RE: Ford announces Mustang pricing

RE: Ford announces Mustang pricing

Wednesday 21st January 2015

Ford announces Mustang pricing

With EcoBoost under £28K and V8 under £32K you could almost say it's a bit of a bargain



So here's some good news to brighten up the greyness of January, certainly for anyone in the market for a muscular coupe. Ford has released British pricing for the new Mustang, launched a configurator and opened the order books. And it's considerably cheaper than many people expected.

Okay, so obviously enough, the Mustang is still considerably pricier than a direct translation of its US dollar 'tag into quids; but we're still looking at a 300hp rear-drive coupe for £28,995 in four-cylinder EcoBoost form, and one equipped with a V8 engine for £32,995 before options. The autobox carries a £1,500 supplement, and Convertibles are £4,000 more than Coupes, meaning the priciest V8 GT Convertible auto will set you back £38,495. (For a bit of perspective, the BMW 420i M Sport cabrio officially lists at £37,910.)

UK spec is also far more generous than in the US, with all British Mustangs getting 19-inch alloys, leather seats, the bigger brake package, xenon headlights, Sync 2 connectivity and a nine-speaker audio system. According to the online configurator, options beyond colour and trim choice are limited to 'premium' audio with navigation (£795), climate controlled seats (£495) and reverse parking sensors (£295). There's also a 'Custom' pack that includes all of this and adds blingy nickel-effect alloys for £1,795.

Photoshop artists haven't quite got Essex here
Photoshop artists haven't quite got Essex here
We've also got CO2 numbers for the first time - of obvious relevance to anyone planning to run one as a company motor. They're predictably high, but they're not catastrophically bad, for the EcoBoost at least - the manual four-cylinder Coupe has an official rating of 179gk/km (although the slushy autobox pushes that up to 228g/km). The V8 is, ahem, less good - with the manual Coupe version scoring 299g/km, and with the auto doing better at 281g/km.

The new Mustang is a far more advanced prospect than its crude predecessors, and will get here with its steering wheel on the right side. 'Bargain' is an over-used term in the motor industry, but in bang-per-buck terms both the EcoBoost and the GT look set to be unbeatable.

Read our original drive here.

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robemcdonald

Original Poster:

8,716 posts

195 months

Wednesday 21st January 2015
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Difficult to argue against it at those prices

mrclav

1,281 posts

222 months

Wednesday 21st January 2015
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crispyshark

1,261 posts

144 months

Wednesday 21st January 2015
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will wait to see what leasing deals are put up.....could be my next car....in V8 form!

idibbers

269 posts

127 months

Wednesday 21st January 2015
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crispyshark said:
will wait to see what leasing deals are put up.....could be my next car....in V8 form!
+1,

Any attractive lease deals and I'm sold.

stedale

1,124 posts

264 months

Wednesday 21st January 2015
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I hope these sell like hotcakes (esp. V8s) so I can get a nice one used sometime.

Chicane-UK

3,861 posts

184 months

Wednesday 21st January 2015
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stedale said:
I hope these sell like hotcakes (esp. V8s) so I can get a nice one used sometime.
I think you and half of Pistonheads probably smile

Gecko1978

9,603 posts

156 months

Wednesday 21st January 2015
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this does seem like a bargain but I am guessing when side by side tests are done BMW or Audi will be voted as the better package.....except weho gives a f'ck when it looks that cool!!!!

Also will there be tunning options offered by ford or at least a easy supply of stuff from the US I am thinking Supercharger and like 500+ BHP for less than 40k sound basically amazing

365daytonafan

283 posts

184 months

Wednesday 21st January 2015
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stedale said:
I hope these sell like hotcakes (esp. V8s) so I can get a nice one used sometime.
Suspect they will have no problem shifting the Ecoboosts at that price, but V8 will suffer from the high C02 rating (more than a Ferrari 458)!.


billy939

375 posts

143 months

Wednesday 21st January 2015
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The Ecoboost sounds like a great alternative to the usual 300bhp Hatches, looks so much cooler.
In blue with the SatNav/Soundsystem it comes in at £30k which will probably be similar to the Focus RS/New Type R and I know which I would rather have! smile

Fetchez la vache

5,568 posts

213 months

Wednesday 21st January 2015
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Great prices + great looking = winner.

Great least deals + great looking = big winner

OzzyR1

5,701 posts

231 months

Wednesday 21st January 2015
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Wonder if Top Gear will manage to get their hands on one in time to fit it in somewhere in the upcoming new series?

Ursicles

1,068 posts

241 months

Wednesday 21st January 2015
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Needed something to replace my 996 TT with that was newer, could be used as an 'only car' and not mainstream.

We have a winner (in 5.0 form).

Thinking blue + option pack and re-do the alloys in black .... with white stripes.

B17NNS

18,506 posts

246 months

Wednesday 21st January 2015
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I'm still struggling with concept of a 4 cylinder muscle car. That aside I think it looks fantastic and clearly offers great value for money. Well done Ford, I hope it sells by the bucket load.

V8 coupe for me. Any colour as long as it's lairy.

underphil

1,245 posts

209 months

Wednesday 21st January 2015
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B17NNS said:
I'm still struggling with concept of a 4 cylinder muscle car. That aside I think it looks fantastic and clearly offers great value for money. Well done Ford, I hope it sells by the bucket load.

V8 coupe for me. Any colour as long as it's lairy.
I don't think the Mustang ever was a 'Muscle Car' in the true sense of the expression

Claudia Skies

1,098 posts

115 months

Wednesday 21st January 2015
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Yes, I guess Mustang and Camaro were always "pony cars".

I think the muscle cars were typically 7 litre monsters (rat engines) in a full-size 2-door bodyshell rather then the small-block 5 litre mouse engines. Challenger and stuff like that. Meanwhile the British were wheezing about in wheezy 1300cc 4-pots!

Hitch78

6,101 posts

193 months

Wednesday 21st January 2015
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underphil said:
I don't think the Mustang ever was a 'Muscle Car' in the true sense of the expression
Er...

mattlad

261 posts

164 months

Wednesday 21st January 2015
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B17NNS said:
I'm still struggling with concept of a 4 cylinder muscle car.
'Fraid it's the way things are now. Smaller turbo'ed engines..... At the end of the day IF it it goes okay, is fuel efficient and reliable we can live with it but if not......

-crookedtail-

1,558 posts

189 months

Wednesday 21st January 2015
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This is awesome, just what we have always wanted for a decent price.

Lets see how many of us buy one, I wish I could, bloody stupid house deposit, but hey I can live in one of these right?

6cyl

122 posts

120 months

Wednesday 21st January 2015
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Seems like good value... in the UK at least. In Portugal an Ecoboost goes for around €45k (roughly £34k) which isn't that bad, considering the V8 is a whopping 86K (around £65k). Still good value, since a base Golf GTI costs almost as much around here as the 4-cyl Mustang ...

You brits have the rainy weather, we have the silly car prices cry

BorkFactor

7,258 posts

157 months

Wednesday 21st January 2015
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Fantastic news that we are finally getting it in the UK, I could seriously see myself getting one of these in a few years.

Excellent prospect, and a manual V8 option as well cool