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exdeath said:
Lighter compared to what? It's already much much lighter than all of it's competition.

Not every car needs to be made out of carbon fiber and paper and be as fragile as a F1 car. Are we seriously expecting a production commuter car to be a bare bones 1800 lb paper mache supercar like an Aero or McLaren? Then the elitists would just complain how everything is "flimsy plastic" aka Corvette rear bumper cover.

Just buy a motorcycle and be done with it.
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Car enthusiasts can be stupid. When the JK Wrangler came out, people complained that the fenders were plastic. Really assholes, you'd rather have a metal fender that will bend if you rub it on a tree, and cost a lot of money to replace? And now they replace them with ones made of tube steel, which if you rub on a tree will bend the Jeep's body.
 
SpatiallyAware said:
That is a small car... Think something the size of a z4 or sky (slightly bigger than a miata) with a 180hp ecoboost 4 as a base engine. Ideally it would have reused mustang parts... rear end, trans, brakes, etc

Ford is about the only company that does not have a car to fit that market.
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Gotcha, I was thinking more like a Corvette. I think the small 2-seater is a good market, but I obviously haven't done any 'market analysis.'
 
Throckmorton said:
I don't think Ford needs a 2 seater. It would only cannibalize the Mustang. It probably wouldn't pay for itself either. Look at the Sky/Solstice.

No reason a sports car can't be a 2+2. Look at the 911.
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Yeah... But then you have the cayman, which is better than the 911 in every way except outright power. I'm envisioning a cayman-esque ford but with an ecoboost v8.....
 
power_hour said:
All they need to do is smoothen the edges, put that IRS in there and call it a day. Really don't get why people are so against a Turbo 4. They make decent economical DD and can be modded for the weekend track.

But for the love of all good car things, make the damn car lighter.
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If I wanted an economical DD I'd buy a cruze or a focus 😛
 
How about a 2.3L Mustang Cobra?

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Something I don't understand. Why is the Mustang II referred to as the 2nd generation Mustang? The 1971-73 Mustang looks completely different from the original Mustang and is much bigger, so how can it also be a 1st gen?

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I'll give you a little hint as to why the solid axle has been around so long on the Mustang:

DRAG RACING

For every Throckmorton bitching that they won't buy a mustang without IRS, there's probably 2 rednecks that wouldn't buy one to go drag racing

On another note, I agree with everything exdeath ever says about cars

Ford MADE IRS on the 2003-2004 Cobra. And a lot of owners swapped it out for solid axle. Some solid axle mustang owners converted to IRS. Obviously each has it's benefits.

I see a properly engineered IRS being the biggest problem. You can't just easily throw a bigger differential, axles, etc at it it like you can with a solid axle setup. So Ford had either make the IRS extremely resilient (which would be very expensive!) or face a lot of angry customers.

It's funny though that Ford switched to OHC sooner than anyone else, but is last to the IRS party
 
ketchup79 said:
If it were obvious, there wouldn't be so many arguments about it here.
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Right, because people only argue over things if one person is right and the other is wrong.

Solid axles have clear benefits over IRS- particularly in their simplicity and straight line performance. I'm not going to deny that from a pure handling perspective IRS is the most versatile, but in the real world where cost and longevity matter it may not always be the right choice.
 
yottabit said:
Right, because people only argue over things if one person is right and the other is wrong.

Solid axles have clear benefits over IRS- particularly in their simplicity and straight line performance. I'm not going to deny that from a pure handling perspective IRS is the most versatile, but in the real world where cost and longevity matter it may not always be the right choice.
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This is the reason why all my dad's drag cars have had a solid rear axle (well, that and the fact that most of them were quite old).
 
Don Karnage said:
If Ford offered a 350hp ecoboost 4cyl that got 35mpg on the highway i see no reason to even keep the V6 around unless ford wants to drop the V6 ecoboost in a mustang
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and they would never do that, same reason the last gen focus ST didn't come to the US... it would out perform the the V8
 
exdeath said:
Lighter compared to what? It's already much much lighter than all of it's competition.

Not every car needs to be made out of carbon fiber and paper and be as fragile as a F1 car. Are we seriously expecting a production commuter car to be a bare bones 1800 lb paper mache supercar like an Aero or McLaren? Then the elitists would just complain how everything is "flimsy plastic" aka Corvette rear bumper cover.

Just buy a motorcycle and be done with it.
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Don't be so over dramatic. I said it needs to loose a few pounds. You don't need carbon fiber for that but you know that already. Ford knows they need to make the car more efficient. Lighter, smaller, faster and with boost.

That is coming. Deal with it.
 
exdeath said:
According to Throck it's the best handling Mustang ever built because double wishbone front end.🙄
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I helped someone drop a Mustang II front end in a 65. Totally not worth it.

For the same price, we could have just dropped in a Global West suspension in there that rode smoother and handled oodles better.
 
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