New Mustang=Probe 2.0?

[IncendiaryGunner]

Ok i'm on my phone so i only have a link but you cannot tell me this is only a pony car and not a muscle car.... 1969 429 Boss

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&gl=us&site=webhp&tbm=isch&source=hp&q=1969+429+boss+mustang&oq=1969+429+boss+mustang&gs_l=mobile-gws-hp.3...3606.13401.0.14049.23.6.0.17.17.0.143.790.0j6.6.0.les%3Behyp%2Ca%3D1%2Cb%3D1000%2Cn%3D5%2Ct%3D2..0.0...1ac.1.erdLlvuxLcY&biw=615&bih=369&sei=nrJRUL-2G8LorAGE54GwCg

Sure, a select few of the extremely rare variants I would consider muscle cars...

But 99%+ of Mustangs do not fall into that category.

They made the boss 429 because the Mustang could not compete in NASCAR. It was a limited production run, and I believe less than 900 were made. The only reason they made that many was because at least 500 had to be produced and sold to the public to qualify as a stock car.

They used the Mustang frame, built a NASCAR, and produced enough of them to meet racing qualifications. The Mustang body actually had to widened for the 429 boss to fit...

 

[Mr.JAG]

A great car. I think you will find that it had a better weight distribution. I loved my 5.0 when I had it but I would not have turned down an SVO had I found one when I bought my 87 5.0 many years ago.

Slightly better weight distribution, and it had 5-lug (as opposed to 4-lug) and all wheel disc brakes (as opposed to rear drums). Ford just priced them too high, and so the 5.0 outsold by a long shot.

 

[femurphy77]

Sure, a select few of the extremely rare variants I would consider muscle cars...

But 99%+ of Mustangs do not fall into that category.

They made the boss 429 because the Mustang could not compete in NASCAR. It was a limited production run, and I believe less than 900 were made. The only reason they made that many was because at least 500 had to be produced and sold to the public to qualify as a stock car.

They used the Mustang frame, built a NASCAR, and produced enough of them to meet racing qualifications. The Mustang body actually had to widened for the 429 boss to fit...

They didn't widen the body, just the engine bay.

 

[Denny347]

Slightly better weight distribution, and it had 5-lug (as opposed to 4-lug) and all wheel disc brakes (as opposed to rear drums). Ford just priced them too high, and so the 5.0 outsold by a long shot.

In 1987 my mom bought a new Mekur XR4Ti that had the same motor with a 5 speed manual. I had just gotten my license and man was that thing fast.

 

[CathyInBlue]

No matter how cross-eyed I look at a Ford Evos Concept, it'll never look like a Ford Mustang.

 

[Mr.JAG]

In 1987 my mom bought a new Mekur XR4Ti that had the same motor with a 5 speed manual. I had just gotten my license and man was that thing fast.

You don't even want to know the things I would do for a clean Merkur XR4Ti.

 

[CathyInBlue]

Really? Would you pay $3,600 plus shipping up from Cartersville, GA? Because there's a car show-ready black one on a certain Bay of E right now. Red one too, but red's not my color.

 

[Mr.JAG]

Really? Would you pay $3,600 plus shipping up from Cartersville, GA? Because there's a car show-ready black one on a certain Bay of E right now. Red one too, but red's not my color.

Road trip! Whatchu doin this Sunday?

But with any car this old, I absolutely have to see it person. "No Rust" a lot of times really means "No rust that you can see in the pictures"

 

[88GT]

Na, I was just referring to the people who dismiss Mustangs just because it's "not a v8". A lot of those people routinely get the butt handed to them by smaller displacement vehicles at the track. My point was that Ford has gone 4 banger turbo in the past - and it was awesome. So stick around and wait for the final product, because you might just fall in love.

Anybody who is "in to" Mustangs knows Ford made non-V8 models. That's not the issue.

 

[CathyInBlue]

Road trip! Whatchu doin this Sunday?

Continuing to break down my 88 Ford Escort for the scrap yard. Oh what I would have done to him if his rear shock towers hadn't been rusted out.

The red XR4Ti is in Ontario, but it's an automatic, and needs a lot of work to polish her up.

 

[Mr Evilwrench]

The name never meant that much except to the fanbois, really. Look at the Thunderchicken. It started out as a little two seater sports car, then bloated and metastasized into a giant sedan before they came back to their senses. I had an 84 fox T-bird I would've turned into a Mustang from the inside out like my 86 5/5 GT-in-LX-clothing (best car evar), but had to give up on it. Now I have a V6 94 as a second car, that does much more than I need it to.

 

[Mr.JAG]

Continuing to break down my 88 Ford Escort for the scrap yard. Oh what I would have done to him if his rear shock towers hadn't been rusted out.

The red XR4Ti is in Ontario, but it's an automatic, and needs a lot of work to polish her up.

I refuse to own anything with an AUTO.

That's ironic. My little brother does a lot of JY builds... this is one of many. A 94 Turbo Escort Wagon. Nearly every part sourced from the JY or made by him. It surprised a good amount of racers before eventually dropping its guts on the pavement.

 

[Stschil]

Thats NOT a european 4 cyl with a classic name. Thats a made in the USA everything, with "Cuda" on the side. I can't remember if that was a prototype or a one off by someone else, regardless the only version of that car that was sold in the US was originally an 024 Horizon, which the next year became the Charger.... and I know quite a few of them that will surprise you

anyway, that said, its not uncommon for car companies to use the same car in different countries with different names. So I guess they could go the other way and us the same name with different bodies.... if they don't, then this stinks like a Mustang II!

I should have said Euro styled.

Ever seen an Opel Monza?

 

[CathyInBlue]

My 88 was an American made Escort, before the Escort became a Mazda product. Nothing against Mazda products, though, I'm now wrenching on a 96 Probe GT.

 

[jtdet01]

Do not give it the Mustang name, re-use another old name

 

[femurphy77]

In 1987 my mom bought a new Mekur XR4Ti that had the same motor with a 5 speed manual. I had just gotten my license and man was that thing fast.

Xr4s are a ball! And it's amazing how much power can be wrung from those little bastards without much effort.

 

[chris46131]

Oh, Come on now!

Ford was putting em out like THIS for a while... proof it could ALWAYS be worse!

Ah yes, the polyester leisure suit of the mustang world.

 

[CathyInBlue]

As I said, "There were no Mustangs manufactured from 1974 to 2004." Now, it looks like I'll have to add "or after 2014".

 

[Bapak2ja]

As I said, "There were no Mustangs manufactured from 1974 to 2004." Now, it looks like I'll have to add "or after 2014".

I drive a 1997 Mustang. It is only a 3.8 6-cyl but it still holds up the reputation of the Mustang. It is every bit as good as was my first one, a 1965 with a 260cc V8 engine and 3-speed manual transmission. The 80s models were the leisure suit stuff.

 

[4sarge]

Dont forget the charger (shelby) that looked like that also.

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