So who has ordered the new S550 Mustang?

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I'm Guildford Ford as well. Spoke to them yesterday and the salesman said that there was no information forth coming from HQ. He admitted that he had never seen one and couldn't answer any of my questions.

He suggested to go to Bill Shepherd's for a look but I've done that already.

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Nice one PH, I'm sure you know by now all the stuff we want to know. It would be nice to find a Ford exec, so they can explain the, what we think are, odd changes to the car that don't appear to be anything to do with EU regs.

Like the Recaros and the weird lower grill supposedly fitted to ACC cars, yet we are not getting ACC, supposedly.

Cheers.

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All the European and Brit reviews written over the last few days have been very short and haven't gone into any details.

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sumpoil said:

Well it seems like we have a new price list - effective from 11th May - which is exactly the same as the old price list .... except it has 'effective from 11th May 2015' written at the top.

Given that today is when order books open for MY16 in the States, I really thought Ford UK would be ready to go with updated specs and an updated website car configurator as soon as the MY16 details were released in the US. Silly me. But to be fair, they haven't had much time to get this organised and it's not as if anyone has pre-ordered or parted with a large sum of money or anything, so you can understand the slight delay

Also it has the pre VED rise price. Very slick Ford....not!

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This sentence on the UK Ford site, which has been there since January or maybe longer, makes me laugh.....then cry.

"Click here to find your nearest FordStore Dealer where our experts will be on hand to answer any Mustang questions you have."

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Pics of a RHD GT headed, possibly, for the UK.

http://www.mustang6g.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2...

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I think the pic that has a bit of washed out Orange was due to the camera being exposed for the dark interior

I'm sad to say that as I have been salivating for any morsel of info about the new Mustang, I was able to blow those pics up on my phone

The sticker says 2016 and I also notice that the giant mirrors are manual folding. That's gonna be a pain as they will have to be folded every time you leave the car as they are so fekin' big.

I bet the replacement bill is huge too.

The lower grill is the one fitted to the ACC equipped cars but no mention of it or a block heater on the sticker. Tried to blow up the steering wheel in the pic but it gets too distorted to see what is written on the switches there.

God! I'm getting obsessive

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I can live with early Spring 2016 because, as has been said before, who wants a brand new 420bhp car on summer tyres in the midst of winter.

I'm kinda hoping that my dealer is wrong about me being in the first batch. I mean how could I be, considering I didn't put down a deposit until the end of Jan.

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That was little 'ol me

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The heated seats are an option but unfortunately the Recaros are not an option in RHD markets. I have spent 15 minutes sitting in a GT and found the standard seats very comfortable. I'm 5'11" and 13 stone.

Hope that helps.

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Same here. The Recaros look cooler but many have said that the standard seats are just as good and I've read a couple of bits where owners have complained that the Recaros are already showing wear.

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Has a new car ever had such a farce of a launch.

Car salesmen puzzle me for if I was one I'd make sure I was more knowledgeable than the customer.

The last two new cars I bought I knew more about the car than the salesmen.

That was Porsche and Landrover.

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steiom said:

There's a new version of the price list out (27th May).... Looks like they put the price up by a grand!

http://www.ford.co.uk/SBE/Brochures/BrochuresandPr...

I wonder how that works with us lot who placed deposits a while ago.

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Relax lads. Just got a message from the sales manager telling me not to worry as the original price is what I pay. The amount locked in at the time of the deposit.

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Gawd! I have no idea.

I spoke to the Sales Manager about a month ago who was supposedly inputting my order on some system as we spoke.

He was the one that called me yesterday to say not to worry.

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Available on demand if you have missed it.

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unpc said:

All this talk about the interior makes me die a little inside every time I read it. FFS if that's your priority this is the wrong car for you.

I've spent my entire career designing car interiors for a living and now do them for a very exclusive supercar manufacturer but I couldn't care less. This thing is worth £35k for the powertrain alone.

Agreed

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Are you the only one there

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They do look good don't they

I saw my first about 2 months ago outside Bill Shepherds in Surrey. I parked my car and walked back, I was shaking with excitement. It looked bloody gorgeous and it was in Competition Orange, the colour I have ordered.

Pictures don't do them justice and the interior is absolutely fine.

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Just received an official invite to see the unveiling of a US Mustang at their newly built Mustang Sales area at Think Ford, Guildford.

It says tomorrow night so I called as instructed, to say that I was coming and the sales guy says see you Monday. 'Hang on! it says Friday 5th June from 5pm', I says.

'Does it?' he says 'I haven't actually seen the email, but it's definitely Monday, when do you want to come down?'

'Err, it says from 5pm on the invite'

'That's ok, just come down when it's easy for you' he says.


More mis-information. You couldn't make it up.