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This is great to read. I mean the bit about having the system showing a higher temperature than other cars! It might be a calibration issue (for all Mustangs!). I first used the low fan / low (high) temperature trick in my UK A-CLass, and depending on circumstances have used it in different...

Thank you for the link - I promise I searched for relevant topics first! And it's good to know that I'm not alone. It may be possible to recalibrate the system but if I'm not alone, I'm good with adjusting the temperature higher.

I may be imagining it but I'm sure I've read in the handbook that under certain circumstances the a/c is engaged automagically by the caraway from using demist mode, even though the driver has shut it down. My '08 UK Mercedes A-Class did this too, and it was an oddity that I figured had a good...

Hello all! Writing this I'm aware that interior temperatures and how it feels can be a personal thing, as I understand (but happy to be corrected) modern systems aim to have the interior feel like the set temperature rather than be the set temperature. I didn't see a note of this in the...

Red and black looks beautiful!

lol I'm asked that at the same time, so tell my long suffering and good natured wife one of the following: "immigrants, we get the job done..." or "there could be someone behind me but I wasn't looking for them..." Thanks for the fix being to swerve across the road, I mean, provide some...

The rain thing in Northern Texas is exacerbated by perhaps weeks or months with no rain, then a sudden downpour seemingly from nowhere, which gets the road surfaces greasy. I experienced this in the UK but I was only ever out in rain after a period of no rain maybe once every few years. It's...

I mean I'm getting off topic, but yes. And that weird habit of using your hazard warning lights as you drive along, as if no-one else around you can see the rain, is... just... bizarre...

That's really good to know - thank you. For the three days a year* on average that we get in Northern Texas where it's potentially icy, 67%* of the time, I am called out or otherwise have to get to the office. Good to know I might make it in haha! *85% of all statistics are made up on the spot...

Yeah that looks fantastic! Arrest-me Red* is an awesome color! *Race Red

That's good to know! Day four or five after picking up the EcoBoost, I commuted through a mahoosive thunderstorm in the dark and I wasn't used to how the Mustang drove or felt in a lot of standing water (Texas' surface drainage doesn't even try to cope with very heavy rain). Big difference in...

Ahh, Race Red, not Racing Red. Thank you. I like how this color isn't so, um, pretentious if you will I mean, I get it, colors aren't plain descriptive any more. But why not? Rather than Vapor Blue Metallic, why not "Head Gasket Failure Blue Smoke" and maybe rather than "Shadow Black" it could...

That's a beautiful color! I think Ford calls it "Racing Red" but my wife nicknamed it "Arrest Me Red" lol!

Sort of. I am glad I didn't have the choice, because whilst I miss driving a manual, I also commute in the Mustang and there's a certain charm in putting the transmission into "D" and loping along. I'm under no illusions that the ten-speed is as engaging as the manual (it isn't) but it's a...

I can think of a few... some of these are tongue-in-cheek it's a better radar reflector than a modern car shape it's useful for toll road cameras it protects the front from touch parking against tow balls Cutting to the chase... yes sir, it does seem pointless to have a mahoosive big metal...

The're a little less powerful in the UK, ~448hp, which I had wondered if this was because of noise regulations but it appears to be because of emissions regulations. The opposite has been true with diesel engines (this might change in the coming months) where US regulations were tighter than...

In the UK? Yes they did. The earliest one I remember was a 170hp 2.0 model, naturally aspirated, then Ford moved to turbocharged engines. As I remember - and I'm a little vague on the precise details - there were a few different versions, and I believe some had the smooth Volvo five cylinder...

I hear you. I was close to buying a EcoBoost back in 2021 but decided to go for a more sensible alternative and picked up one of the last Fusions made as an ex-customer use car. It was the right car for me at the time. I would have enjoyed the S550, and four years later with four more years of...

I mean, that's beautiful. I like both the S550 and S650!

Yes, it's unlikely but it could happen. I'm just that little bit cautious about it. 😝