AlmostFamous
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The Corvette and Mustang will be the only performance vehicles of any type still being produced under $100k that offer a V8 engine. The Mustang will be the only production vehicle in the world that will offer a V8 engine and manual transmission. If you’ve been pretending this could never become reality, we are exceptionally close to the end of all V8 performance vehicles. With all ICE powered performance vehicles facing an end date soon after.
When it’s all said and done, will you continue to purchase performance vehicles every 2-5 years but former models you always wanted to own? Keep your favorite performance vehicle and drive it for the next 30 years? Conform with the times and get a performance oriented EV?
When it’s all said and done, will you continue to purchase performance vehicles every 2-5 years but former models you always wanted to own? Keep your favorite performance vehicle and drive it for the next 30 years? Conform with the times and get a performance oriented EV?
https://www.musclecarsandtrucks.com...e-details-on-the-last-v8-muscle-car-standing/We’re in the business of obsessively reporting on muscle cars (and trucks!), so we’ve made it our mission to infiltrate our intelligence deep into any automaker that dares build them. In doing so, we were first to alert the world *checks notes* that the original seventh-generation Camaro plans were a casualty of a GM restructuring, as were the sixth-generation Z/28 and its special engine. We were first to tell the world of *checks notes* an electric Dodge muscle car coming. And we’ve only been around for *checks notes* two years. Not like it’s hard. So today, we’re here to tell you everything we know about the upcoming S650 Ford Mustang.
Out of the gate, the 2023 Ford Mustang will have a familiar stable of powertrains, before a refresh in a few years that will add hybrid electrification. This means that a 2.3L EcoBoost turbo four and 5.0L Coyote V8 at the start, with the 755 hp 5.2L supercharged Predator V8 to follow. We don’t expect the 5.2L flat-plane crank Voodoo V8 to re-emerge after the discontinuation of the Mustang Shelby GT350 and GT350R.
The S650 Mustang will be the last ICE muscle car standing. Our sources described the lifecycle of the S650 Mustang as one that will be the finish of a long bridge towards electrification. In other words, Ford Motor Company will “sweat the asset” and it will have a long lifecycle; eight years, in fact. Just like the S550, which entered the fray in 2014. Some analysts pin the electric Ford Mustang to emerge by 2028, but 2030 seems like the more likely outcome. The end of the decade feels far enough away, but the clock is ticking in what feels like a speed run mode. When that time approaches, the last of the internal combustion engine muscle cars will have rolled off the assembly line.
General Motors and its “All Electric Future” has the Camaro as we know it reportedly giving way to an electric performance sedan. Across town, the new French overlords pulling the strings at Dodge have the brand completely rethinking the Charger and Challenger formula, as electric vehicles. By 2024, it’s an extreme likelihood that the S650 Ford Mustang will be the last American muscle car with an internal combustion engine. This makes us recall the sage words of Ferdinand Porsche, which say that “the last car built on earth will surely be a sports car.” In this case, the last V8 muscle car will be a Ford Mustang.
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