Terrific weight savings… for a motorcycle maybe. 30 lbs in a 4k pound car will not even be noticeable. And the $1,000 price tag is ridiculous.
To each their own for sure, but I personally could not justify that cost.
Share data with whom? The computer that calculates this is part of the car, no sharing needed. As far as Ford Pass goes, it is simply an interface via WiFi or BT that shares data locally and I’m sure with Ford. Any car with a 4G connection is sharing something.
Quality is definitely NOT Job 1. Ford has been going down hill for years, and yes I am well aware only the problems get attention, but the problems have risen past an acceptable rate for years. My company has leased through Ford for the past 13 years, from F250 Powerstorkes to Transit...
I think the AE is a great feature and sounds terrific. My only problem with the AE is the extremely weak single wall tips. They look terribly cheap, especially compared to any other American sports car which all have double wall/rolled tips.
So I chose to do without and ordered the Roush...
No worries. Sometimes I question using the comparison of the German/Italian sports cars as they are so much more expensive. I actually drove a Miata as a rental in Seattle last year and thought the car was a blast.
When cars reach 4,000 pounds, A LOT of compromises have to be made to keep the car as level as possible during hard turns.
There is a reason the best handling cars of the past 10 years or so are very light… Miata, BRZ, Corvette, Cayman, 911 etc.
For its weight, the DH does handle extremely well. Tires play a big role and I am sure if we could get hold of an actual Mustang engineer we would learn what the actual upgraded tuning consists of. Until then, it just the marketing machine of Ford cranking out vague, sweeping descriptions of...