Adaptive cruise control

[gojensen]

Way to go EU - we're not even part of you and you still mess up my Mustang (yes yes I know our market is not big enough to warrant Ford going to the trouble of making a legal model for us, after all the US one certainly isn't Road legal here :/)

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[croyde]

I still hold onto the hope that The US are going to treat us Brits when the real RHD car is finally announced

 

[slowhand99]

We don't get the remote start function either as it's illegal here in the UK. But I'm sure someone will hack the ECU eventually and figure out how to reactivate this function ;)

Great. That should put the insurance premiums through the roof! Remember what happened to Range Rover insurance in London.

 

[slowhand99]

Yep, I think so too.

All this rubbish about the DRL's and bonnet vents etc is just a smokescreen to disguise the real reason: they were trying to keep the price down for the rest of the world.

If you compare the cost of a GT in the States versus it's cost in the UK or Aus, and then do the same with other brand new cars, I reckon the Mustang comes out pretty well.

IF that's why we're able to buy a brand new rwd V8 Mustang for £35k here in the UK, then I'm ok with it. After all, what possible reason could they have for not giving us the extra dash gauges? Don't tell me that's due to legislation!

When comparing our price with the US don't forget to knock off a grand for car tax and 20% for VAT; then you get a comparison. As you say, we're doing OK. You could even factor in your income tax on your money to pay for the car. Buy one in New Hampshire and there's no income tax or sales tax.

 

[Ericc B]

They cut down on those things because of the patchwork of motor vehicle standards that is the EU. Some countries allow remote start, some don't, some have no problem with the running lights and some do, finally some have no problem with the sequential brake lights as turn signals and some do. Ford simply made a car that can get an ECC (European Certificate of Conformity) rather than probably 5 different headlight, tail light, trim configurations for the European market which will probably only sell 20-30k Mustangs a year. If a car is built within the EU however and meets all of the requirements of the parent country it will get an ECC no problem. I believe the acc uses a frequncy of ka band reserved in europe and it wasn't worth the expense to change it.

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[Leeky]

Great. That should put the insurance premiums through the roof! Remember what happened to Range Rover insurance in London.

Tuners hack Stock ECU's all the time. You can get a remote start system off eBay for peanuts, so I don't think insurance will go up for mustangs if someone figures out how to activate the remote start feature.

You wouldn't tell your insurance company if you enabled this feature anyway as it's illegal and could technically invalidate your policy.

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