So who has ordered the new S550 Mustang?
Discussion
JumboBeef said:
What do folk think about the new VED rates announced today, and how it will affect the second hand prices of these first UK Mustangs in a few years time?
I am considering an order after seeing one in the metal at the end of the year for delivery in 2016.Perhaps it is worth waiting for 2017?
JumboBeef said:
What do folk think about the new VED rates announced today, and how it will affect the second hand prices of these first UK Mustangs in a few years time?
Who knows? The first few cars will be £505 a year as it stands, later ones £140 if Ford don't take list price over £40k. Don't forget that the first year tax which is included in the new cars list price will, from what I can see, go up from £1100 to £2000 when the tax changes come in. Ford will be bound to increase list price by the same amount to cover it, so as things stand you'll likely be paying another £900 for the car from the start. Plus Ford have already hinted at another possible price increase for the car before the end of the year. Overall just can't see it making much if any difference.
Fidd said:
Avdb said:
I am considering an order after seeing one in the metal at the end of the year for delivery in 2016.
Perhaps it is worth waiting for 2017?
Why? Any price increases, which are highly likely, will cost way more than a little extra on road tax. Perhaps it is worth waiting for 2017?
JumboBeef said:
Fidd said:
Avdb said:
I am considering an order after seeing one in the metal at the end of the year for delivery in 2016.
Perhaps it is worth waiting for 2017?
Why? Any price increases, which are highly likely, will cost way more than a little extra on road tax. Perhaps it is worth waiting for 2017?
When selling our cars, they'll be two years older & thus cheaper for a buyer than those cars that have the cheaper tax, so what you would save on tax you'd have to shell out to buy a car that has the cheaper rate. That's on top of the fact that in two year's time, Ford will have hiked the price anyway, never mind to include the new rate of tax, so I think the gap between the price of our cars secondhand vs these cheaper tax versions will be big enough that it won't drive our prices down by any significant amount.
Not that I care 'cos mine isn't going anywhere anytime soon.
Lol ..funny how this thread has moved on ...
I'm still just hoping to have my car in Nov 2015 ..! and meeting up with some of the (prospective) owners that I recognise by name on here by now.
Be interesting to look back at the 'pain' and uncertainty we were put through due to lack of information when the car was officially launched. The fact that we became the 'experts' before (most of) the appointed Ford Stores thx to Pistonheads and Mustang 6G.
Now I'm just plain excited .
have fun
Matt
..funny how this thread has moved on ...I'm still just hoping to have my car in Nov 2015 ..! and meeting up with some of the (prospective) owners that I recognise by name on here by now.
Be interesting to look back at the 'pain' and uncertainty we were put through due to lack of information when the car was officially launched. The fact that we became the 'experts' before (most of) the appointed Ford Stores thx to Pistonheads and Mustang 6G.
Now I'm just plain excited .
have fun
Matt
So a spectacular piece of "no news at all" from me here but, while Supertile is racing ahead in the excitement stakes, I swung in by my dealer today as I was in the vicinity. Ordered 24/01/2015. Car is visible on their Ford system but hasn't been allocated a VIN or a build date yet. Dealership is expecting to get their demonstrator in October/November. Expectation was that a car ordered on the date I ordered was likely to be included in the first batch of cars. My order is for a fastback and it is suggested elsewhere - as you all probably already know - that there is some issue with the convertibles which may lead to delays in their build. No idea if there is any truth in that or not. Can't recall seeing any of the phots from Germany showing a convertible.
Dealer reckons it'll be a couple of weeks before activity really starts ramping up and the information starts to flow.
Also, doubtless everyone else noticed that the Euro spec phots seem to suggest the car has a K brace but no tower strut brace.
Not sure there is much point drawing any conclusions particularly when you look at what seems to be going on over in Oz - delivery dates there seem to be jumping around like a box of frogs.
As for the tax thing, I suppose if you're looking to sell in 2025 and a punter has a choice of a 8 year old car paying £140 a year or a 10 year old car paying £550 a year, it might impact the resale a little but prior to that, I doubt it'll make much if any difference.
