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Hi - Hopefully the area on the trunk lid where the GT letters appear is no longer as easily scratched… Bruce
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There is ONE thing I wish Ford would fix and that being the sharp point in the door so it's NOT the highest point of contact. Not only does paint chip easily in such an arrangement, it damages the other car very easily. You can still have the crease but have the curve below it be subtly more pronounced.

Like Audi does it. :)
 

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There is ONE thing I wish Ford would fix and that being the sharp point in the door so it's NOT the highest point of contact. Not only does paint chip easily in such an arrangement, it damages the other car very easily. You can still have the crease but have the curve below it be subtly more pronounced.

Like Audi does it. :)
Can you post up an example of which Audi you’re referring to? I feel like most of them incorporate standard character lines across the flanks which isn’t what Ford’s doing here

Adding the additional hard line across the shoulder would interrupt the shape theyre going for, just trying to picture what you’re saying
 

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Can you post up an example of which Audi you’re referring to? I feel like most of them incorporate standard character lines across the flanks which isn’t what Ford’s doing here

Adding the additional hard line across the shoulder would interrupt the shape theyre going for, just trying to picture what you’re saying
it's at night, in a garage and using flash... 2012 Audi S5, v8, 6mt. Last of it's kind.

You can see the character line and how the door below it is bowed outward so that should the door touch another it's on a large radius surface and not a sharp edge like on Mustang, guarenteed to do damage to self or other. It's like Ford designers don't bother to open the god damn door and LOOK at the design in cross section and ponder "What could possibly go wrong here?"

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It's like Ford designers don't bother to open the god damn door and LOOK at the design in cross section and ponder "What could possibly go wrong here?"
At least it's not like the C8 where the top of the boomerang sticks out like a knife.
 


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IDK if it is that color or what, but that front end design looks terrible. on this particular car. Really don't see myself getting into a 2024 at this point now. Eeesh....
 

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IDK if it is that color or what, but that front end design looks terrible. on this particular car. Really don't see myself getting into a 2024 at this point now. Eeesh....
this comment is ironic coming from an 18 catfish owner
 

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this comment is ironic coming from an 18 catfish owner
As opposed to an unfinished looking, lackluster front end with little to no personality whatsoever?
 

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Back in your feelings again lol? You can’t argue the irony in that guy’s comment. Different strokes for different folks and thats all good and well.

As opposed to an unfinished looking, lackluster front end with little to no personality whatsoever?
 

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Back in your feelings again lol? You can’t argue the irony in that guy’s comment. Different strokes for different folks and thats all good and well.
Nothing to do with feelings, just stepping up for '18 plus owners, because the 'irony' would suggest the 24 front end is better looking than the so called catfish front end ... it's not. As you said, different strokes. All good.
 

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Thanks for the photos.
I'm really torn between Oxford White, Race Red, and Yellow Splash.

Can anyone who has seen these in the wild, compare these to other known global brand yellows?

Is YS close to the yellow on a DHL delivery van?

Am I right... YS seems closer to school bus yellow than triple yellow.
In this order:

Same as on the other Ford products.

Same as on the other Ford products.

Giallo Orion from Lamborghini but flat, it'll grow on you. Stunner at first, but in a way of "Wow, I didn't think I'd see a yellow like this on a Mustang!" Does not at all look like a DHL van yellow, it's 2 or 3 shades brighter. Not ugly at all.

I wish they would have done something with OW like they did with Pristine White on the Lincolns. Triple layer paint. It would have looked amazing, but OW is still a great option.

From what I've seen I'm in love with Rapid Red and Atlas blue. I'm torn between doing that on a GT PP with the bronze accent package or a DH.
 

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Lmao

literally identical

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The 2005 and 2006 S197 had rear wings. For the 2007+ S197, Ford changed to spoilers. Will Ford stick with a same philosophy and give 2026 model a spoiler?
 

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The 2005 and 2006 S197 had rear wings. For the 2007+ S197, Ford changed to spoilers. Will Ford stick with a same philosophy and give 2026 model a spoiler?
Can you provide reference pics? My google search is not working
 

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The 2005 and 2006 S197 had rear wings. For the 2007+ S197, Ford changed to spoilers. Will Ford stick with a same philosophy and give 2026 model a spoiler?
I don't think it's a matter of pattern that dictates what they'll offer, just what the designers think works best with the given design and what's trending during the respective eras. I'm sure it's customary at this point to differentiate basic trims with a basic lip, then to offer something more aggressive as standard for a GT, and then a little extra for things like performance packs and handling packs.

Nowadays, those stupid devil-horned split wings/lips are all over the place. You see them on Ms, AMGs, really all over modern cars now, and now the S650 has them on the performance package cars and DH. It's like they did the inverse of a centrally raised gurney flap.

I'm sure this styling is partly because it's the latest cosmetic trend that sells well (and might prove my distaste of them the minority opinion), and it's probably backed up by some marketing mumbo jumbo in that it places more aerodynamic forces in places that are more efficient, like where air channels more heavily or the fact that they're placed more directly over the wheels (when in reality it probably makes zero practical difference). Some shit that Ferrari did with its split wing designs on its later-era cars.

But to reply more directly to your question, we're most likely going to see several variations of lips, spoilers, and wings.

I can't wait for this split-end look to die out:

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PS, Ford has this obsession lately of designing ugly pedestal wing spoilers with chunky central mounting points. All of their wings would look 1,000,000,000,000 times better without those things. Always made the back of PP S550 GTs look so ugly imo.
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