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Another take on the 4.6L Quote "The 5th gen Mustang wasn't even serious competition until the 5.0 came along in 2011. Having owned a 2013 5.0, the coyote is what made the car what it is, that high revving beast with small displacement is a technical marvel." I believe Ford Sold more 16valve...

SVTClark is (IMO) correct It is worth restating my last post. Ford hung with a lame duck solid axle S197 for five years against a radical new (400+HP, IRS) Camaro 5. Mustang did all right, 92% of Cam5. Camaro is doing a short one year lame duck against Mustang 6 (400+HP, IRS). Mustangs leaving...

Apples to Apples Studying “Deliveries Since April 2009” sales, Camaro5 is the five year every year leader. Mustang soldiered on with the S197 solid rear axle platform, selling, since Apr '09, 91.5% of the leader Cam5 sales. Not too shaggy for an '04 and half lame duck platform. S197 led or...

Like others i have stayed away from stripes. However, the GT350 Badge is a Mustang heritage thing and the historic models all had the dual broad stripes. I think that is what Ford is doing striping this car. Stripes or no stripes this GT350 is all the car I could want. I think the stripes are a...

Thanks to MagneticA I appreciate the posters review of his 2015 V6 sent in private message. It confirms my own calculation about engines. Even though the 5.0 Coyote is super it is overkill for the way I will use the car-DD. Like MagA I have always steered away from forced induction. There is a...

To: MagneticA I am interested in the '15 V6. Can you write a review of your Mustang? I am most interested in comments about the transmission. edco

Mustang6 in person The Ford dealer, Sunset Hills, MO. has 16 Mustang6s lined up on the front lot. Walking down the row gives that "want to buy one thing." The design is a combo of cool, performance, aero, and some elegance. Elegant is not a word I would describe either of the two Mustangs I...

I think it takes two years to make the sheet steel body forming dies, plastic injection molds, and transfer lines to build an auto. If Camaro 6 is one year away, and I don't know anything about the schedule, the final design would be completed now. Spy shots and mules could be accurate, or maybe...

Trends The 5th generation retro Mustang started an automotive trend. For that matter, the 1st generation Mustang started an automotive trend. As Sonny and Cher sang "The Beat Goes On". Granting the aspects are not identical, the stang is actual and the cam is artist rendered, the overall shape...

Thanks for posting your thoughts. i agree. The Mustang II is always put on 10 worst cars list. Only because it is compared to an image of Shelby GT500KR. '74 through '80 no one would buy a GT500KR. Fuel was too costly. Don't think it belongs on any worst car list. They sold a bunch. The drivers...

The analytic sales graphs assume muscle cars were created in April 2009, when gen5 Camaro launched. Camaro5 was advanced tech (IRS, 400+HP, Tremec 6061) and targeted Mustang. It succeeded. Since 2009 Cam5 has outsold S197 by 8.7%. Note, newer tech Cam5 competed in the back five years of the...

There are a few posts here and a few more on Camaro5 indicating the Nov 14 Mustang sales numbers are due to closeout discounted 2014 Mustangs. I do not think that is true. I followed the closeouts very carefully in my region (500 mile radius) in October. I was looking for a deal on a V6 with...

Here's your gas cap, eat it up or spit it out

in interest of fair disclosure Also have H&R 25mm track spacers on all four corners. With a Fays2 Watts link the cornering performance is super. Went for the track spacers because I do not like staggered wheels and was worried about 275/40R18 rubbing in the front. 4 of kind allows tire...

Thanks-deep dish bullitt spokes 18x10" rims (all four) with 275/40R18 summer tires.

faux Gas cap-what is the deal? Look at the rear of my 07GT. I guess the round badge is a "faux gas cap" but I never considered that until reading the outrage here. I liked it and elected to keep it. There are after market rear panels that eliminate it. Some are smooth black, some are louvered...

2015 Mustang may be best driving Ford ever! The gen 6 Mustang, relative to S197 (a very good handling car), retains the 107" wb. The front track is increased by 50mm, the rear track is increased by 70mm (think about that!). The car has a lower center of gravity and a lower roll center. The...

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15 Mustang maybe Fords best driving car ever The gen 6 stang retains the 107" wb, but adds 50mm to the front track and 70mm to the rear track (compared to S197-think about that!). The front McPhearson is an advanced design copied from nothing I have ever seen. With electronic power steering the...

I think the faux gas cap maybe optional, like side stripe delete on the current V6. I am not sure it is meant to be a faux gas cap. I have something similar on my GT. I never thought of it as a gas cap. It is part of Mustang badging. Tri-Bar Pony/GT/Round Badge/emblem delete, why would you not...