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With the election decided today, there won't be any bigger engines for the Mustang... the Federal standards will stay on their original path of major increases in mileage and decreases in emissions, if they are not accelerated. The only way the 6.8 could fit into this reality is if it rev'd...

Look more closely at CD6... this unibody platform has an almost identical rear suspension to the current Mustang, a much-improved double a-arm front suspension on the Aviator, and aluminun shock towers and front structure. It was purposefully designed to be a lightweight and scalable platform...

I don't believe the 6.8 is a reality, only that it's the Union leader's hopes and dreams for more work in that engine plant. I'd want to see the Union's contract, which yes can sometimes reveal future plans. Whether it actually comes out in anything at all is dependent upon next Wednesday's...

We need to put an end to this total misconception that CD6 would mean a larger and heavier Mustang... just because it's current users are the larger Explorer and Aviator. CD6 is scalable in length and width... it does not mean a larger or heavier Mustang (and CD6 is certainly *not* a truck!)...

And that was strange since it was shown there in a publicized video. And just recently we found that it wouldn't have passed Euro emissions.

The question is "how are you driving your car". Putt-putting around is one thing, track events are another. When it was built, what parts were used. There is clearly a warranty issue with some cars under some circumstances and most of us know people who have gotten entire engines, or just lived...

Phenomenal piece of work, Ford Performance at it's best. But, too heavy, and drinks way too much oil. That needs to be fixed before this engine comes back, if ever.

What value does the Falcon brand have in the market anymore? Here in North America Falcon was a creative program 60 years ago, purposefully modest in execution, then fell behind and the up-market Torino took it's place. Nobody wanted "modest" anymore by the late 60s or nowadays. People who...

CD6 is not a "CUV" or "SUV", it's a flexible platform that was designed to be used for a variety or purposes. It's Ford's version of the Alpha or FM platforms, both very successful platforms that enabled sports cars that would not have existed otherwise (Camaro and Z) while hosting far higher...

Ford is in a really crucial couple of months here... The Mach-E can be a big hit... IF it's launched as promised (notice how many press statements have been made about that), IF it drives well, IF it has the battery range (which is does not). And it's limited by battery supplies to only 50k...

As soon as that infamous spy pic was published showing the IRS underneath an S197, you realized that S550 was just a reworked S197... open up the CAD, rework here and there, and you have S550. Looking underneath at the floor plan at the launch events, seeing the location of all the hard points...

I see the S650 as a very small-step evolution of the current car... architecturally adding accommodation for a hybrid battery, some very minor engine work with the existing engines, freshening of the front fenders. Not any major weight loss. I can't believe that in this financial climate S650...

Excellent news - especially with the much-needed coolers all around. Where the GT PP2 without them is a total limp-home fail for track events. And no fake scoops! Only bad news is the missing rear Brembos... instead we're stuck with ye old tiny iron single-piston calipers... and lack of the...

So nothing here we didn't already know - and no details at all other than the revised front end (lots of air flow) , Cup 2, and the existing PP2 Brembos. Nice to see that it doesn't have any juvenile fake scoops. The pics purposefully didn't show the rear brakes of the Mach 1... but the spy pics...

Ford is behind in it's launches, both Broncos and the F-150 are waiting to be announced and introduced - even if production is months delayed. And look at the stock - just awful. A forward-looking announcement of the Broncos right now - streamed not live - would go a long way to reversing the...

Not at all.. CD6 was designed for variable width and length. A claim in some enthusiast site some time ago speculated that the new Mustang would have been the size of a Challenger is dead wrong... and certainly not desirable since that thing is a huge tank. CD6 is also aluminum intensive (in...

Great... another half-measure instead of the full benefits of platform sharing. So much for "One Ford". Apparently Ford hasn't learned any cost saving lessons from GM's Alpha or Infiniti/Nissan's FM.

I saw that article... but Autocar isn't always accurate. And it's already date sin regards to S650/CD6. This is a really interesting topic because export sales are critical to the Mustang's success... and to it's development budget. And obviously the V-8 is an important part of that export...

There is no possibility of that at all... the cost of re-engineering the entire front architecture of S550 to include driveshafts and the added width and length of the drivetrain is too high. And the resulting fr/rr weight balance - which is already very poor - would be far worse. AWD is...

No doubt the CD6 team could go for an optimum battery location since the platform was 100% clean-sheet (how often does Ford do that - and we've had two in the same year with the C2). An all-new platform is expensive, and it's modular as it was intended right from the start for use in multiple...