I live up north, have my whole life. If you drive the car in the salt, it's going to get rust at some point. You can't undercoat a body panel. There are more and more aluminum pieces under the cars these days so that helps.
You can go to a used car lot here and pick out which cars and which...
https://www.mustang6g.com/forums/threads/2017-undercarriage-corrosion.99192/
https://www.mustang6g.com/forums/threads/introduction-to-forum-and-2017-mustang-gt-pp-frame-corrosion.147309/
This is a 6 year old post talking about a 10 year old previous generation car but gives you an idea of how...
There's that but there's also not being negligent and driving it through sub zero temperatures, snow and calcium chloride. Do whatever you want with your brand new $60k car though
The people that want their car to stay nice still don't do it.
Why the heck would I want to drive something like a Mustang in the snow anyway? It's terrible. Sure, you can get snow tires, but you just plow chunks of snow and ice with your front bumper, slide all around, get snow inside the car...
The smart ones that live where it snows/salts park their cars during the winter. When I was young and dumb I drove my new Mustangs/Camaros in the snow but I know better now.
It's around 430lb-ft which was coincidentally the rating of the GT350 that it was previously in.
Now, that doesn't mean the second you make more than that it will blow up. Plenty of people are running around with supercharged engines and MT-82's, and before that had supercharged engines with...
If the clutch fluid, fuel, auto trans fluid, etc got all over the exhaust manifold on that side, caught on fire, it's not going out until the fire department gets there
But there are two traps now with two intakes, and they don't need to flow anywhere near as much air since they combine to basically create the number a single one did before. So removing them doesn't help.
And how do you measure the "throttle response" that people always like to talk about?
Do you see any evidence of a leak on the engine anywhere, or coolant collecting in the underbody anywhere?
you can check the oil on the dipstick for coolant milkshake, you don't have to wait for an oil change.