If nothing else this thread confirms Ford should never attempt to revive the fox body. Everything fox body inspired about the s650 people seem to hate. The interior, specifically the dashboard of the s650 looks very similar to the fox body, just swap the screen for the instrument cluster pod...
It has all the business lol. Fun cars deserve fun colors. People who don't like it can still buy a black car, but don't stop me from having a teal mustang lol.
Exactly, where there's smoke, there's usually fire. Nothing is confirmed of course, but multiple people are coming over 900 hp, and now AWD hybrid. It just makes a lot of sense. Ford seems to be working a lot harder to differentiate mustang variants. They already have a GT 350/ Mach 1...
Was the camouflaged prototype you saw white and black with bits of lime green? If so, that's the RTR Ecoboost prototype. I've watched a couple of vids, that's the only prototype mule there. The mule recently spied wasn't at the show.
I firmly believe when you were talking to the Ford rep, and...
It's kinda depressing honestly. Ford is giving us so much and it feels like most of the comments I see are negative. Not all of course.
I'm not denying there are areas where Ford can improve, but they're making a V8 RWD manual sports car in fun colors with a good looking design at a time where...
Kinda sad to see people hating the color. After 20 years of black, white, and gray, I'm so ready to have fun colors again. Looks like I'm in the minority.
With all due respect, those reps are told not to say shit. Like their go to response on any future product or test mule is guaranteed to be "We don't comment on future products".
I guarantee that rep was confused and thinking about something else. My first guess is you said mustang prototype...
Exactly, and I've said for some time now with Ford getting more serious about mustang performance, certain trims are basically c8 rivals. Using the cobra name to rival the Corvette makes a lot of sense imo.
As for the car being special. But if these rumors of a 5.2 hybrid are true, and it's...
I'm not a fan of the wheels, but that color is pure sex. It's gonna be an option on all other mustangs, so on like a normal GT with gunmetal wheels it's gonna look epic.
I hope so as well, I can see a future, years and years from now where the hybrid 5.0 is the only 5.0. That might annoy some, but seeing as once it gets to that point it'll almost certainly mean a gt is putting up like 600 hp between the 5.0 and the electric motors.
So going hybrid will reduce...
The GTD was ambitious as hell. It sounds like the s650 base gt is kinda minimum effort, but it also seems like the performance variants are really swinging for the fences.
So I know Stangmode isn't the most credible source, he's kinda 50/50. But he does genuinely know people within Ford working on mustang and mustang variants. Like the designer who did the previous gt 500 and the s650, as well as Jim Owens and I would assume some other people.
Take this with a...
I didn't know this, but while Ford doesn't own the gt 350 and gt 500 names and has to pay a licensing fee to Shelby to use them, they do own the cobra name outright which surprised me.
Bringing back the cobra name certainly has some appeal. Cooler than calling it the gt 500 imo.