I'm not here to defend Ford, but this reveal has been a slow roll out of information by design. There's a ton of details we still don't know, and we won't know for a few months. We've all been here before. These manufacturers tend to string us along until they're ready to lift the embargo. I've...
You know we have reached peak bitching season when an engineer is expected to give a Morgan Freeman-like narration :cwl:
If they had thrown Jim Owens out there people would've complained "he's such a meatball". People aren't happy unless they're unhappy.
Just to be clear I'm no "snow flake". anyone here is free to express their opinion without being canceled. But it can be done without being an ass. If you chose to be an ass expect to be called out. My whole argument for Ford following the demographics is in a sense a form of generalization...
You really shouldn't generalize an entire group of people based on your very limited experience. I'll be 41 next month, born in 1981. Technically that makes me a millennial. I've purchased a 2002 GT, 2005 GT, 2016 GT350, and currently a 2020 GT500.
@analogman I'm not debating the virtues of the current "digital" trend. That's for each Individual consumer to decide. I'm just naming some examples of what happens when corporations fail to follow the larger trends or join too late. This forum is an extremely small sample size and not diverse...
Ford is following the market at large. If it does not it will die. A few recent examples: Blackberry, did not embrace touch screen phones. Blockbuster, did not embrace streaming and passed on a chance to buy Netflix. Nobody can argue they chose poorly.
On the other hand Corvette (a nameplate...
To each their own. And I'm not trying to sound elitist. But have you ever driven a GT 500? If not, trust me it leaves nothing to be desired. The DCT is not a standard auto trans. Think of it as an automated manual. Full disclosure every prior Mustang I've owned had manual transmissions.
This is all speculation of course. But, don't expect Ford to follow the same script with this generation. 4 levels of performance is enough IMO. Not to mention the performance packages. The S550 had what? 5 levels plus the various performance packages. Sadly once you go Shelby you never go...
It's all about demographics. Boomers are beyond the peak of their spending years. Gen X and Millenials are in or approaching their prime spending years. Ford is not wrong for embracing that. IMO Ford is not doing a bad job of balancing past, present, and future.