Great Touring Car

[bimmerborn]

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[rixretired]

It most certainly is!

 

[Starship Enterprise]

It is extremely comfortable…especially after 17 years in my lowered 06 GT. Borderline cushy Ride!

 

[LouG]

It certainly lives up to the GT part. It's like the old Jag slogan, grace, space and pace. Space for two anyway.

 

[steveo1960]

Wifey and I take long trips, couple of hundred miles each way, on weekends with highway and back roads type driving (upper NYS) and this is one of the best touring cars I have ever owned in my 65 years on earth. Mine is stock 401a premium with AE and automatic, no MR, and I absolutely love it. In my opinion the interior at least on the premium 401a, approaches BMW level comfort and quality in similar price range. I have no plans to modify anything suspension wise on this car as I am very happy with it stock.

 

[Cavedog]

That is what I bought the Mustang for. Not many v8 convertibles available. We like to pick out a small town and diner and make relaxed drive for dinner. We like to get lost and use nav to find a way back home. I'm trying to the voice commands. Some are surprisingly useful.

 

[Bear376]

Just got back from a 3500 mile trip where we toured the USAF museum at Wright-Patterson, attended the Mustang Club of America Grand National, toured the USMC National Museum, the Udvar-HazyMuseum at Dulles. Unfortunately, the ride back was marred when my BIL’s GT350 lost its A/C and I got a flu bug. So no Tail of the Dragon and other activities. He did a 10 hour night ride back home from our Tennessee stop and I took two days with hourly stops. The car was a champ, getting 26+ mpg on most legs.

 

[Frogdog1]

Just got back from a 3500 mile trip where we toured the USAF museum at Wright-Patterson, attended the Mustang Club of America Grand National, toured the USMC National Museum, the Udvar-HazyMuseum at Dulles. Unfortunately, the ride back was marred when my BIL’s GT350 lost its A/C and I got a flu bug. So no Tail of the Dragon and other activities. He did a 10 hour night ride back home from our Tennessee stop and I took two days with hourly stops. The car was a champ, getting 26+ mpg on most legs.

You didn't really miss much from the Tail of the Dragon because a GT has way too much HP to do it any kind of justice and if you putter around on it, you will find out what "in the way" really means, so not much fun. I've run it a few hundred times on sport bikes and cars since I live fairly close. A Miata will outrun most cars on it. I know 'cause we used to have one. The scenery is nice though.

 

[Bear376]

I did the Tail over ten years ago, but did not have time to stop and be a tourist. I also wanted to do the skyway ridge scenic drive. I have to go to Chattanooga in late October, but I don’t know if the weather will be an issue.

 

[AZ_Ryan]

I drove across town yesterday and was on the freeway quite a bit. I remember thinking, damn this drives nice! Its so comfortable while cruising. Definitely a great road car.

 

[Timry2]

You got to take her down the 1 to Monterey. Just go during a weekday. Its a more than perfect drive.

 

[Frogdog1]

I did the Tail over ten years ago, but did not have time to stop and be a tourist. I also wanted to do the skyway ridge scenic drive. I have to go to Chattanooga in late October, but I don’t know if the weather will be an issue.

The Skyway is actually more fun to me, better scenery, longer to enjoy, and much safer. The Dragon is a great place to have a bad wreck, or worse.

 

[LouG]

The Skyway is actually more fun to me, better scenery, longer to enjoy, and much safer. The Dragon is a great place to have a bad wreck, or worse.

From what I've seen in vids, the Dragon's a place for bikes. Or maybe a Caterham or KTM X Bow.

 

[Deleted member 61195]

I did a 2000 mile road trip to the central coast of Calif. Drove as far as San Simeon, hung out around San Luis Obispo and down the coast to San Diego. My Calif. Special drove flawlessly. It was a comfortable ride. My only complaint was the road noise. The old concrete surface interstate was brutal. The asphalt and new concrete I have no complaints. My tinnitus was through the roof. Other than that had a great drive.

 

[Frogdog1]

I would like to drive the Blueridge Parkway, again, but the Feds. will get you if you do over 45 which is kind of ridiculous to do on such a scenic drive.

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