Conga10
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- High Desert, California
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- 2018 GT PP2
Best post on the site! You nailed it! (There are a couple of gems in here too, buying sight unseen and the nursing home lines are precious.) I too think this package is great, so glad Ford decided to offer it in 2018. Great around town, you could certainly DD it, go rip a canyon on a Sunday morning, or go hit a track day at a local track. Very versitile, very affordable for what you get.I would say that article nails it. I never had seriously considered buying a Mustang except for possibly a used GT350. I've been driving BMWs and other euro cars for the past 20 years and was about to buy another, and then I saw the PP2 online. I loved the look, I loved the package. I did what any reasonable man with two kids a wife and mortgage would do. I found one at a dealer in Tennessee, bought it, and had it shipped to my house in California. Never saw one in person let alone drove one. The second I saw it coming off the delivery truck, i was blown away. It looks different. It looks special in a way that factory cars can look and you know it's factory, but a little more bad ass. Even though I had a n54 335 that was fbo running e85, I was genuinely nervous starting and driving it the first time. No BMW I owned ever made that sound when I pushed the Start button. Compared to the BMW, it sounds and feels absolutely raw, like my old 74' Camaro with headers and cherry bombs under the seat. Then I drove it through town. It felt slow, sluggish, pedestrian, but looked and sounded great, I was still happy, but didn't really know what it was going to feel like when I hit the nice, winding northern California roads I'm fortunate enough to have right behind my house. Once I was there and could open it up, I did. Felt pretty quick, not like 335, but quick. I expected more violent thrust, but the handling and braking were far beyond anything I'd owned and reminded me of Murcielago I'd paid to drive a few parking lot laps in. I also realised after about 20 minutes why it felt sluggish. I was used to driving a 470 hp twin turbo BMW, more torque than it had horsepower, and a auto 6 speed with stage 3 tranny software. I hadn't driven a stick since my 2001 GTI. But shifting was only a small part is the issue. It was rpms. I was shifting it waaay to early. It needed those last 2000 rpms, that's where the power lived. I was holding it back. There are still tight sections with little straights between sharp turns where i could dance the beemer through like a rally car. The burst of twin turbo torque instant speed regardless of rpm is addictive as anything. You definitely miss it when you want to haul but don't feel like making the town think a 7400 rpm Godzilla is rampaging through the countryside. But, that being said, and it's way more than I planned on saying, i don't care about the knocks, I'm already used to the tick of DI from the BMW, I'm getting over the ridiculously stupid fake stitching in the dash (I'll never really get over it thoughand the generally lower level of build/material quality in nearly every way, missing 2nd at high rpms, 3rd whenever it wants to change things up, and I'll put some damn metallic streamers or something to keep my axle cool or just simply add a cooler if I spend time at the track. I fucking love this car. Old dudes in pick up trucks stare at it like it's the hottest Grandma at the nursing home and they are the only one with Viagra. People who don't know shit about cars want to know about it. People in Starbucks drive through want to talk about it. People love. I love it.
I fucking love it.
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