And at the end of the day the C8 still looks like a praying mantis had sex with a transformer. It just isn't a good looking car. The S650/S550 platforms are much better looking cars. Chevy got the C7 right in the looks department.
Oh it looks good in photos and from across the parking lot. Up close they aren't a good looking car. Besides if we all liked the same thing life would be boring and we would all be driving the same thing.
That's not really fair. I'm not a rabid Ford fan, but their motorsports experience is wide ranging and pretty impresive. It was probably convienient to farm it out.
Isn’t that what they have always done? I’ll take Farley and his halo car any day and enjoy the new car wars too.
Considering they have 90 recalls in the first 6 months of this year alone no I don't think Ford is doing what they've always done. They've lost the war already. Without Multimatic Ford has nothing. Multimatic should be getting all the credit not Ford or Farley.
This is terribly short sighted and ignorant. There was a time when people didn’t compare or cross-shop Mustang with M Series either but they do now and have been for several years. Competition is healthy and necessary but only with the best does that make sense.
Multimatic, has partnered with numerous brands including Aston Martin, Mercedes, Porche and so on so your rational is juvenile at best. At the end of the day, it all comes down to the rubber meeting the road so by your flawed logic Michelin should get all the praise. Ford and Farley deserves all the credit for it weren't for them we wouldn't even have the GTD.
They do that now because the Mustang has stupidly lined themselves up in price with the M series cars. The BMW being tuneable also helped with that transition. You really want to pay Porsche prices for a Mustang GT? Because that's what Ford will start charging if they truly go after Porsche.
Not so. The 2012 Boss started the craze, and it was pure performance, not pure price. Tunability is a niche market, so the numbers are moot. People that can afford Porsche prices are going to be indifferent provided that the performance and amenities are also there in a Mustang. It's not there yet, but I would be even more proud to own a Mustang nameplate that could complete on all levels, not less proud. If there is a price for entry, then sobeit. I'll take the trickle downs if I can't.
2012 was a long time ago and corporate greed has hit an all time high since COVID-19. Tuning numbers aren't moot. Watch the next quarter sales now they we can officially tune the S650. Your trickle down will be an Ecoboost which at that point the Mustang will be absolute trash and a thing of the past. If Ford wants a Porsche competitor then they should build one but the Mustang ain't it and it never should be. Overpricing and over engineering the Mustang will send it to an early grave. The Mustang is already struggling to sell at its price now.
The time is relevant. What isn't is your comment on corporate greed. You don't know that, but it makes you feel better to say it. Sales are not going to wildly jump up unless prices wildly go down (which will be helped by the recent incentives NOT tuning). You overlooked that part of your assessment.
