Zissou
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Had a very close call with deciding to let my 2016 CS/GT manual go this week. Had gotten hyped on a Audi TT RS that ended up not meeting my expectation, but also had gotten a really good offer to buy my car. Side note, if you are interested in selling your mustang, check out Carvana - especially if you can have it be stock / just dealer installed options. My friend sold his tacoma to them. They offered $28.6k for my 2016 Cali Special with 10.7k miles. That's a really good offer so I had set up the schedule to have it hauled away... but bailed - here's why.
I had a heart to heart with a good friend that is notorious for changing cars. His recommendation was to write down a list of everything I wanted a car to do. I won't share the full thing here because it's quite long, but the key topics were
Pros and Cons of those to me personally were as follows:
So I figured I would share my experience with the forum on what I have been deliberating this week and ultimately why I'm sticking around. I had crept on forums of these other cars to read similar points of views. There's no one perfect car, but there certainly are ones that fit people's situations and preferences better than others. But for the forum lurkers thinking of getting a mustang or 6G guys who were thinking of selling theirs here's why I stuck around.
Side note like 20% of people on forums are super close minded. Type R dudes saying "omg you drove a mustang why are you still here". Camaro bros saying GM is life. BMW fans with their noses up each others roundels. There's a lot of excellent cars on the market, and this Mustang is the one for me right now.
I had a heart to heart with a good friend that is notorious for changing cars. His recommendation was to write down a list of everything I wanted a car to do. I won't share the full thing here because it's quite long, but the key topics were
- fun to drive above all else. Manual, pin you in the seat & good sound and good enough street handling (no track star required but needs to be able to handle curvy roads)
- techy features like bluetooth, android auto, heated seats, HIDs, etc
- good looking exterior and interior (very subjective but I know it when I see it)
- comfortable enough to be a daily and pass approval of my gf
- reliable enough to where I don't have to worry about if it will break down
- practical enough to daily; needs to seat at least 2 and be able to handle a couple suit cases
- not going to be a money pit or have horrible depreciation
- and obviously within budget +/- $10k of what the mustang's sale price was
Pros and Cons of those to me personally were as follows:
- Civic Type R:
- Pros over mustang: Reliable, holds value well, practical AF with 4 doors and a hatch, fuel efficient & cheap to operate, drives very well, it's a red badge Honda.
- Cons: I sold my Feista ST to escape FWD, lacks features like heated seats (and AC seats!), looks are polarizing (GF hates it), exhaust sound will always be lacking
- Camaro:
- Pros (over mustang): heated steering wheel, I prefer the manual in the camaro to the MT82 (as long as that solenoid is disabled), debatable if its a better sports car than the mustang due to the chassis but I think so - hides it weight well. Fits nearly every item on my list.
- Cons: Very hard to live with daily due to visibility and trunk opening. Interior, while better than the 5th gen, still isn't as nice as the mustangs (looking at you, downward tilting screen).
- Had Chevy made this just a bit more practical (like being able to see ANYTHING out of the windows) this would be truly dangerous to Ford's mustang sales.
- My Mustang
- Pros: I already have it, 'Goldilocks' of the muscle/sports car hybrids, so good looking (biased), has treated me very well. Fits every item on my list.
- Cons: Handling could use improvement (tires? something to do with the rear?)
So I figured I would share my experience with the forum on what I have been deliberating this week and ultimately why I'm sticking around. I had crept on forums of these other cars to read similar points of views. There's no one perfect car, but there certainly are ones that fit people's situations and preferences better than others. But for the forum lurkers thinking of getting a mustang or 6G guys who were thinking of selling theirs here's why I stuck around.
Side note like 20% of people on forums are super close minded. Type R dudes saying "omg you drove a mustang why are you still here". Camaro bros saying GM is life. BMW fans with their noses up each others roundels. There's a lot of excellent cars on the market, and this Mustang is the one for me right now.
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