[mustangmanic]

Originally Posted by psycho bob it would greatly depend on when they are available to special order one, how much they are, and what kind of power they will be putting out. ford really should just charge a bit more off the bat and forge the internals. if they did i'd bet they would sell many more. imagine a n/a mustang that the bottom end would hold well past 7 or 800 hp mark after modding

I agree with being forged, that would be badeace!

[invisa stang]

Originally Posted by mustangmanic I agree with being forged, that would be badeace!

+1

[07stanggt]

Originally Posted by BWAL09 IMO ford needs to break away from the retro styling.. i think that's what is keeping alot of people from buying a new mustang

Keeping alot of people from buying the new stang?? If I saw anymore of these where I live i would sell mine. They are like assholes around here, everybody has one. The car is selling like crazy.

[07stanggt]

Originally Posted by ZOOTOXIN all cars are soon to be required to have a minimum of 35 miles to the gallon...There is a energy crises and Ford needs to and is thinking differently. If the mustang continues to be around for another 10 years I promise you the engine will be smaller and they will be turbo powered for the crazy horses. turbo is the future of muscle....like it or not.

Turbo on a mustang? Dont make me throw up. I do agree with you though. GM is the one who will be catching up. Bigger displacement is not the future, and gm is way begind when is comes to ovc engines. With emisions and gas milaege standards Ford is on the right track With the 4.6.

[EfylSetaf]

Not traditionally muscle car-ish, but GM is making turns to release some common-rail, bi-turbo, diesel engined vehicles over the next year or two. They're licensing the blu-tec emissions washing technology from Mercedes along with BMW to make the emissions 50-states legal.

Don't laugh at those turbo diesels - the one BMW is putting in their 335d puts out 284 bhp and 427 lbs/ft of torque. The peak torque is hit at under 2000 rpms. The upshot? The thing gets a combined city/highway mileage of 37mpg.

When these diesels were released in Europe, three years later over 60% of all cars sold were turbo-diesels. When this ball gets rolling in the US, I wouldn't doubt Ford'd have a way to make a Mustang with big engine posting big numbers - inlcuding mpg. It may take them a year to play catch up - but when GM and Chrysler are doing it with the Camero and Challenger in three years....

The only downside I can see is I haven't seen any of the bi-turbo diesels with a manual transmission yet. Not sure why.

That's still a few years off and I'm not certain cars like the 05+ Mustang can be anything other than what they are right now. They just seem so damn right.

[LV51FER]

They drive diesels in Europe because fuel is now over $2 a litre. They are quick and they are getting better all the time but they still sound like taxis and they still don't have very good power characteristics with narrow power bands. Personally, I hate them but they are getting good enough to take the pain away if it ever becomes compulsory to own one. just pray it doesn't.

[JcSurge311]

i gotta say i agree totally with the whole charger not being a retro i mean seriously come on how can u have a 4 door muscle i mean dont get me wrong there was alot of cars back in the day that had tons of horse power and was 4 doors but most weighed so much that it actually needed that horse power to actually get it around lol and as for the new mustang coming IMO i think like others have said not really much of a change from looks so far..theyll stay somewhat close to the way they have it now just changed up a lil just like they did with the fox bodys back in the day

[Ho_Edge]

i dont like the antenna being on the rear ~

[1FUN4RD]

Originally Posted by Ho_Edge i dont like the antenna being on the rear ~

I wish they would do a hide away one ore one that is built into the windsheild

[AnimalCrackers]

Did you really just bump an 8 month old thread to make a comment about the antenna?

[1FUN4RD]

No, I followed the link from the Modded Mustangs Homepage about updates & that it was being discussed in this thread which I got to by clicking the little link..

[1FUN4RD]

Oops... my bad. I got to the main page from a link on Google looking for info on the 2010. I am guessing thats how I got confused..

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[1FUN4RD]

[AnimalCrackers]

lol, k, just checkin. In that case, yea I wish the antennas were retracteable or at least smaller.

[bigpappy33]

dont most cars now adays have their antenna built into the rear defroster? im pretty sure thats where mine was on my Lincoln LS which was built in 2000. so obviously ford has the technology...

[zack065]

Originally Posted by TheUNZippee! Not in my case. As Luis said it got me to buy one. Along with a record number of other people. In fact the reason the Challenger & Maro are being built is because Dodge & Chevrolet saw the incredible success Ford was having with the new S197.

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[07stanggt]

Originally Posted by AnimalCrackers lol, k, just checkin. In that case, yea I wish the antennas were retracteable or at least smaller.

Originally Posted by bigpappy33 dont most cars now adays have their antenna built into the rear defroster? im pretty sure thats where mine was on my Lincoln LS which was built in 2000. so obviously ford has the technology...

Plenty of places selling 8 inch antennas.


Yea then have the technology. it cost money. it is the only 300 hp car for under 30,000. they gotta cut corners somewhere.

[ia07gt]

Just a rumor guys but i heard the new E-85 engine will be an option.
twin turbo v6 that produces over 400horses.