RE: New Ford Mustang!
Discussion
I just hope the price isn't too far from the current Mustang, but with the weak pound and mag suspension etc., you have to figure this will be over £40K, maybe pushing £45K with options?NJ72 said:
Is it me or does it just look like an angular version of the Jaguar XKR?
Really is a great looking coupe in my opinion, both in garish (orange) and that grey above. The issue for me is (and I've had a passenger ride in the V8) is the interior. Call me a snob but after a few Audis and BMWs (all being c.10 years old) the Mustang interior was still light years behind the German competition of yesteryear. It really didn't feel very nice inside despite looking fabulous from the outside...
Plus I didn't think the V8 felt very quick...
MrHooky said:
Exactly what I thought. No bad thing necessarily, as both very good looking cars to my eyes. Motor industry is so incestuous you'll probably find the person who designed this may have had a hand in the XK...
Really is a great looking coupe in my opinion, both in garish (orange) and that grey above. The issue for me is (and I've had a passenger ride in the V8) is the interior. Call me a snob but after a few Audis and BMWs (all being c.10 years old) the Mustang interior was still light years behind the German competition of yesteryear. It really didn't feel very nice inside despite looking fabulous from the outside...
Plus I didn't think the V8 felt very quick...
Interiors are pretty low-rent, but, performance for £ is way better than any european car.Really is a great looking coupe in my opinion, both in garish (orange) and that grey above. The issue for me is (and I've had a passenger ride in the V8) is the interior. Call me a snob but after a few Audis and BMWs (all being c.10 years old) the Mustang interior was still light years behind the German competition of yesteryear. It really didn't feel very nice inside despite looking fabulous from the outside...
Plus I didn't think the V8 felt very quick...
Watched a video of the new Camaro ZL1 at the Nurburgring. Engine constantly between about 5,900 and 6,500 rpm with the 10 speed auto. Was massively impressive, effectively deploying maximum power all the time.
unpc said:
So what does it rev to now then? Unless I'm mistaken the article doesn't say.
I'd like to know this also but I don't think anyone knows yet. AFAIK the standard GT revs to 6.5k which is a bit too low for my tastes but the GT350 has a barn storming 8.2k limit! If they can make it rev anywhere near that for the standard car I'm sold.
kapiteinlangzaam said:
I regularly get to the limiter in mine, rowing through the gears. The Coyote makes peak power @6500rpm and it likes to rev.
Sounds just like my kind of engine, traditionally it seemed to be quite difficult to get V8's to rev hence them picking up a bit of a reputation for being "lazy" but the new generation of engines seem to give you the best of both worlds. The lazy low down torque AND the top end fireworks, especially the motor in the GT350, to me the specs on that engine just sound sublime.ash73 said:
J4CKO said:
I dont get the concern about these new autos with loads of ratios, it is an auto, it decides what gear to be in and surely, with more it can be in a more suitable gear, more of the time ? they can also skip ratios, wouldnt want to go back to old style 3 speed slushers, they could be a bit painful.
The more gears the more time it spends changing gear, off the power. Or is it a double clutch?By no means an expert but it wont be a V8 Mustang shifting through ten gears like a Peterbilt driver, the gearbox ECU just has a greater spread of rations for every given occasion.
When under full acceleration I am guessing it will not shift through each one in turn, no need but the benefits will be perhaps more that when it kicks down it has four ratios to choose from depending on throttle position rather than two so instead of the not much or all you get with some autos it goes all Goldilocks and gets it just right, also, when driving economically it can be in a more suitable ratio, most of the time you wont really know its changed gear, I very much doubt that it will feel like an electric train leaving the station, shifting every 4 feet.
I had the current gen. Mustang convertible as a rental for a west coast trip in 2014.
Came away mightily impressed. It was "only" the naturally aspirated 3.6L V6.
But it howled ran and handlled.
So much so, I really pondered getting one on lease at home in Germany, but the Ford Lease rates showed that to be nonsense.
Instead for the next company car lease I opted out of the Diesel Audi and got me a nice 535ix. Sure the interior is a tad finer. But neither the 3.0L 6 Turbo engine nor the 8-speed auto or the steering beat that Mustang.
If Ford did a Torino wagon based on the Mustang it would give BMW a run for their money. Sadly everybody is into SUVs these days. Not sporty wagons.
Looking forward to driving a 350GT with the clever dampers.
Martin
Came away mightily impressed. It was "only" the naturally aspirated 3.6L V6.
But it howled ran and handlled.
So much so, I really pondered getting one on lease at home in Germany, but the Ford Lease rates showed that to be nonsense.
Instead for the next company car lease I opted out of the Diesel Audi and got me a nice 535ix. Sure the interior is a tad finer. But neither the 3.0L 6 Turbo engine nor the 8-speed auto or the steering beat that Mustang.
If Ford did a Torino wagon based on the Mustang it would give BMW a run for their money. Sadly everybody is into SUVs these days. Not sporty wagons.
Looking forward to driving a 350GT with the clever dampers.
Martin
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