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Those black triangles look like some sort of camouflage.
 

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I really fail to see how this is an improvement over the OEM bumper cover. It's 95% the same with an ugly piece of flat black plastic stuck on the triangular area underneath the blinker.

The #2018missedopportunityoftheyearaward goes to Roush.
 

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I really fail to see how this is an improvement over the OEM bumper cover. It's 95% the same with an ugly piece of flat black plastic stuck on the triangular area underneath the blinker.

The #2018missedopportunityoftheyearaward goes to Roush.
that's what I was saying. I wonder if ford didn't let them completely change it like they have in the past with 15-17s and before. Ford probably didn't want them doing something better.

Roush definitely is holding back. This does not look like an entire different fascia like the one on my car. This looks like addon pieces. Ford had to have a say in this.
 
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Roush do apprear to have taken the Steeda (15-17) approach (or, probably, more accurate, the same approach Roush took with the 13/14MY).........fundamentally the same look, just tweaked to be slightly more aggressive.

I'll reserve final judgement until we get some clear photos of the finished article, but I'm liking what I see so far :)


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Good info, thank you.

And what a busy weekend you had! Getting to sit in the '18GT, talking to Carl Widmann.....talking to friends at Roush! I'm jealous :D

Thanks! I've had a good and long association with Roush and made many good friends there. Besides being a consumer of their products, I was a member of the Roush Road Racing team for 2 years with Jack Jr and Billy Johnson in Grand Am and for one year with Jack Jr in PWC.

I attended a 4 day event in Wisconsin Dells Wisconsin from Thursday to Sunday. It is a great event called Cruise For A Cause. It is a Mustang and Ford vehicle event to raise money for cancer research. Ford, Ford Performance and Roush are all sponsors of the event and had people their to represent them. So, talking with my Roush buddies was made easy by all of us being their together and Carl Widmann drove the 2018 Mustang to the event, as well as being the keynote speaker at the event banquet. Part of the event is a car show and Carl was there with the Mustang. As luck would have it, I walked up to him and the car when nearly no one else was around and was able to have some great one on one time with him and the 2018 Mustang.
 

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Y’all forgetting the all so different Roush front end for the 13/14 cars all of a sudden?
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Y’all forgetting the all so different Roush front end for the 13/14 cars all of a sudden?
Nope, and I found that equally useless back then. It's not that I'm a big fan of the 2015 Roush frontend but at least it's distinctive and different from the OEM part. And that's the whole point.
 

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that's what I was saying. I wonder if ford didn't let them completely change it like they have in the past with 15-17s and before. Ford probably didn't want them doing something better.

Roush definitely is holding back. This does not look like an entire different fascia like the one on my car. This looks like addon pieces. Ford had to have a say in this.
Not likely. The 15-17 bumper isn't good either.

The "let's design it out of black plastic" design approach is not solid.

Anyway, Roush has succeeded in making the Mustang look like a catfish.
 

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2018 Roush Mustang finally unveiled!!!

Found a video today that LMR posted on Instagram showing the 2018 Roush mustang. I took some screenshots of parts of the video that showed the car, and even though these are early development photos I'm sure this is what it will look like. What do you guys think?
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