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I purchased two cars off the lot though they weren't exactly what I wanted. This time I wanted a Dark Horse and unfortunately it may be a very long time before I could get one off the lot. I am not so concerned about the money with this car which probably puts me in a different place than many...

Seeing everything is software instead of hardware, how about two circular gauges overlapping each other. The outer ring could be speed and the inter ring the tach. Inside that you might have the digital speed. The whole thing could be centered to line up with the center of the steering wheel.

Page 406 in the manual. It appears it's a rev limiter while the clutch is pressed. Once you release the clutch, it's disable and you regain full control of the gas. As you don't have a clutch with an automatic, you don't have any need for it.

Dark horse manual here. 14 MPG on the first tank and I have been running 17 on the last two. My trips are mostly 3 mile but occasionally 5 miles of city driving and a lot of cold starts. Normally I shift at 2000 RPMs and easy on the gas peddle. The best training devices is configuring the...

I am taking you at your word that you are new to a manual. The good news is once you are familiar with it, this is a pretty easy transmission to learn on. I have had over 50 years of driving manual so I am a bit familiar with them. The transmission will take about 500 miles of city driving...

It might have been passing more oil than we thought and it was clogging the cat. Now it's running clean it burned out the excessive gunk and the exhaust noise flows free.

They need to use different paints depending on if they are painting metal or plastic. Because it's not the same paint, they may not be able to exactly match the colors as the pigments that make up the paint aren't the same. Color matching is done by computer. If you want to see it in action...

Not so easy, I have the car cellphone off because they will want to charge me for another data plan. For the most part I am the only one in the car so a hot spot is useless. I have a cell phone which is with me 24/7 as people depend on me being available any time of the day or night. In this...

The engine runs well at lower RPMs but it wakes up somewhere around 2500 to 3000 RPMs. Both the Auto and 6 speed are spaced close enough that you can shift at 4000 to 5000 RPMs and get a good feel of acceleration. If you're pushing it, go for 6000 to 7000 RPMs but this engine likes to run and at...

Titanium is one of the more expensive of the common metals but it's not nearly that expensive. The problem with it is the machining. It's hard and they had a lot of trouble with it when they made the SR 71. Ford is making a hefty profit on this probably to keep it exclusive to the Dark Horse. In...

When the power initially comes on you get the GPS screen which I like. Then the Car Play comes up and you have to press the Home button to get back to the GPS. Perhaps the computer should remember what was the last screen up and return to that point. Older cars had a button that would allow...

South mountain, south of Phoenix AZ has a real nail biter. Get to carried away and you find there is no longer road under your tires. Dobbins lookout is the primary attraction but there are other view points.

Hwy 1, the perfect place to drive a mustang. Its been a long time since I was on much of it and that was with a car that wasn't as fun to drive it. Most of my trips north were on the 5 in a motor home. Pretty boring but the destination was more important than than the trip. You should be able...

They took a regular engine and slapped a turbo on it. The internals were fine until they attempted to get twice the horse power out of it which was more than it was designed to handle. Diesels are turbo charged but from the start the internals are designed with the turbo in mind and they can...

Yes, I heard one of them at Sam's Club but I also heard one of them on youtube that they were pushing pretty hard. It sounded far different and much more like a race car.

My first car was a Falcon at all of 100 horse power. I knew what my insurance cost so I knew bad driving would have me back on the bus. Still 100 horse power could get you into trouble, it just takes a little longer to get there.

There are several Ecoboost on the site and there are advantages. The smaller engine means a better weight balance and less weight means the horse power goes a bit farther. For a daily driver the fuel economy really pays off at todays prices. One deal killers for me is the lack of a manual...

I spent many years commuting in my 96 mustang and it was always fun when I got behind the wheel. Even when I was stuck in traffic which was pretty common in Los Angles I would rather be behind the wheel of that car than something else. Maintenance is fairly limited for the first 100,000 miles as...

Probably like the old style gauges. When the needle pointed to empty, you still had a couple of gallons in the tank. It was always fun figuring out how much was left because after several cycle you would creep up on empty then do a full fill. Knowing the size of the tank, you would know how much...

Better charge your phone, That said, Looks like a connector came unplugged or a really nasty computer failure. Three separate systems failing at the same time indicates it's probably not a real failure.