rubbish. There is no great difference in price between the two.
While Cadillac's V8-6-4 was a total disaster, the cylinder deactivation that is with FCA's Hemi works pretty well. I never even notice it, back when driving my kid's car.
are you suggesting Ford needs to send Guido over to his house? To 'splain some things?
Pretty sure you can turn that on an off for viewing pleasure as seen in the MCU.
I'd like to see price reduction as well. On the face of it just saying price reduction it might seem foolish at first or like you or I am asking for too much. However, I think Mustang prices are way too high just based on how much they increased in the last 6 years. The base GT increased from $32,925 to $37,315 - 13% - in those 6 years. I doubt Ford's costs have increased by 13% in that time. If they have, Ford has made some mistakes and needs to improve. Although the cost of living has gone up 9%, which would mean a GT cost of $35,888 is similar compared to other products in cost as a $32,925 GT in 2015 dollars. However, the Mustang has not changed much in all that time, so tooling costs should have been paid for. Ford should be trying to pass those savings on to the customer. I'm ok with the Mustang being on an old chassis, but if Ford charges me as if they did a full redesign - it just makes me less interested in buying a new car.
Cylinder deactivation is just extra complexity and more things to go wrong. And cylinder deactivation does something that I don't want the engine to do. It's not good for the rings to be sliding up and down the cylinder bore with no load on them. It causes glazing of the rings, which means they don't seal as well. So the engine won't make as much power or last as long.
That would be nice.
That would really be nice. Nice enough that Chevy got as close as NHTSA-mandated equipment requirements would let them with the 5th gen Z28.
I never noticed the cylinder deactivation in my Corvette and I’d bet very few would notice either. 29 mpgs in a car like a Corvette is nothing to blow off, I was impressed by the system.
the Mustang V8 powerplant development costs nothing. The F150 shoulders that. They sell in 2 month as many F150 as an entire year's worth of Mustangs. The 2.3EB was also LONG since paid for. And anyway the relaunched Ranger will now likely finance any further 2.3EB development should that be needed.
I said production costs, not development costs. But to be fair, production costs for a DI + PI engine can't be that bad compared to a PI only engine. Probably $100 each for a high volume manufacturer.
I see on the website, one can order Adaptive Cruise Control, on a Mustang with a manual transmission. How, exactly, does that work? How does the ACC handle downshifting and upshifting, as your speed varies between 0mph and 100mph ?
Is some ways I agree with you.
