C&D Cover Purports Leaked 2015 Mustang Images

[SaviorFaithful]

I think you are missing the point. Weight loss can be had on any vehicle, thats not a question. The amount of weight loss varies. The F150 is roughly 1000 pounds heavier than a mustang. When steel is traded for aluminum, weight loss happens by a percentage. Long story short, the F150 is going to lose more weight over all than a mustang through the use of aluminum. This is brutally simple.

With weight loss, comes more expensive materials such as boron, aluminum, etc. This higher cost will, without a doubt, get passed down to MSRP, plain and simple. Everything is a balance. Weight is not the only important aspect. If it was, the mustang would turn into a bare bones muscle car with no options, loud interior, and dull. Frankly, this is far from desirable.

I understand, and that's why the Mustang has a larger base price now. (About $1,300 more) My point is that it's not that unbelievable for the Mustang to lose weight. Its very simple.


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[ArtRios87]

Obviously this is nothing but a rendering, and its way off when compare to the spy photos that reveal the front but it also has some design elements that are coming in the new 2015 Mustang. Don't ask me how I know this, I just have a good eye.

 

[jjw]

360 view with the online article

From the December 2013 Issue of Car and Driver

Source: http://www.caranddriver.com/features...=1458_28229451

In a nation obsessed with the right now, few things have held up over the past 50 years as well as the Ford *Mustang. The first pony car debuted at the 1964 New York World’s Fair and instantly became a tent pole of Americana. Before the model officially turns 50 on April 17, 2014, Ford will celebrate its lasting *contribution to the postwar-boom culture with a brand-new, much anticipated Mustang.

But the times, they are a changin’ (yep, a song also released in 1964). Ford’s American icon continues to gain offshore admirers. The Blue Oval plans to sell the next Mustang globally, and to appease overseas buyers, the car will need to be lighter and more efficient. But that’s not to say that traditional fans will be disappointed.

Bodywork

While the new Mustang will keep the somewhat hefty proportions of its predecessor, exterior dimensions will shrink ever so slightly. It will also cease to have stand-alone styling within Ford’s lineup. A number of design cues will evoke the familial design language pioneered by the Fusion, and the Mustang’s new front end clearly has been influenced by the brand’s Evos concept from the 2011 Frankfurt show.

The car’s headlight motif joins the rest of the Ford family, but the upright grille remains Mustang-esque. It makes subtle use of the brand’s current Aston Martin-via-Dearborn mouth while still maintaining an appearance that’s unflinchingly pony car. The design proc*ess has taken longer than the folks at Ford would’ve hoped, we’re told, after the initial proposal was rejected for not being Mustang enough. We imagine that it was a little too Euro-soft, a little too much like the Evos.

In the final shape, a pair of large vents resides on the front of the hood, creating the appearance of flared mustang nostrils that hint at the power lurking beneath. The rear window features a sort of widow’s peak extending from the roof, à la the SRT Viper, and the side windows feature a more *cohesive shape—as opposed to the quarter-windows separated by fat B-pillars on the current car—with an upward kink that resembles the new Corvette’s treatment.

Interior

Retro is not completely dead in the new cockpit, either. Two large, tubular gauges will continue to sit in front of the driver as they do today, and circular air vents will reside atop the center stack, flanked by a rectangular duct at each end. The upper portion of the dashboard will be canted forward and have dual cowls, another cue from the Mustang museum.

The center stack will offer either traditional stereo and HVAC controls or the MyFord Touch do-everything touch screen, available for the first time in a Mustang. After taking a drubbing in customer-satisfaction surveys, Ford is emphasizing the evolution of the MyFord Touch interface. The next-gen system debuts in the Mustang, offering redundant buttons and switchgear for those who prefer to handle real controls instead of virtual ones. The changeable ambient lighting continues, but it will spread beyond the dials, cup holders, and speakers to other points within the cabin, something also found in European luxury cars like the new S-class.

Carry-Over Powertrains

At launch, the Mustang will be available with the same engine options offered by the current Mustang: a naturally aspirated 3.7-liter V-6 and the “Coyote” 5.0-liter V-8, each with the same power ratings as the Mustangs on showroom floors today (305 and 420 horsepower, respectively). Transmissions, too, will carry over at the outset, with shoppers given a choice of a six-speed manual or a six-speed automatic. That will change in the two to three years after launch, when the 10-speed auto being jointly developed with GM will replace the six-speed slushbox.

However, the Mustang’s 2015 model year will be a long one—as was 1965—and thus, Ford will offer powertrain upgrades in the months after its launch. Updates to the V-6 will be minimal, but we understand that the GT-badged “five-oh” will jump to 500 horsepower.

Turbo-Four Cafe Special

Sometime after the new Mustang reaches dealer lots, we will begin to see interesting underhood options. With European and federal fuel-economy standards in mind, Ford will introduce the first turbo*charged four-cylinder Mustang since the 1986 SVO model. And the engine will be the same size, 2.3 liters, as that car’s four-banger. It’ll generate 310 horsepower with direct injection, and it will be marketed as an uplevel alternative to the base six. Its premium should be justified not only by its expected mileage gain but also by its high, flat torque curve.

