BrettT
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Mustang GT/Bullitt made Car & Driver 10Best for 2019.
https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a25252134/10best-cars-2019/
Nice to see a little love for the Mustang/Bullitt.
https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a25252134/10best-cars-2019/
Nice to see a little love for the Mustang/Bullitt.
Our 10Best Cars list of late has been stable—oops, we meant "a stable." Chevrolet's pony car, the Camaro, booked a stall between 2016 and 2018, while Ford's Mustang paid by the hour, its V-8 GT landing a brief 10Best stint after its 2015 redesign before ceding to the exotic Mustang Shelby GT350 for 2016 and 2017.
For 2019, the Mustang GT again makes hay, trampling into the spot vacated by the Camaro, whose transcendent chassis failed to prop up its awful outward visibility, practicality, and looks in the face of withering 10Best competition. Why now? Though eligible for 10Best last year, the updated-for--'18 Mustang wasn't available in time for testing. The GT350 was, thanks to its 2017 win, but failed to retain the award; its lack of changes rendered it ineligible this year.
We never did stop liking the Mustang's remastered mid-century look and modern performance. The GT's newly available MagneRide electronically adaptive shocks from the GT350, more powerful V-8, and two Performance packages edging it closer to the Shelby's track-worthiness push it over the finish line. The base EcoBoost four-cylinder engine remains unworthy of the rest of the Mustang and our 10Best list.
There are no asterisks needed for the Bullitt edition, Ford's nostalgia-soaked half-gallop between the GT and the Shelby GT350 that shares in the former's award for 2019. Highland Green paint (black also is available) and Torq Thrust–style wheels pay homage to a certain '68 Mustang GT390, while cohesive chassis tuning and the Shelby's larger throttle body unlocking an extra 20 horsepower from the Coyote V-8 elevate the package beyond retro fetishism. At 7000 rpm, where all of the Bullitt's 480 ponies gallop at once, the noise belted through the active exhaust is riveting enough to excuse the driver's McQueen cosplaying.
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