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A hungry malegator? Seriously, I use a steering lock when it's parked up and I'm away for a while. Mustangs are rare enough here, that you couldn't drive or sell a whole one. And a Coyote engine listed on Trade Me would be slightly stupid.

I'm guessing this rev bombing is youthful exuberance? One of my pet hates with modern bikers is rev bombing instead of using the horn. Sure, it's much safer to pull in the clutch, rev the nuts off the bike, and hoping you don't have to brake and swerve suddenly, than press a horn button. W ⚓ s

I consider it the cost of a hobby. I sold my bike, I don't play golf, and my wife won't let me have a girlfriend. So I spend it on gas.

Lower litres is better. My highest is 17.9 around town.

Well, when you pay per litre what most in the US pay per gallon, it is a consideration. One I thought about for roughly 5 seconds until the salesman started the beast up.

IIrc Autotop NL ran a EU spec S650 convertible to 255 kmh on unrestricted Autobahn and a Dark Horse hit the limiter at 260.

Good point. Touching up the make up would really screw up your reaction time. It was similar here. Not enough ice for ice racing, but the lean angles they pulled overseas were amazing. Our old fighter planes were front line fighters. Our only Airforce now are the same aircraft. We had speedway...

If you have to ask, you weren't there. It was when men were men, and sheep were scared.

I played with track a couple of times in the last week. It's an aggressive bugger, isn't it? The downshifts are awesome, but a little jerky at lower speeds. I really like the throttle feel too. I'm going to try it on the twisty's over the ranges going out of town.

It's interesting, and a culture thing, that the US is really focussed on the drags. We have strips here, but I've never been to one. Except back in 1968 when there was a dirt (!) drag strip a short way out of town. I've been more into circuits with cars and bikes. I have to keep reminding myself...

Thanks, I am aware of the effect of windage in the oil pan. But usually it takes quite severe overfilling to do damage. Ford sounds like 200 mls over and your engine goes boom

OK, CVT's are the work of Satan, or Greta Thunberg, but don't knock 1.5 turbos. Our Skoda has one, all 110kw and 250nm torque. That torque figure is higher than our GT86 at 2000rpm lower. It'll do 0- 100kmh in 8.3 and top out at 220kmh. OK for a small crossover shopping trolley. I won't say...

Yeah maybe, but have they fixed the problem with the unsupported wet cylinders where they meet the cyl head. I believe that was the cause of the gasket blowing. Were head gaskets an issue on the Ecoboost?

I've never seen such a stern warning on overfilling in any other manual. I wonder why it's so critical in the Coyote? Clearance between oil level and crank webs maybe?

After my experience with this Mustang, I could be interested in a new Focus, Escort, whatever for my wife. But all the stories of problems with the 3 cyl, DCT trans issues and the headgasket probs on the 2.3 does make you hold back a bit.

Sharks and Rays are in the same sub class of cartiligenous fish. Rays are also known as Orca biscuits. Hammerhead sharks like a Stingray snack from time to time too.

Great art work. But not to my taste. I also think the low roofline would be impractical for a street driving and/or access.

There is a basic difference in that we had to have an interest in cars whether we were petrolheads or not. Cars from the 50's and 60's required a lot of "fettling" to keep them running. Owners had to know how to clean plugs, set ign points, check for spark and fuel. I remember my Father doing an...

I don't know how it is in the States, but women are major decision makers for family cars here, nd they want SUV's. I can't tell you how good it is to drive a car that's low to the ground again.