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With the election decided today, there won't be any bigger engines for the Mustang... the Federal standards will stay on their original path of major increases in mileage and decreases in emissions, if they are not accelerated. The only way the 6.8 could fit into this reality is if it rev'd...

Look more closely at CD6... this unibody platform has an almost identical rear suspension to the current Mustang, a much-improved double a-arm front suspension on the Aviator, and aluminun shock towers and front structure. It was purposefully designed to be a lightweight and scalable platform...

I don't believe the 6.8 is a reality, only that it's the Union leader's hopes and dreams for more work in that engine plant. I'd want to see the Union's contract, which yes can sometimes reveal future plans. Whether it actually comes out in anything at all is dependent upon next Wednesday's...

We need to put an end to this total misconception that CD6 would mean a larger and heavier Mustang... just because it's current users are the larger Explorer and Aviator. CD6 is scalable in length and width... it does not mean a larger or heavier Mustang (and CD6 is certainly *not* a truck!)...

What value does the Falcon brand have in the market anymore? Here in North America Falcon was a creative program 60 years ago, purposefully modest in execution, then fell behind and the up-market Torino took it's place. Nobody wanted "modest" anymore by the late 60s or nowadays. People who...

CD6 is not a "CUV" or "SUV", it's a flexible platform that was designed to be used for a variety or purposes. It's Ford's version of the Alpha or FM platforms, both very successful platforms that enabled sports cars that would not have existed otherwise (Camaro and Z) while hosting far higher...

Ford is in a really crucial couple of months here... The Mach-E can be a big hit... IF it's launched as promised (notice how many press statements have been made about that), IF it drives well, IF it has the battery range (which is does not). And it's limited by battery supplies to only 50k...

As soon as that infamous spy pic was published showing the IRS underneath an S197, you realized that S550 was just a reworked S197... open up the CAD, rework here and there, and you have S550. Looking underneath at the floor plan at the launch events, seeing the location of all the hard points...

I see the S650 as a very small-step evolution of the current car... architecturally adding accommodation for a hybrid battery, some very minor engine work with the existing engines, freshening of the front fenders. Not any major weight loss. I can't believe that in this financial climate S650...

No doubt the CD6 team could go for an optimum battery location since the platform was 100% clean-sheet (how often does Ford do that - and we've had two in the same year with the C2). An all-new platform is expensive, and it's modular as it was intended right from the start for use in multiple...

Ok, to summarize: - S650 is a reworked S550 (as that was a reworked S197, as that was a dumbed-down DEW98 - all share hardpoints), whose primary purpose is to add room for a small battery pack for a gas-hybrid engine, and secondarily to update the interior in major ways and suspension in minor...

That is not a Focus wagon... it is a mule built off of a Focus wagon, lengthened (note the cuts and additions to length and slightly to width), and with a new rear suspension. It's intended to compete with something like the Subaru Outback - a very successful and popular vehicle. It's been...

D6 does *not* mean the Mustang will be larger. That is a misconception. It's a platform designed for different users, and can go wider or shorter as needed. That's how modern platforms are developed. D6 will be good news... the rear suspension is similar to what we know now and the front could...

So with DOD, you don't get any performance increase... you get a naturally aspired 4- or 6-cylinder engine when you are off the gas. Drive a 5 liter F-150 some time, compare it against a 3.5EB F-150. There is no comparison. The majority of the market has swung over to the 3.5EB, and it is...

Drive a Supra TT mk4 sometime, with the very slight mods required to get to 400 or 500 or 600 or more. That's one heckuva fun drive, asymmetrical as it is, and the engine is built like a battleship. You'll never go back to naturally aspirated anything after that.

Ford engineers are playing around with this, as well as my own personal favorite - variable lift. The technology is not hard, but it's the financials that are. Again, I gotta wonder about the 5 liter here, because the F-150 program pays the architecture bills for that engine. And that engine...

Some double digit number, nothing more. Look at the Camaro 6.2 before and after that engine got it, and then look at the cost of the SS model. That's the only way to get any kind of approximation, although the SS price increase obviously included the new chassis and other standard features...

Yes, the heads had or have an indentation for the injectors... but Ford engineers gave a very weak explanation at the time why they didn't include it - and reality was that it was purely cost considerations. I'm all for VVL... I have an Infiniti with VVL (and a supercharger) and it's a airflow...

Yes, Mustang has done well in UK... but what are the total numbers there, how much is pent-up demand (having been so difficult to obtain for 30 years)? It will be important to watch the numbers there on a monthly basis over years to answer this one. Same for Australia. That's what determines the...

Yes it will, and that is the saving grace for GM's V-8 family, along with cylinder shut-off and cam phasing. That's the only way it will continue forward. The reality of the Coyote is that it is just an evolution of the modular family (which dates back to late eighties and was first seen...