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I see... just "good enough". Not the best they can do. Under this philosophy they just could have stayed with the 4.6. Lets face it... one year later the Camaro will be "nipping at it's heals". A brand new Camaro, not sharing a V-8 with the old Camaro, but with the 29 MPG 'vette. And a Camaro...

Exactly - the S550 GT might have 450 HP - might - but it won't have 450 torque. And if it weighs more or less identical to the Alpha Camaro... then bad news.

That *possible* 3300 pounds weight is based on the base ATS weight, with a 4 cylinder, so it would be possible. Suggesting that somehow GM engineers would add weight to the Camaro to keep it heavier than the Corvette is ridiculous... in this day and age of 54.5 CAFE on the horizon, that would be...

(from my site, where I have >150 concepts.Note that back in 2007, TwinForce was the name for what was later re-branded EcoBoost. Also note that several show cars were built for Ford and Lincoln using rear wheel drive platforms, including the Forty-Nine, Five Hundred, Interceptor, MK 9, L2K, and...

The S550 is not using control bade IRS. We've all seen the pictures of the S550 rear suspension and it's absolutely not a control blade design. Which is a darn good thing because control blade is just a bunch of cheap-to-produce stampings with poor geometry.

Well certainly a transverse front wheel drive platform will be used for the rear wheel drive V-8 powered Mustang. I've been wrong all along.:doh: You missed the point all along of what I've wrote - and what this thread started with before it devolved into things other than the dimensions of the...

The S550 is indeed Fox to SN95. All the dimensions line up, the mules show the commonality underneath, and the budget only allows so much. The term "all new" is the most mis-used term in this business... Ford will pitch this as all new, as they did with the SN95, and a few years later many of...

It's not. If you look at the pictures of the inside of the car, the sill line and the camo line are one and the same.

Exact measurements will have to wait until I get to my drafting table... but here are the measurements of the 2015 as I see them (while sitting in an airport and with a large printout and a borrowed ruler). Wheelbase 107.1" (2013" 107.1) (this is just an evolved S197, after all) front...

I was an original SVO owner... bought off the lot for an open track event the next weekend at watkins glen. The SVO was the top of the line premiun mustang in both performane and content (and I should know since I also owned a GT before and after the SVO). My 83 GT was a true pos with worthless...

The problem is that next spring when you see a 2015 parked next to a 2014, with it's gaping wheel wells and big-ass trunk hanging way back, you'll feel really bad. That's the way this stuff works (except in 1974). Take the year to save up an extra 1k down payment. Be smart and save up 2k...

Pods on the a-pillar are a standard way of mounting test gauges. Has nothing in common with the usual aftermarket-type turbo poseur stuff. Exhaust tips are for testing indoors - a flexible exhaust hose clamps down over those. Not only for safety, but when emissions testing everything has to be...

These aren't mules any longer. They are prototype builds. They have either been built on a special prototype assembly line, or (if the schedule has advanced enough) at the Flat Rock site on the regular line.

We **do not** want the 7 speed Tremec. The gear ratios are entirely wrong for this engine.

All very interesting... and a bit less "farther out" than the Evos might have indicated. It's fairly conventional, unfortunately. Sadly, Ford appears to have given us a Camaro (the camo does not hide the actual high window sill), with slits for windows. If true, it's a huge step backwards...

Easy: A ton of electronics can make even a car with it's engine in the trunk handle well.

That is so ridiculous to claim. A FWD/AWD transverse engine chassis that can also be used for a RWD inline engine product. And maintain any kind of weight balance. And have the structure to support everything up thru a 600 HP V-8. What an absurd and totally unsupportable claim.

You are missing the point entirely, and drawing the 180-degree wrong conclusions form where Ford is taking this. The "same old same old" crude Mustang doesn't cut it anymore. Solid axles and low-tech engines don't work. Especially for more sophisticated audiences world wide, which have shown...

Per other threads here, the next Camaro will likely end up as light as the next Mustang, or even a tiny bit better. In any case, there won't be the kind of disparity there is now. And on a better chassis. As for the "unnamed Ford insider" - well that may well be BS since these people always...

Don't read anything into that speculation yet, it's too soon. And I'd like nothing more than to see a RWD Lincoln again, especially since I also have an LS (built on the platform that was originally intended to be used for the Mustang, too). But if the next MKS is to be the same huge size as it...