they must have some hard platform engineering in...

Ford announced new engine technology in April: http://www.drivingenthusiast.net/sec-blog/?p=8307 ;-)

Finally, a render which isn't somebody's childhood dream. Their artist has looked at the prototypes rolling around Dearborn, and it reflects those except for the height of the tires and maybe the rear side window. The slap-like side, the roofline, side glass, mirrors, the line of the front...

And it's dead wrong.. it doesn't match up with the prototypes we've seen.

This is ridiculous. The Camaro had already been cancelled and out of production. They had to say something to keep people on their side. The Mustang is in production, and sales are rising. Telling people not to buy now, and not to buy until a date TBD sometime in the future, is just plain stupid.

That testing is of separate individual pieces. This is the full integrated package, along with calibration.

The New York show is April 18–27, 2014. And the Mustangs Across America drive lines up exactly, too. So, while an announcement hasn't been made yet, the stars are all aligning on the exact same dates.

RHD has already been confirmed for Britain for a "future Mustang"... so an announcement is hardly a surprise for Australia. It's "free" publicity, and much-needed after the Falcon defeat (and continuing good press about the Commodore). Lets also hope for some good news in the next year from the...

You can't read too much into this image... it's obviously just a slight update since it's also out of production two years later. Anything more is a very pointless financial mistake.

I saw that quote originally. The 2.3 (or 2.0?) EcoBoost Mustang won't and can't compete in the same market as the Focus ST. Based solely on size and weight alone (and especially gasoline and insurance rates in Europe - which are both far worse than here), the cars are on two different planets...