I'd be a bit puzzled to find a punter who wanted my V8 but got put off by the additional tax - if you're gonna worry about that what must the prospective fuel bills be doing to you !
It strikes me that the V8 buyers are more interested in the more emotive considerations of owning a Mustang than they are the cost of car tax. I do agree however that we're likely to see significant price hikes once the cars get on the road and the less obsessed start rubbernecking the early adopters as they go screaming by at a hundred smiles per hour.
I also think its going to be a bit weird taxing pretty much the same vehicle at a different level just because it was built a year earlier and I do wonder whether that will actually be or remain the case for long.
So, despite my complete lack of news and a slightly weird approach to car tax, I'm still as anxious as ever to get behind the wheel.
Finally, can I just flag this up : http://www.mustang6g.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2... which you've probably all read but just in case - a valiant attempt to tentatively start organising a bit of a mass meet on the roads of Scotland sometime next year. Getting a 2015 Mustang ? Get involved.
Dealer reckons it'll be a couple of weeks before activity really starts ramping up and the information starts to flow.
Also, doubtless everyone else noticed that the Euro spec phots seem to suggest the car has a K brace but no tower strut brace.
Not sure there is much point drawing any conclusions particularly when you look at what seems to be going on over in Oz - delivery dates there seem to be jumping around like a box of frogs.
As for the tax thing, I suppose if you're looking to sell in 2025 and a punter has a choice of a 8 year old car paying £140 a year or a 10 year old car paying £550 a year, it might impact the resale a little but prior to that, I doubt it'll make much if any difference.
I'd be a bit puzzled to find a punter who wanted my V8 but got put off by the additional tax - if you're gonna worry about that what must the prospective fuel bills be doing to you !
It strikes me that the V8 buyers are more interested in the more emotive considerations of owning a Mustang than they are the cost of car tax. I do agree however that we're likely to see significant price hikes once the cars get on the road and the less obsessed start rubbernecking the early adopters as they go screaming by at a hundred smiles per hour.
I also think its going to be a bit weird taxing pretty much the same vehicle at a different level just because it was built a year earlier and I do wonder whether that will actually be or remain the case for long.
So, despite my complete lack of news and a slightly weird approach to car tax, I'm still as anxious as ever to get behind the wheel.
Finally, can I just flag this up : http://www.mustang6g.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2... which you've probably all read but just in case - a valiant attempt to tentatively start organising a bit of a mass meet on the roads of Scotland sometime next year. Getting a 2015 Mustang ? Get involved.
CJ01 said:
Also, doubtless everyone else noticed that the Euro spec phots seem to suggest the car has a K brace but no tower strut brace.
The review in EVO had an under-bonnet photo and there was definitely a strut brace. I'm assuming it was an EU spec car (it was on German plates), so it's the usual contradictory information filtering through with nothing actually confirmed by Ford 
sumpoil said:
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Was thinking the same. It's just 164 days until Christmas, by which time many will have cars sat happily on our driveways, and all this will seem a distant memory. .....In fact, it's Q3 now, with many of us expecting delivery next quarter, and I'm not sure that I know much more than i did back in January.
So what i could really do with now is a build date.
And an estimated delivery date.
And a VIN.
And an up-to-date detailed brochure / technical spec.
And sight of a RHD car.
And all the other stuff we don't know answered.
But then, is not knowing all adding to the excitement and anticipation, and the frequency of forum visits? I guess it is...
R 
Had this come through in my email today. They have a Mustang in Ipswich at john Grose tel: 01473 276806 on Friday. May I also recommend the superb salesman there by the name of Richard Carter, friendly, helpful and knowledgeable. And no, I don't work for Ford haha, just giving credit where it's due
Had this come through in my email today. They have a Mustang in Ipswich at john Grose tel: 01473 276806 on Friday. May I also recommend the superb salesman there by the name of Richard Carter, friendly, helpful and knowledgeable. And no, I don't work for Ford haha, just giving credit where it's due
y awful car configurator! 
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