Narrow wheels and tiny brakes/tire, tin can bodies, no A/C or crash protection and not much sound insulation, crappy fuel mileage but gas was cheap, . . . ;)
My 69 351 Autolite 4 bbl carb used a plate above the secondary throttle plate called an air valve that was opened via vacuum pulling a...
Speaking of boat anchors are any of you old enough to have owned boat anchor engines in the 60's and early 70's? My first Mustang was a new 69 with the Windsor 351 4 barrel. It was considered light compared to the big block 390 and 428.
C&D had a bunch of Mustang road tests on their website a...
Be prepared for the EDD to be extended when your car goes to in transit. Mine was built on 12/21 and went to in transit on COTUS this afternoon. EDD to a central NC dealer went from 1/10 to 1/15. CONVOY for my previous Mustangs meant a combination of rail to Walkertown, NC and then truck to the...
Some other info.
http://www.autonews.com/article/20171003/OEM02/171009909/ford-hackett-strategic-plan-wall-street
Also note the reduction in variants.
Keep in mind that every version/option requires a bunch of testing by engineers and also complicates the supply chain for manufacturing and...
Not for the last year or so. Flat Rock currently makes Mustangs and Lincoln Continentals. Fusions are now made in Mexico as I recall. When demand was high I think they were made in Mexico and Flat Rock.
It isn't just "kids". There are plenty of reasons for wanting/needing the "in an emergency" seating and/or the additional space without having to go to a 4 door sedan/coupe or and SUV/minivan, etc. Plus, having driven small sports cars in our "younger days" (Lotus Europas, Datsun Z, Sunbeam...
Much as I would like a smaller mustang again (we like the size of our 97 GT compared to our 2015 GT) how do you think Ford could shrink the S650 from S550 dimensions and still "fit" American buyers while keeping "sporty 2 door coupe" styling and having enough room for performance size wheels...