Ah yes, the perennial automaker promise of upgrading existing cars.

Some folks on the mustang6g forum think there’s hidden messages in pictures of the digital dash. All the pictures show the odometer miles as 1964.5, hearkening to the first model year of the Mustang. In one image the car is in 4th gear doing 55 mph, so people are guessing that implies 455 hp. 455 hp would be a…

But 10 years ago it needed a complete makeover to generate sales. The current design has been performing well in the market, the exterior changes were mostly unnecessary. The car probably could have been left the same, but by giving it a mild facelift and adding some new features it can be marketed as a new Mustang…

People have swapped the EB V6 into S197s. I’m sure the swap into an S550 wouldn’t be any easier, and the cars themselves are too new for that to really be an option.

I just would have liked some form of heads up from Ford that the Tuesday release was happening. All I had to go by were rumors and leaks, and I own a friggin Mustang.

I don’t know, adding direct injection to the top motor, changing the transmissions, and adding magnetic ride control seems like some pretty big updates to me.

I like the way mine sounds. It’s significantly deeper in person

It’s a refresh. Same car, some new features.

The headlight has that angle down?

Well they must be really bad at that, cause it doesn’t look like one at all.

There’s a decent gap in between, and I don’t think that a hi-po EB buyer is necessarily a GT buyer. A lot of GT sales aren’t to people looking for performance, they’re just looking for a V8

It’s a totally different car. Huge torque, and it pulls evenly all the way to redline. I love it.

Yeah, a 4 cylinder won’t sound as good as a 6+ but with a decent exhaust the Ecoboost actually doesn’t sound too bad. I wish ford would spend a little R&D on getting a good natural aural experience rather than resorting to BMW-esque fake noise.

Yeah, I’d like to see a technical breakdown of how much air the turbo sucks in.

I have the EB Mustang with the Ford tune. I don’t like to say it’s fast, I usually catch myself and say “well it isn’t fast, it’s quick”. A friend of mine that’s driven it a few times will step in and say no, it’s fast.

I think 4 cyl turbo tuning is getting there. I have the EB with the Ford Performance tune. A friend of mine complained that it made the car too good: it doesn’t drive like you expect turbo 4s to, the power is linear and there’s plenty of torque throughout the rev range.

In the Mustang with Sync 2 and 3 there’s still physical climate controls for the majority of things you need. Temperature, recirc, on/off, fan speed, defrost, A/C, AUTO....the only function that isn’t a physical button is the head/feet selection.

That’s because people that actually buy new cars want them to be nice. Jalopnik readers that complain about new cars don’t buy new cars.

That’s a really dated way of thinking, the current Mustang and Camaro are excellent handling cars

People have noticed the weight difference between the two, and why settle for ‘as close as you can get’ when you can get the perfect number with a different motor?