400 pound weight loss??

[Pitch]

http://blog.americanmuscle.com/phot...edium=social&utm_campaign=fbpost12192013mach1

I know it's just another guess...but 400 pounds? Where do they get these numbers from??? Lol

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[Thed]

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[Pitch]

Must be. Lol

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[jjw]

Haha... from confirmation bias?

 

[Pitch]

Wut

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[GTsquid]

It's a rumor within a rumor that they got from the guy who wrote that Edmunds article about some other rumors. :eyebulge:

 

[Pitch]

Lol delete that comment and go make it into the xzibit meme then repost! Lol

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[Grimace427]

I thought Chris Rose left AM a few years ago? I had some conversations with him on another forum and he told me he was leaving and all our correspondence were changed to Dan Bailer.

 

[Brew_WY]

http://blog.americanmuscle.com/phot...edium=social&utm_campaign=fbpost12192013mach1

I know it's just another guess...but 400 pounds? Where do they get these numbers from??? Lol

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As far as how much the actual weight loss is who knows until Ford lets that little detail out. Where did it come from I had read that they used Aluminum in a lot of the car where I assume steel had been used in the S197 chassis. Which I can believe since they are applying the same technique to the 2015 F150.

Jalopnik Article

I have no idea the credibility of the above link. :doh:

 

[DMV]

Ford has already alluded to which parts are aluminum in the S550. Listen to the 12/5 presentations all over the web.

Hint: Not even close to the F150.

 

[Grimace427]

The only new parts that are aluminum are the front fenders as far as I know. The hood was already aluminum. The chassis will still primarily be made of steel.

 

[Brew_WY]

Ford has already alluded to which parts are aluminum in the S550. Listen to the 12/5 presentations all over the web.

Hint: Not even close to the F150.

No its real close to the F150. They are replacing the hood, fenders, box and frame with aluminum. Once again like I said before using the same TECHNIQUE. Replacing steel with aluminum. I never stated this is where all the weight savings was coming from, just part of it.

EDIT: I am obviously referencing what they are replacing on the F150 with aluminum. Not the new Mustang. Mustangs have never had a box.

 

[Grimace427]

No its real close to the F150. They are replacing the hood, fenders, box and frame with aluminum. Once again like I said before using the same TECHNIQUE. Replacing steel with aluminum. I never stated this is where all the weight savings was coming from, just part of it.

The level of weight savings in the F150 is far greater than what they are doing with the Mustang. I wouldn't call it comparable either. Weight savings through the use of more expensive materials is a bit easier in a vehicle that sells so many units like the F150 where you don't need to increase the cost per unit to the degree that you would for a relatively low-volume model like the Mustang. To do to the Mustang what Ford is doing with the F150 would substantially increase cost per unit.

 

[Brew_WY]

The level of weight savings in the F150 is far greater than what they are doing with the Mustang. I wouldn't call it comparable either. Weight savings through the use of more expensive materials is a bit easier in a vehicle that sells so many units like the F150 where you don't need to increase the cost per unit to the degree that you would for a relatively low-volume model like the Mustang. To do to the Mustang what Ford is doing with the F150 would substantially increase cost per unit.

I never said it was on the same level. Its the same technique. I don't understand how you feel there is an argument. The replacement of steel with aluminum allows for some of the proposed 400 lbs of weight savings and is the same technique they are using on the F150. I never said the Mustang was saving the same or any where close to the amount of weight as a F150. I stated they were using the same technique to account for some of it. I just don't understand the flame war that is taking place.

 

[Grimace427]

I never said it was on the same level. Its the same technique. I don't understand how you feel there is an argument. The replacement of steel with aluminum allows for some of the proposed 400 lbs of weight savings and is the same technique they are using on the F150. I never said the Mustang was saving the same or any where close to the amount of weight as a F150. I stated they were using the same technique to account for some of it. I just don't understand the flame war that is taking place.

What technique? The only new aluminum parts on the Mustang are the front fenders. How is that in any way comparable to what Ford is doing with the F150? Never mind the number of pounds lost or even the percentage of total weight lost, Ford went extensively to aluminum construction in the F150 and barely anything at all in the Mustang.

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