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Except that camber adjustment is built in. It's right there in the photo. Lowering will be for looks only - the car will be optimal as it is. And if the IRS is indeed designed in from the start, and the car is truly designed around it, then the stance will look right from the start too (versus...

That's been covered a million times before... it was briefly looked at for the 2005 and quickly abandoned, after which Ford of North American designed it's own (http://www.drivingenthusiast.net/sec-blog/?p=11329). The Falcon control blade suspension isn't going anywhere near the upcoming...

AGS has already been shown on mules. This is already well known.

The ride height isn't going to change. There are hard standards there for ground clearance which cannot be changed. However, the appearance of ride height can be improved. Without the enormous mass of the rear axle to swing around (where every action causes an equal reaction on the opposite side...

I've been reading Australian newspapers all morning... at least in the press they are resigned, not "bummed" (except a couple of labor activists). The bottom line is not only that it is loosing money, the product is not selling like it used to and it hasn't in years. It's already been...

Announced today. The Falcon nameplate will also end at that time, meaning it won't be attached to an imported car. Ford of Australia lost $600M in the last 5 years, and sales of the Falcon had tanked. An updated Falcon will arrive next year as planned, but that was in the pipeline and isn't...

*pilot production*. That means that way before the S550 comes out, they will build some on the same production line as the S197s when they are still being built and sold. Those are for verification and testing, will be used and then scrapped, production steps and methods will be adjusted if...

"Weight will drop by between 250 and 300 pounds. " Their target is clearly the current Mustang and Camaro, because the current Challenger is has the highest weight and largest size of any of the ponycars. Too bad they are shooting at yesterday's targets (the current large Mustang and...

Huh??? The F-150 is out-selling the Mustang by FAR... easily several times the volume.

Exactly - the EB3.5 would create an entirely new aftermarket line of business and attract an entirely new class of buyers. Anybody who has ever driven a TT Supra realizes the potential of this type of motor. And there isn't a tuned TT Supra on the road these days that doesn't make less than...

Except the F-150 owners who have actually bought an EcoBoost F-150 are all gaga over the engine. The Coyote F-150s are boring to drive by comparison (in their own words, and by any of us who have actually driven both). Drive them both and you'll find a really terrific motor in the EB3.5 that is...

So the GT500 puts more strain on a solid axle than a much lighter and as powerful ZR1 Corvette puts on it's IRS? No. And no, because the problem with the last run of IRS in 99-04 was that the assembly line process had to be very different, and slow down significantly when the more complex IRS...

That was for the 2005, not the 2015. And that's a production cost, not a price on the window sticker.

The update is of engines and transmissions... so no weight savings there. Unless the Nano replaces the 3.7... and that would be minimal.

NO - Ford said it would add 100 dollars in manufacturing costs, not the price of the car. Five grand is ridiculous. Here is exactly what happened to the IRS that was designed and ready go for the 2005: http://www.drivingenthusiast.net/sec-blog/?p=11329. Let’s make sure we all know who to...

This, BTW, is a King Cobra. Be real scared, because this is what happened last time Ford took significant weight out of the Mustang, and also abandoned the competition against the Camaro (and it didn't even do well against the Monza). I test drove one of these in the spring of 1978... I didn't...

Many of you have seen the post with my extensive spreadsheet showing specifications of the 2013 Mustang against the new 2015 and what I call the 2018 (a spring of 2017 update to incorporate Ford's latest engines and transmissions, none of which are ready in the spring of 2014, but which are...

It'd be hard to imagine loosing 300 pounds for this rework... unless they spent some big money somewhere we can't see yet. Like dropping the middle of the frame out of the car like ye olde SN95/Fox. That would take some weight out of the middle of the car.. with the added benefit of putting the...

The economics here is sharing the platform with other cars. The ATS/CTS/Camaro saves costs all across the board. It's so good that there can be individual; variances in length and width.As for engines, the truck line pays for the LT1, and rich uncle Cadillac pays for the expensive to development...

They do have a brand above it, and do benefit from enormous financial trickle-down. It's the F-150, which paid the bills for the 3.7 and 5 liter engines 2 years ago. Same for the LT1 - when you have a truck selling several hundred thousand units a year with the same engine, that's who pays...