2015 Ford Mustang - General Discussion

[McLaren]

Again you single out one specific car across a broad model range. One car doesn't make them all that way. But best to drop it here than start world war three.

"That's fine because you're not the one who brought it up. However, your claim that "bigger cars are the problem" was pretty stupid considering you love a year/body style that isn't any bigger by marginal numbers than the current generation.'

Perhaps if you stopped & read posts directed towards you instead of letting your brain just click, "Post Reply" to everything, you'd see why I singled that car out; you can't claim cars are getting too big when the era you brown nose isn't smaller by any considerable means, esp. the specific cars you love to brag about.

 

[Leonidae@MFT]

Eh, why don't we just agree that old cars were aesthetically better looking than the current ones..

 

[Dagger311]

A certain friend of mine has asked me to post this here.

Carbon fiber rear end.

 

[catamount39]

I spy Shelby badge.

 

[Dagger311]

Yup, that's a GT350, according to the title in the picture's url.

 

[Team THRT Drift]

Not bad..... not bad at all.

 

[CodeRedR51]

I spy a photoshop.

 

[Dagger311]

You may be right.

The bottom is a little different on the blue one, but...

 

[Omnis]

But... It's a freaking photoshop. Duh.

 

[Beeblebrox237]

You may be right.

The bottom is a little different on the blue one, but...

That, plus this:

equals photoshop.

 

[Dagger311]

That, plus this:

equals photoshop.

I'm not good at finding photoshops. How can you tell the first one is?

 

[Beeblebrox237]

I'm not good at finding photoshops. How can you tell the first one is?

Mainly the fact that the shopped photo has a lot of details, colours, and textures from the previous Shelby Mustang. It's also a very easy angle to photoshop convincingly. The stripes aren't quite straight, and the texture number plate surround is flat while the bumper is contoured.

 

[Dagger311]

Mainly the fact that the shopped photo has a lot of details, colours, and textures from the previous Shelby Mustang. It's also a very easy angle to photoshop convincingly. The stripes aren't quite straight, and the texture number plate surround is flat while the bumper is contoured.

Ah, okay.

But anyway, I hope they do it, cause that looks nice.

 

[CodeRedR51]

Took this less than 10 minutes ago outside my apartment. Not sure what the guys were doing, but, it was a GT with the big wheels on it. Love it in white, hate the silly pony in the grille. The GT badge on the back was pretty big, too.

Think you may have seen R&T doing their thing.

 

[NinjaDesignz]

Out of R&T, Motor Trend, and Car and Driver, it seems as Motor Trend got the best 0-60 times.

Motor Trend: 4.4 sec
Car and Driver: 4.5 sec
Road & Track: 4.6 sec

http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/coupes/1409_2015_ford_mustang_gt_first_test/

http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/2015-ford-mustang-gt-first-drive-review

http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-rev...rd-mustang-gt-first-impressions?src=soc_fcbks

 

[Badasp5.0]

I cannot wait till MM&FF's Evan Smith gets a hold of one. His 1/4 times are always amazing. He got high 12s out of a bone stock '98 Z28 and 12.43 out of a stock '03 Cobra.

 

[eSZee]

I spy a photoshop.

A really poor one at that.

 

[dsgerbc]

The GT ended up quite porky...

 

[Team THRT Drift]

The GT ended up quite porky...

Let's not start this again...

 

[Beeblebrox237]

The GT ended up quite porky...

For a modern car, it's really not bad at all.

 

[dsgerbc]

Let's not start this again...

Why? Was the actual weight known before?

For a modern car, it's really not bad at all.

Agreed, but still. I was expecting to have a much harder choice between a '15 GT and '15 SS w/MT: 4 doors vs. considerably faster car.

But now I'm pretty much set on the SS.

 

[Leonidae@MFT]

I still think that the EB 'stang with track pack and manual is the best option in the range. Especially once the warranty is over.

 

[YSSMAN]

Think you may have seen R&T doing their thing.

Huh. Maybe? It was pretty far away from Ann Arbor all the way over here in Grand Rapids, if that were the case. Although, I know C/D comes over here pretty often for pieces, and to run tests up at Grattan Raceway. Actually, a lot of the automakers bring their cars up there to test. Could have been all the above!


I read most of the major reviews of the Mustang, and it sounds like its most of everything that we expected; A civilized, well-done sports coupe that keeps the Mustang ideology going, while still being a global product. Everybody likes it because its legitimately a good car - what a novel concept! The GT is still a hell of a performance deal, even if you can't get a stripped out one for less than $30k (how I will miss those 2012 days...), but, it sounds like the EcoBoost variant will be more than enough for most people, and will only take a little getting used to. But, I think more than anything, I'm interested in seeing what the aftermarket comes up with. There are so many different ways to go with the new Mustang, I can't wait to see what people do. Particularly with the EcoBoost.

Still, uh, someone find a way to get rid of the pony on the front and back and let me throw on some ST badges, please.

 

[88GTA]

"...how is the handling performance of the 2015 Mustang? We’ll turn to Motor Trend to find out, who recently had a go in fully-loaded 2015 Mustang GT Premium model complete with the 435 horsepower 5.0-liter Coyote V8. On the figure eight course, the car and its fancy new IRS suspension put down a time of 24.7 seconds at an average of 0.84g. That’s quicker than the last Mustang GT (25.0 seconds at 0.77 g average) and is also better than the track-focused Mustang Boss 302, which did it in 24.7 seconds at an average of 0.78 g. MT never put the stock Camaro SS around the figure eight as far as we can tell, but for comparisons sake, the 2013 Camaro SS 1LE did the figure eight in 24.2 seconds at an average 0.83 g."

"MT says the 2015 Mustang “didn’t feel like the front and rear ends were talking to each other,” and “turning in off-throttle resulted in moderate push (understeer from the front end), which needed to be corrected with the throttle.” They concluded that they were “expecting more” out of the Mustang’s IRS, but chalked the understeer/oversteer behaviour up to the Mustang’s 3814 lb kerb weight, which is 196 lbs more than the last Mustang GT."



Source: http://gmauthority.com/blog/2014/09...e-bar-for-alpha-2016-camaro-to-match-surpass/

 

[Leonidae@MFT]

At least the manual Ecoboost will be in the 3500lbs range.. Barely so.

 

[Slash]

Sorry they are so small..

And thanks to the new IRS and heavier weight the 2015 GT is slower in the 1/4 mile than the outgoing 2014.

 

[Leonidae@MFT]

Barely slower. It did nearly match the Boss 302's performance though, so..

 

[Badasp5.0]

Barely slower. It did nearly match the Boss 302's performance though, so..

Its only a few tenths slower right?

 

[Slash]

Its only a few tenths slower right?

It outperformed the Boss 302

 

[Badasp5.0]

It outperformed the Boss 302

Sorry quoted the wrong post. I ment 1/4 times vs the '14 GT