Ford is also considering offering the 3.5-liter EcoBoost V-6 found in the Taurus SHO. Tuned to churn out 400 horsepower (up from the 365 it makes in the SHO), this engine could potentially replace the 3.7-liter V-6 and serve as a natural steppingstone between the turbo four and the Coyote. The EcoBoost V-6 is unlikely to appear in the Mustang’s engine bay before the 2017 model year.

A Stable Full of Wild Horses

Ford has many plans for ultra-high-performance Mustangs. The first will be a successor to the Shelby-branded GT500, and the company will continue to offer Ford’s “Trinity” supercharged 5.8-liter V-8 making 662 horses. Past the new-gen Shelby GT500, Ford has additional powertrain options for two more hi-po nameplates.

The first is a twin-turbocharged V-8, code-named “Voodoo,” which displaces between 5.0 and 5.5 liters and, most intriguingly, has a “flat-plane” or 180-degree crankshaft, as Ferrari has used in its V-8s since 1973. This configuration, also found in the late Lotus Esprit V-8, is akin to connecting two four-cylinder banks to a common crankshaft. Flat cranks theoretically improve power, throttle response, and the soundtrack at the expense of greater vibration. This EcoBoost V-8 will produce between 550 and 600 horses. It will power a Shelby GT350–branded model that eventually will take over from the GT500, as Ford is desperate to discontinue that car’s costly and thirsty Trinity.

The last high-performance Mustang will be a successor to the Boss 302. What will power it is still not finalized. If all goes according to plan, Ford would like to use a naturally aspirated version of the Voodoo engine. However, initial testing has not yielded the desired results in Dearborn, and it’s possible that a hotted-up version of the 5.0 Coyote could be used—as was the case in the previous Boss.

Chassis

The introduction of an independent rear suspension, not seen in Mustangdom outside of the 1999–2004 SVT Cobra, will improve handling, ride comfort, and packaging. This should address some key Mustang criticisms and lend it credibility when taking on its European contemporaries in markets where the pony-car genre isn’t sustained by nostalgia and cheap fuel, as it is here. A new platform—code-named “S550”—will underpin this new Mustang, and through that architecture, Ford is expecting to shed some 200 pounds from the current car’s roughly 3500-pound curb weight.

 

[91z28350]

I hope it is pretty close to the real deal, as I quite like that.

 

[ArtRios87]

360 view with the online article

http://www.caranddriver.com/features/2015-ford-mustang-leaked-360-view-and-full-details-news

Thanks for sharing, they too don't have a clue how the rear of the car is going to look but it is a nice rendering none the less. Oh it must be a mustang since it has the 4X4 clearance as well haha

 

[jjw]

So the 5.0 will start at 420 but jump to 500? Gt350 will be voodoo ecoboost flat plane? 5.8 sticking around? Working on NA voodoo? Hmm... grain of salt please?

 

[WOT]

360 view with the online article

http://www.caranddriver.com/features/2015-ford-mustang-leaked-360-view-and-full-details-news

Nice find! This is basically what's in the article. Now the hardcore insiders are claiming this isn't it.
Not sure who to believe here.

 

[Jarstang]

360 view with the online article

http://www.caranddriver.com/features/2015-ford-mustang-leaked-360-view-and-full-details-news

Updated images in first post as well.

 

[mtb4life]

I actually like this render, now hopefully the production model will have slightly sharper lines in the rear. I am calling it a render based on C&D's 2010 "leaks."

 

[Tony Alonso]

chazcron,

For what it's worth, I like your renderings better! Maybe C&D was tired of getting upstaged

 

[ArtRios87]

Nice find! This is basically what's in the article. Now the hardcore insiders are claiming this isn't it.
Not sure who to believe here.

By the hardcore insiders who do you mean? I am interested to know, I know the car is not what the mustang will look but its pretty accurate in some areas, at least from what we have seen from the spy photos.

 

[DBCooper]

I like the body line that goes through the door handle and filler cap better on Chaz's renders . It's flatter

Also, the back end just doesn't look as sleek as Chaz's. It seems to come up a little bit more.

 

[WOT]

By the hardcore insiders who do you mean? I am interested to know, I know the car is not what the mustang will look but its pretty accurate in some areas, at least from what we have seen from the spy photos.

Sorry, I'm not going to throw anybody out there. You can simply read the thread and kinda figure it out.

 

[jjw]

The powertrain info is a hilarious shotgun guess. The basically claim every gas engine ford has or is rumored to have will end up in the s550. I'm not sure there is much legit 'leaked" info in this article. It's like they whipped up whatever they could and did their own render to capitalize on the Reuters article.

 

[StangFX]

If there was any doubt these are renders, see "ILLUSTRATION BY NICK KALOTERAKIS"

I looked him up... Aussie designer that goes by name kollected.

http://kollected.com

Like others have already said I have a hard time believing this is more accurate than chazcrons unless Ford changed the design from the spy shots we've seen. Also where's that double bubble roof we're supposedly getting?

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