Trying to find the elusive "sweet spot". I like the Mustang styling and practicality (visibility, trunk size, semi-usable back seat) more than the Camaro by a long shot, but a potent V6 in the Camaro has me wishing the Mustang offered something similar. So that got me thinking of a ranking by...
I forget where I read it, but someone made a great point that there is a difference between commuting and driving...drives you have to do and drives you choose to do. Most won't miss the former, but hopefully there will be room for the latter. From a pure numbers standpoint, motor vehicle deaths...
Edmunds did a graph with 3.31 vs. 3.73 http://www.edmunds.com/ford/mustang/2015/long-term-road-test/2015-ford-mustang-gt-short-gearing-is-fun-gearing.html
Finally found a PP car to test drive. Timing wise it ended up at rush hour in a congested area, so while coming up short in testing the car's capabilities, it was a decent daily driver test. Certainly enjoyed it and my fears of it being "too much" for daily driving use were erased. But I did...
My car history is a '90 Geo Prizm -> '04 Impala -> '13 Mustang. Trying to continue the trend of going up ~100 HP! With the last two, "I thought, wow, who needs anymore power than this?"
On my GT test drive I just referenced above, I didn't really focus on the handling, as a.) seemed better...
Appreciate all of the feedback!
To address the first & last points here: I don't see it as a 100% certainty that I would feel compelled to upgrade, and in fact, I think it is more likely, based on the usage factors described, that I would be more likely to be frustrated by the PP on a...
Considering a new GT at some point soon, so I was curious if anyone has gone non-performance pack to start, and then modded handling components later. I've obviously seen that the cost of the package is less than it would be to get the parts individually, but:
- I plan to daily drive it...
Probably varies from state to state, but I have Geico in PA and they said a brand new GT would be ~$200 more per year compared to my '13 V6. Over 5 years that's ~$1000, but much less of an increase than I anticipated.
EDIT... So of course give your insurance company a call. It took like 5...
Ugh, I want to trade in my '13 some time during the spring/summer since it will need new tires before fall and the warranty will expire in August. But I'd hate to get a '16 or '17 when one more year of patience could mean a much improved Mustang.
Looked at a Camaro recently too and then went...
Any thoughts on the possibility of the EcoBoost getting a HP bump? Looks like the recently announced Focus RS has a 350 HP 2.3L Ecoboost, so I wonder if that would be a possibility for the Mustang or if the Focus RS alterations are the reason for that car's high price. Also looks like Sync 3...