My Lloyd's has the 5.0 badge, also stitched. Carpeted trunk mats are definitely the way to go if you don't throw super dirty shit in your trunk all the time. The extra friction that carpet mats give stops things from sliding around so easily in the back. The Lloyd's mat is worth every cent.
The 15-17 definitely need a catback exhaust. The 18 active exhaust mostly fixes the issue, so it can be left stock.
As long as you have the Performance Package, and either an aftermarket exhaust or the active exhaust, you can definitely leave the car stock.
People don't understand why you like cars. To most people, cars are nothing more than an appliance. Just like a dishwasher or a refrigerator. Cars serve only one purpose and that is to get them from point A to point B.
To these people, you are buying a new refrigerator every single year...
Here is the future of vehicles in America, which is apparently what the mainstream consumer wants.
Don't worry about the MPG though, bro! It's a hybrid!
Just think how easy it will be to find a parking space in the Costco parking lot in one of these! You can scan the entire parking lot...
I'm hoping that this is just a short 2nd coming of the SUV fad that we had from about 1997 until the recession. Remember when SUVs kept getting bigger and bigger and selling stupidly well, when Ford finally capped off the stupidity of the situation with the Excursion?
But I'm less hopeful in...
I was really looking forward to the next gen Focus RS. A 400hp hot hatch with the dampening issue fixed. Even the next Focus ST with the 2.3L ecoboost would have been a ton of fun on a budget.
Ford is probably too scared of the pushback to discontinue it. I'm sure they would love to axe the Mustang if they could. Instead the S550 will live on for who knows how long with, more than likely, very little innovation. Just slap in a hybrid engine in a couple years and sit back as Ford...