They are functional though. On the GT350 they duct air to the oil cooler and trans cooler.

Break out the tears now. Its a cross-plane supercharged 5.2

Well the GT500 sorta turns. Its better than a Hellcat in that regard but agreed with the power Ford appears to be planning I dont think thye can get enough tire and chassis under the car to make it a double threat to both the Demon and the ZL1-1LE.

Required since keeping what will probably be 770+ horsepower from going into limp mode after a 1/4 mile is like a thing consumers expect these days.

The 5.8 was a 5.4 derivative (remember Ford switched to a 5.4 aluminum block before the arrival of the 5.8) with the added displacement coming from the PWTA process in the 5.8. Other than some changes made to handle the added output and over-rev feature of the 5.8 it was nearly identical to the 5.4 in most every…

Its a supercharged 5.2 cross-plane V8 and its supercharged for packaging reasons. No way to fit an EB V8 in the car ( yes, they had an EB V8 race car but it didn’t have any packaging limitations).

Some Ford guys dropped a comment about how “venom kills demons” and they have been dropping hints with the display with the gauges showing “772". That puts s it right in the ball park for p/w if the GT500 comes in around 4000 pounds.

Not for long if they do. Hackett just plans to make Explorer on the D6 platform. That was Ford’s next gen modular platform which was supposed to underpin a next gen Continental, Fusion and Mustang.

>>shrugs<< nobody is buying sedans, coupes, or sports cars in the US anymore. Its all brodozers, mini brodozers, and cuddly brodozers.

Yeah on a bad day... The LT Camaro runs just under a 14 second 1/4. I was running faster than that in my old 07 Mustang GT consistently and my 15 GT was faster car all around compared to the 07 GT.

I would NEVER cross-shop a Camaro with a Mustang, yet car magazines for some reason want to set up those types of cross-shopping comparisons all the time.

The gen III coyote is making closer to 470-480 horsepower. There are a litany of dyno runs where the A10 cars are making 415-420 wheel horsepower. The gen III coyote is essentially a 5.2 Voodoo lite - bit smaller bore and a little less displacement but they both run 12:1 compression ratio and as seems to be standard…

The Boss was a well sorted car and if your used to a live axle they can definitely run but if you haven’t already been able to grab a seat in the GT350 the difference is immediately apparent (the GT’s are nice but too softly spring IMO) and a lot of that is attributable to the IRS - and to a lesser extent the front…

The RHD Mustangs don’t put down 435 horsepower. Ford rates the RHD 5.0 at 416 horsepower and 390 pound feet of torque in Europe for example so the 410 in Australia makes sense. IIRC they’ve always posted lower power numbers there I believe due to a less aggressive tune which is probably related to the environment…

It wasn’t just the IRS. The S550 structure is a bit more substantial compared to the S-197 and definitely the fox based cars before that.

Toyota engineer says engineer stuff. Armchair engineers use anecdotal engineering to immediately prove he is lying....

This!

Agreed, that was uncalled for but America is an angry place these days.

Plenty of malaise era stuff was cool, my favorite are the H-body cars from GM (Monza, Skyhawk, Starfire and so on).

you forgot your sarcastic emoji - would be pretty cool though like the time Chris Harris ran a Mercedes around a track with the donuts on all four corners.