2015 Ford Mustang
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yeah i'm sure porsche and ford should take your advice as they seem to be struggling. 
the trade-off of old fans vs. new is always difficult. EVERY new corvette that comes out for example is roundly TRASHED by owners of older ones, but every new one brings in new buyers and shows how much better it is. this mustang will be no different. no one design can please everyone, and if you have a LONG and VERY successful model, you don't just throw out all the stuff people have come to associate with it.
the trade-off of old fans vs. new is always difficult. EVERY new corvette that comes out for example is roundly TRASHED by owners of older ones, but every new one brings in new buyers and shows how much better it is. this mustang will be no different. no one design can please everyone, and if you have a LONG and VERY successful model, you don't just throw out all the stuff people have come to associate with it.
2015 Mustang GT Gallery:
http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2015-...stang-gt-live/
2015 Mustang Convertible Gallery: Australia reveal
http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2015-...ralian-reveal/
http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2015-...stang-gt-live/
2015 Mustang Convertible Gallery: Australia reveal
http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2015-...ralian-reveal/
What's the new Mustang's big secret?
The 2015 Ford Mustang is the most technologically advanced example of the model in its half-century history.
Along with an optional 305 hp turbocharged and direct fuel injected four-cylinder engine, and the first independent rear suspension on a regular production ‘Stang, the new car offers a laundry list of electronic goodies.
There’s blind-spot monitoring; reverse cross-traffic alert; adaptive radar cruise control; a collision warning system; four selectable drive modes; a MyFord Touch infotainment interface; Track Apps, which has among other things a built-in quarter-mile clock complete with a drag strip-style Christmas Tree countdown timer and launch control on V8 models to go with it. Even the roof on the convertible version opens twice as fast as the one on the current car can.
But that’s not all.
At the New York unveiling of the car, Mustang Chief Engineer Dave Pericak said that his baby has a few more things up its sleeve than was revealed at the event.
“A lot of new features and technology and I even have some that I’m not ready to tell you about, but we don’t forget how to play to the kid inside of us,” he told FoxNews.com. “We’ve got another feature coming that will be an OEM [original equipment manufacturer] first.”
But what could it possibly be?
Self-parking is old news these days, as is built-in WiFi.
Ford already offers configurable ambient lighting in pretty much all of its cars, including the Mustang, so it won’t be that.
Automated perfuming? Nope, the Mercedes-Benz S-Class
has that for some reason, and the Mustang is a muscle car, after all.
The 2012-2013 Ford Mustang Boss 302 came with a special key that remapped the engine tuning to optimize it for track use, but that’s obviously been done before, by Pericak’s team!
Personally, I’m voting for a pre-installed nitrous oxide system, but am also guessing that the Feds might have an issue with that.
High Gear Media editorial director Marty Padgett suggests a smoky-burnout feature for the launch control for drivers who can’t execute a proper brake stand on their own. This would be awesome, for sure, and is well within the realm of possibility.
In any event, it may be quite a while before we find out. The 2015 Mustang doesn’t go on sale until next Fall.
Have any ideas while we wait? Let us know in the comments section.
http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2013/...ng-big-secret/
The 2015 Ford Mustang is the most technologically advanced example of the model in its half-century history.
Along with an optional 305 hp turbocharged and direct fuel injected four-cylinder engine, and the first independent rear suspension on a regular production ‘Stang, the new car offers a laundry list of electronic goodies.
There’s blind-spot monitoring; reverse cross-traffic alert; adaptive radar cruise control; a collision warning system; four selectable drive modes; a MyFord Touch infotainment interface; Track Apps, which has among other things a built-in quarter-mile clock complete with a drag strip-style Christmas Tree countdown timer and launch control on V8 models to go with it. Even the roof on the convertible version opens twice as fast as the one on the current car can.
But that’s not all.
At the New York unveiling of the car, Mustang Chief Engineer Dave Pericak said that his baby has a few more things up its sleeve than was revealed at the event.
“A lot of new features and technology and I even have some that I’m not ready to tell you about, but we don’t forget how to play to the kid inside of us,” he told FoxNews.com. “We’ve got another feature coming that will be an OEM [original equipment manufacturer] first.”
But what could it possibly be?
Self-parking is old news these days, as is built-in WiFi.
Ford already offers configurable ambient lighting in pretty much all of its cars, including the Mustang, so it won’t be that.
Automated perfuming? Nope, the Mercedes-Benz S-Class
has that for some reason, and the Mustang is a muscle car, after all.The 2012-2013 Ford Mustang Boss 302 came with a special key that remapped the engine tuning to optimize it for track use, but that’s obviously been done before, by Pericak’s team!
Personally, I’m voting for a pre-installed nitrous oxide system, but am also guessing that the Feds might have an issue with that.
High Gear Media
editorial director Marty Padgett suggests a smoky-burnout feature for the launch control for drivers who can’t execute a proper brake stand on their own. This would be awesome, for sure, and is well within the realm of possibility.In any event, it may be quite a while before we find out. The 2015 Mustang doesn’t go on sale until next Fall.
Have any ideas while we wait? Let us know in the comments section.
http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2013/...ng-big-secret/
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From: Virginia/D.C. suburbs
Originally Posted by bitkahuna
the trade-off of old fans vs. new is always difficult. EVERY new corvette that comes out for example is roundly TRASHED by owners of older ones, but every new one brings in new buyers and shows how much better it is. this mustang will be no different. no one design can please everyone, and if you have a LONG and VERY successful model, you don't just throw out all the stuff people have come to associate with it.
And I think you and I can both agree that the four-cylinder/V6 Mustang II of the mid-70s was in insult to the Mustang name. It was, in fact, a redone Pinto....you can tell that just from looking at it.
Last edited by mmarshall; Dec 6, 2013 at 09:49 AM.
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Joined: Mar 2012
Posts: 501
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From: ny
this new design can easily cater to the luxury coupe market as well as the sports car market. I love how they blended the european look into the mustang DNA.
seems like some mustang fans have a hard time understanding and distinguishing what a good design with carefully placed lines is suppose to look like.
I wonder what the bmw and mercedes designers have to say about this. This new mustang just looks absolutely brutal in a intelligent way.
seems like some mustang fans have a hard time understanding and distinguishing what a good design with carefully placed lines is suppose to look like.
I wonder what the bmw and mercedes designers have to say about this. This new mustang just looks absolutely brutal in a intelligent way.