The PP2 is such an amazing car for the money. I've been fortunate enough to spin a few laps around Gingerman in one. Other than tires/brakes/fluids I wouldn't change anything for a weekend track warrior.
IMO, they have been good since the Coyote engine started in 2011. Even the live rear axle was not a showstopper. It made it kind of fun, since street driving is mostly point and shoot anyway. And, the present iteration has made an impression both domestically and internationally. Before that, aside from a high school crush, a mustang was not on my radar. I had and continue to have zero interest in the 4.6.
I'm sure the negotiations broke down after he told them they couldn't give him enough money to drive that pile off.
I swear I dont look for this stuff...on top of my Yahoo feed. 1 more reason not be a mustang owner so you arent associated with morons like this guy, and the leaving the car show lets loose control and crash into a crowd drivers. https://autos.yahoo.com/watch-50-ton-rotator-truck-171200326.html
Mustang's crashing at Cars and Coffee has become so prevalent that Doug Demuro wrote an article and filmed a video about how to leave the events without crashing https://jalopnik.com/dear-mustang-owners-here-is-how-to-leave-cars-and-coff-1782425960
Funny all the negative thoughts on Mustangs....I guess I'm oblivious? I always like how mustangs sounded, and until the C7 and C8, my negative thoughts on American cars were reserved to the Corvette crew. Gold Chain OLD guys unite!!!!!
Oh I didn't post that because I don't like them. Far from it, I think they are awesome. It's just every time a car goes spinning into a crowd leaving a Cars and Coffee meet, it's a Mustang The videos and memes are all over the web.
My first non pos was an 82 GT 5.0 4 speed, black on black hatchback w/louvers. I was in high school working 2 jobs. Brought the salesman to my house and woke up my pops after he had just gotten home from 3rd shift at Goodyear. He co-signed in his boxers with 1 eye. I had made the payments on a KXT 250 Tecate so I guess I proved Myself. Took him for a ride the following day and he encouraged me to get on it (he was a gear head until the day he died). I got it sideways and he had the biggest smile on his face for a minute then the biggest worry on his face after that. He f'n knew. That car spent more time sideways than it did going straight. Mustangs will always have a special place in My heart. I'm gonna get one of those LFP's soon.
I felt like a pimp driving my buddies 89 GT Convertible. Nothing like it available in Ireland before I left. Sounded awesome.
Stigma lol It's funny when I was younger and buying Porsche/BMW I was a yuppie wannabe. Now that I'm older and love the 18+ for what it is I'm that "Mustang" guy. Could be I just love fun cars regardless of brands and labels. I've never been a Vette fan but a C8 is cool also.
Things make 400whp bone stock. Power a foxbody needed a supercharger or a 351w swap to make. Now a kid can buy a 2011+ coyote car for 15k and have 400whp on tap....no shit they're being crashed....RWD cars are much more rare now-a-days. Back in the day, everyone grew up driving shitty rwd based cars that wanted to kill. I know my foxbodies did....i learned to drive on RWD cars...to me, steering corrections for oversteer come subconciously... for a new driver who learned to drive on his parents 200hp Camry, then goes and buys a RWD car with 400whp, they dont have a clue how to correct. You see it all the time, car starts to slide sideways and there's zero steering input to correct, then, the ultimate no no in fishtailing, they let go of the gas, maybe even hit the brakes, tires momentarily grab traction, then the weight shifts forward, offloading the rear suspension and say hi to snap oversteer and unrecoverable skid...
The new cars do have traction control though,and skid control. Now if they turn it off then exactly what you said would happen happens..
Even then, some stuff doesn't completely off unless you know the (easy google search) sequence. There's normal, sport mode, race mode, rain mode, drag mode; traction control off, advancetrac off, etc... To me, in-between can be even more confusing than all the way on or all the way off. The wheels will spin, but the car won't respond like you'd expect. Then you give it more to make it pivot, and again, and again. When it finally does, it's too far... The nannies give a pretty short leash. Even sport and track modes aren't super free. All the way off drives like, well, a 400 or 500hp car...
Chick car... Sue me. That's the first thing I think ok f whenever I see one. Especially anything after early 70's. And before you call mr an old turd, I'm only 34. So that's young turd to you
So ripped up and down the strip 5 full runs. I didn’t launch the car as I want to be invited back to use it. I can say I was actually quite impressed with it. Super stable, felt pretty tight and didn’t wallow or so anything stupid. Brakes are very good as I did a couple hard stops as he told me to as he thinks it’s brakes way better than his jag svr.
