So who has ordered the new S550 Mustang?
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downthepub said:
The £1600 kit is additional over the full Roush system. I'd be interested in a switchable exhaust, but not at a cost that's north of £3K. Plus that kit allows you to tailor the exhaust note exactly to your preferences. Don't think I want anything as fancy as that.
£3k is a decent holiday so selling that to the gf would be impossible so I'll just have to wait and see.I ordered mine mid-April 2015. Was told if I wanted a new build it'd be August 2017 or thereabouts, but the spec I asked for just happened to have one already in the queue to be delivered in May 2017.
Fast forward to November, and the dealer tells me my car's here already. It's still MY17 with Sync 3, so no complaints from me...!
Picked this up and drove it to work. Admittedly winter in Scotland isn't conducive to a clean photogenic car, and since this is the first car I've ever had that didn't end at the bottom of the rear window, please forgive the gap between the car and the wall...
Fast forward to November, and the dealer tells me my car's here already. It's still MY17 with Sync 3, so no complaints from me...!
Picked this up and drove it to work. Admittedly winter in Scotland isn't conducive to a clean photogenic car, and since this is the first car I've ever had that didn't end at the bottom of the rear window, please forgive the gap between the car and the wall...
My Magnetic Grey Mustang has arrived. The time line was: ordered mid September, scheduled build in Flat Rock mid November, on the boat just before Christmas, arrived in Zeebrugge 3rd January, at my Edinburgh dealer now. I'm going in tomorrow to sort out the bumpf and am thinking 1st March to drive it away. Mine is an Ecoboost which is not so lumpy on the VED and it's pretty marginal over 5 years and after that is too far away to worry. I am totally happy with the Ecoboost as I want it as my main car for many years, want to take it to historic track locations (Monaco, Reims, Spa, Rouen, Clermont Ferrand, Le Mans) +_Festival of Speed and Goodwood Revival. It just makes more sense for me and I've had a noisy car before, Pontiac Transam back in 82 when I was 28, single, abroad and it was a bargain and more recently a 911 with a dodgy sports exhaust (now that was a racket) so the V8 experience has been done, although I can totally see the attraction of the 5.0. There's a great Youtube of a guy testing the Ecoboost for fuel economy (and the 5.0) and I have absolutely no hang-ups with the Ecoboost. I'll be hyper-miling it locally and letting it rip on road-trips. Seems fine by me.
djc206 said:
My dealer is nowhere near as proactive as yours, not heard a peep. Assuming mine will be similar I'll wait until March then.
Is your dealer Hendy's?I spoke to them this week to give them some instructions, no numberplate surrounds and leave the wrapping on for the detailers. I have not heard anything from them in 8 months, everything I know I have found out from Ford.
TackMEU said:
djc206 said:
My dealer is nowhere near as proactive as yours, not heard a peep. Assuming mine will be similar I'll wait until March then.
Is your dealer Hendy's?I spoke to them this week to give them some instructions, no numberplate surrounds and leave the wrapping on for the detailers. I have not heard anything from them in 8 months, everything I know I have found out from Ford.
They wont, generally, unless you've chanced upon a good one.
As for not attaching the plate mounts; I'd phone them up again, and then again and maybe once more after that to make sure they don't put them on. If your car has already been delivered it may pay to go down there and take the mounts home with you to ensure they don't get put on.
I've heard of more than one person that told their dealer not to put them on and then when they turned up...
As for not attaching the plate mounts; I'd phone them up again, and then again and maybe once more after that to make sure they don't put them on. If your car has already been delivered it may pay to go down there and take the mounts home with you to ensure they don't get put on.
I've heard of more than one person that told their dealer not to put them on and then when they turned up...
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