The front of the stack is what's inportant. Many of my students in street cars end up bracing against it. A few students actually broke theirs.

The solution is to get a proper seat.

That's what my friends at Vorschlag are telling me.

Comments on the dash: The twin "visors" on top of the dash are VERY reminiscent of the early Mustangs. I like that.

The cventer stack is bog and busy. Te way it flares out to accommodate the MyTouch screen is going to be an issue with enthusiasts who take their car to the track since most drivers brace themselves…

Fortunately, the transmissions stay simple. There's a proper manual as before, but at least the automatic option gets paddle shifters with rev-matching downshifts.

Where's the brake caliper? Let's hope the 15" brakes come with a decent caliper, and not something from the corporate parts bin.

Oh, and the sequential turn signals remain. My lust for the current Mustang, even in V6 convertible weekend special form, was based primarily around those.

Look at the car long enough, though, and it grows on you.

Ford wants the Mustang to branch out and be a global car, with as much as 10% of the total output going overseas. That's why it's being prepped with options, from an fuel-sipping four-cylinder engine to adaptive this and that. There's going to be a 2015 Ford Mustang for just about every taste, thanks to the tech.

Yes, it finally has independent rear suspension, which means it's caught up with the rest of the world and abandoned a suspension setup you'd expect from a car that stars on The Andy Griffith Show. When you want to drive it every day, it should be like a modern car. For many buyers, that's a very good thing.

Actually I'm not so sure your logic applies to the buying public.

Sure, they want a FASTER car. But Joe and Mary six-pack wouldn't know a fast car if it drove up their cavernous left nostril and did burnouts.

But if they can look at a marketing brochure and see that the Mustang has 550HP, versus the competitors 540HP,…

Sad news today for American F1 fans who were hoping to watch a race live in a place that isn't Texas: the embattled Grand Prix of America at Port Imperial, aka the Grand Prix of New Jersey, won't be happening in 2014 after all. Sad face!

No bet. I really don't care if its plastic, fiberglass, or paper-mache'.

Its Ford. Its plastic

Anything that distracts from the task of driving is unnecessary: radios, passengers, automatic transmissions...

While I understand how consumption-optimized driving fun can be useful on a long trip, this still feels like one of those useless car functions people will never use anyway. Many lines of programming wasted right there.

I grew up in a rural town. Sex education was a non-issue. Kids learned animal husbandry before middle school (and most of the kids grew up watching the farm animals LONG before the husbandry classes.) We had the basic mechanics down pretty early.

Ad for the social and emotional aspects, we lived in the country. We…

Or maybe you just suck at sarcasm.

The radiator is located on a trailer that's still under development (they're having a hard time finding trailer tires that are rated above 200mph.)

Leading the way? Yes. They may be leading the way but the question is what are they leading the way to?

Dad has one of these in a '68 F100. It doesn't look like this though. It looks like a big lump of grease with an air cleaner on top.