New Mustang

[jeffrefrig]

Tomorrow they are going to unveil the new mid-engine Mustang Dark Horse at Pebble Beach. Maybe I should play the lottery. I suppose it's to rival the C8 Corvette? Don't know any particulars about it except a couple pictures that "leaked out". Should be interesting, for sure.

 

[Breakaway500]

Waay beyond my pay grade but I'm sure one/some of my students will buy one so that's even better than owning one!

I don't believe they are mid engine... (The Ford GT is) but it will be 500HP without a blower. That's always fun!

One of my students has a Mustang FP350S which you buy through the Ford parts dept as they have no VIN. $115k car "part"!

 

[ladder13]

A 5.2 Voodoo mid engine would get me to a dealer for at least a peek.

 

[ladder13]

Published pics show a long snout, doubt it's a mid engine.

 

[robvious]

Mustang GT3, GT4, Dark Horse R, & Ford GT Mk IV Testing at Sebring Raceway - YouTube

Dark Horse R is the white car
the evil black one is the Ford GT MkIV.. that is a mid engine monster... I know a guy that was on the design team for the Ford GT MkI I guess... that won Lemans... image is his personal car..
no clue why that is upside-down

 

[Golddollar]

Mustang GT3, GT4, Dark Horse R, & Ford GT Mk IV Testing at Sebring Raceway - YouTube

Dark Horse R is the white car
the evil black one is the Ford GT MkIV.. that is a mid engine monster... I know a guy that was on the design team for the Ford GT MkI I guess... that won Lemans... image is his personal car..
no clue why that is upside-down

Oh boy! Another Batmobile!

 

[ladder13]

Mustang GT3, GT4, Dark Horse R, & Ford GT Mk IV Testing at Sebring Raceway - YouTube

Dark Horse R is the white car
the evil black one is the Ford GT MkIV.. that is a mid engine monster... I know a guy that was on the design team for the Ford GT MkI I guess... that won Lemans... image is his personal car..
no clue why that is upside-down

It beeze that way sometimes.

American Supercar.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

Oh boy! Another Batmobile!

Your accountant says: Randy, You can have the car or, You can have the insurance, but you can't have both!

I'm sure boy wonder is heart broken!

Ivan

 

[Alton]

If Chevrolet can build a 1LT mid engine corvette for $70K, I am sure Ford can too. Ford needs something after the Lightning fiasco

 

[venomballistics]

If Chevrolet can build a 1LT mid engine corvette for $70K, I am sure Ford can too. Ford needs something after the Lightning fiasco

Ford needs a whole lineup of somethings.
As much as I loved my SVO, such a car doesn't fit my lifestyle today. Everything else on the Ford lot had me fighting off a sudden onset of narcolepsy.

 

[Golddollar]

Ford needs a whole lineup of somethings.
/QUOTE]

Bring back the Grand Marquis and Town Car!!

 

[31FordA]

Ford needs a whole lineup of somethings.
/QUOTE]

Bring back the Grand Marquis and Town Car!!

YES!!! They need to bring back the Marauder, this time with the 5.0L Coyote engine. If they don't want to resurrect the Mercury division then sell it as a Ford Galaxie. Ford should never have killed off the Panther platform. That decision was emblematic of the mismanagement at Ford.

If I have to choose between a base model new Ford for $40,000 or a really nice '04 Marauder for $35,000 I can tell you which one I'm going into debt for. I'm gonna buy me that Mercury and cruise it up and down the road.

 

[venomballistics]

YES!!! They need to bring back the Marauder, this time with the 5.0L Coyote engine. If they don't want to resurrect the Mercury division then sell it as a Ford Galaxie. Ford should never have killed off the Panther platform. That decision was emblematic of the mismanagement at Ford.

If I have to choose between a base model new Ford for $40,000 or a really nice '04 Marauder for $35,000 I can tell you which one I'm going into debt for. I'm gonna buy me that Mercury and cruise it up and down the road.

Mismanagement is only part of the problem.
At any point where they made a passenger car in the past 20 years, you can find a Japanese counterpart who's base model would out perform it and outlast it, for half the price.
Focus or Civic?
Take the civic. There are examples on the road with owners manuals written in hieroglyphics, dragging most of its parts behind it, and somehow, keeps moving. A focus of similar vintage is probably the recycled steel in a Kia.
Japan builds the best car they can within the mission parameters it's built to address. Domestic brands keep withholding advancements teasing the next model year.
Ford had a 2.3 turbo they put in nothing since about 79 .... How long was the mid engine Corvette idea dangled like a carrot?
They need to look at Japan, and see how selling the whole car is how you compete.
Their market dried up because the customer base figuered it out

 

[cmj8591]

Does it have the lock? How about MIM parts?

 

[johngalt]

A couple weeks back I saw my very first Ford GT (the good one from mid 2000), red. If only I knew what they would be worth today (and could afford it).

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

Meh....say what you want but at the end of the day it's still a Ford.