Wiley Marmot
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Video just posted 3 hrs ago. Is this a hoax/AI generated BS? First I've heard/seen anything about it. 
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People look at the past with rose tinted glasses. A lot of people who grew up with those sorts of engines are nostalgic about them. But often don't realize a modern 5.0 is better in literally every way. Power, efficiency, tunability, reliability, etc.Someone educate me.....why would anyone want a 429 - IMO a big pig of an engine with crap HP - when you have a lightweight 5.0 making 500HP? Giant step waaay backward IMO.
Or you could just look at the picture for 2 seconds and see thats its AI slop. LolSo we get this a lot in the auto industry.
Often one of the best ways to know if something is fake is if it's something you can't find from anyone else, isn't confirmed by the brand, or by a legit insider.
Like we know stuff that comes from Ford is obviously legit. We know some of the stuff Ford is working on in secret because it can be confirmed by multiple sources. Think the mustang sedan or off-roader mustang. Multiple people can confirm seeing these models that things like dealer product previews.
But in cases where it's someone's uncles co-workers son who works at a supplier for Ford says X product is happening, that's almost always BS. Same goes for dealer employees.
A very small portion of dealer employees actually see and know about future product. But most don't, and have the same level of insight into future product as the rest of us. Yet we always see someone who says "My Chevy dealer told me a new such and such was coming out soon" usually some revival of a classic model that has no evidence of actually returning.
Thats not entirely accurate. We all know this car is fake ( its got an S550 body for gods sake), but if it were made, its not like Ford would be putting a 60 year old 429 in it.People look at the past with rose tinted glasses. A lot of people who grew up with those sorts of engines are nostalgic about them. But often don't realize a modern 5.0 is better in literally every way. Power, efficiency, tunability, reliability, etc.
One of the dumbest rumors we ever had in the mustang community was the possibility of getting a 6.8 or even 7.3 super duty motor in the mustang. It was fun in an overkill kinda way, but it was so dumb.
Throwing a heavier, less powerful motor into this awesome sports car that would have required millions of dollars of engineering work just to get close to the 5.0. It made no sense.
People look at the past with rose tinted glasses. A lot of people who grew up with those sorts of engines are nostalgic about them. But often don't realize a modern 5.0 is better in literally every way. Power, efficiency, tunability, reliability, etc.
One of the dumbest rumors we ever had in the mustang community was the possibility of getting a 6.8 or even 7.3 super duty motor in the mustang. It was fun in an overkill kinda way, but it was so dumb.
Throwing a heavier, less powerful motor into this awesome sports car that would have required millions of dollars of engineering work just to get close to the 5.0. It made no sense.