Chassis #2506

[D1JBS]

24 hours old and 400 thunderous miles under the wheels already.

Initial impressions:

Comfortable cruiser, covering 260 miles with two kids in the back.

22.5 Mpg at highway speeds.

You’ve got to thrash the cherries off it in 5th and use 6th like overdrive on a fast road with alternating gradients. There’s little grunt in 6th at normal road speeds.

I suppose a looooooong 1st and 5th gears are useful on the track. Either that or I need to get used to having all that power in the 4K-7k band after years of running Euro four-cylinder turbos.

It also a very rare beast here in the UK.

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[stageron]

24 hours old and 400 thunderous miles under the wheels already.

Initial impressions:

Comfortable cruiser, covering 260 miles with two kids in the back.

22.5 Mpg at highway speeds.

You’ve got to thrash the cherries off it in 5th and use 6th like overdrive on a fast road with alternating gradients. There’s little grunt in 6th at normal road speeds.

I suppose a looooooong 1st and 5th gears are useful on the track. Either that or I need to get used to having all that power in the 4K-7k band after years of running Euro four-cylinder turbos.

It also a very rare beast here in the UK.

My Chassis number is 2559 only 53 away from yours yet you're in the U.K. and mine is in New York. Interesting. Nice car by the way

 

[Atlas1]

Congrats! What’s the suv in the background?

 

[Jimmy Dean]

Looking at that house, do people call you Lord or something?

 

[chorse]

Cool "Chucks"!, so, you've got a Castle, two kids, an SUV and a sweet M1, now all you need is a color matching two seater, ha. thx for posting.

 

[TTown]

That's good looking. Arguably the best color.

 

[D1JBS]

Congrats! What’s the suv in the background?

My little Clubman JCW daily driver, which is better suited to narrow country roads!

 

[D1JBS]

That's good looking. Arguably the best color.

You know I agonised over that. I love FJG, but my entire rationale for the purchase was nostalgia-based. Oxford White/black goes right back to the original Mach 1 and is in keeping with the NAV8, RWD format that will become a thing of the past in the UK once the S550 goes out of production.

It’s puzzling how many enthusiasts rant on about the shaker hood thing, but then go and order their Mach 1 in a non-original colour! :-/

 

[D1JBS]

Cool "Chucks"!, so, you've got a Castle, two kids, an SUV and a sweet M1, now all you need is a color matching two seater, ha. thx for posting.

I’d eBay the kids for ‘21 GT

 

[D1JBS]

Looking at that house, do people call you Lord or something?

It would help if I was a Lord, considering what Ford UK are charging us over here for a Mach 1 which is offered without the Handling Pack option, no Torsten LSD, no centre dash gauges, 20hp less than the LHD version and apparently no strut-brace either!

 

[Cobra Jet]

It would help if I was a Lord, considering what Ford UK are charging us over here for a Mach 1 which is offered without the Handling Pack option, no Torsten LSD, no centre dash gauges, 20hp less than the LHD version and apparently no strut-brace either!

So exactly why is the UK M1 so drastically stripped of those features found in the US version?

 

[Charlemagne]

Same reasons as why GT always had less power since 2015 when it was started being sold in EU.
Homologation costs of some parts for approval of street usage in EU. CO2 emission issues - few top hp could add a lot of g/km, I guess. RHD has different exhaust manifold that lowers power a bit. There's Gasoline Particulate Filter that takes few hp too. Active hood prevented the strut (which is kinda weird considering German Mach 1s have both the strut and active hood from what I can tell).

When you check our configurator there's far less options, for GT it's just GT Premium PP1 with most of things already included, supposedly for WLTP tests they'd need to test every variant of the car that adds a lot of cost. So there's limited number of variants. Though I don't get this considering how many optional things one can order on BMW for example... But this is a reason why there's no Handling Package. As for Torsen differential, I read there might not be a license for it for Europe.

Many things go back to the same issues with GT. Mach 1 is very limited in numbers in export markets so costs of various new homologations/approvals/tests could add up.

Luckily for us, these things are mostly only cosmetic/tiny differences. The car is overly powerful for street in the first place so bit less power and torque is not an issue (this might depend on actual measurement with local premium petrol such as 100 octane too), design-wise it's just cosmetics (in exterior due to colour/size rules for parts mostly), exhaust is probably still louder than any Europe/Asia-made car while still somehow meeting the street legal limits. I'm pretty sure this is not something Ford would want to do if given a choice, it would be easier for them to make identical cars for US and Europe (it doesn't help that English people drive on the wrong side of the road). Little things that shouldn't diminish the thrill and enjoyment from this iconic car that Mustang is!

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