Mr. D

Classy response my friend!

Owning these cars is about enjoying yourself and I appreciate anyone's choices even if I sometimes can't understand them! The one that drives me crazy is when two cars are completely indistinguishable from each other and one is worth 85K and the other 285K because it has the original bill of sale with it! I don't criticize in any way that choice. It just seems to miss the point that is about the car, not the documentation. I'd rather have 3 perfect clones than one with a pedigree, .... or one clone I can afford to drive without fear of hurting its value. I'm just a car guy, not a pedigree guy, especially since like fine art even experts can be fooled! With early Corvettes and Chevys you just have to know more than the guy judging it! With the stock wheels the Corvette below fooled a lot of NCRS experts, but I would not sell it as an original as that is fraud and theft! It's just if you are creating a clone, why not do it completely right down to the last detail.

Example: On a "NON" C1 Fuel Injected Corvette there is a blocking plate that covers where an air intake hose goes on the F.I car. When you remove it to make it into a F.I Corvette it will leave a thread in where the screws held it on! That is almost always forgotten and will give away a cloned F.I. car! There are a lot more original cars out there than were ever made! LOL!

mustangergt

The only thing that I am torn over on the new Mustang coming is which one to buy or want to buy. Loaded to the max GT or Shelby GT 350.
Budget is 45k to maybe 54k....of course I would rather go the least possible but want something that will make take my breathe away every time I look at it and drive it.

AK_Kayaker

Wow that's the same ramble I've read before, but what does it have to do with, "what do we think of the new 2015 Mustang looks."
Just wondering, are there maybe some meds you are not taking lately, or maybe see your PHP, for new ones you should be on.

pascal

I was kidding Jim, we're getting a Fusion but I'll post pics in OT.
Don't wanna ruin this thread.

DillonInCO

Saw one of the "prototypes" in person this weekend. LOVE it. I will concede that it doesn't look so much like what I'd expect a Mustang to look like, but that wouldn't stop me from buying one. The car is different, yes, but it's damn good looking. If I had the money, I'd buy one on day one...but I don't, so maybe in a couple years.

Of course we weren't allowed to sit in it, but the biggest thing that stood out to me is the quality of the interior. This one had a 3-tone tan, black and silver interior that's the classiest thing I've seen in a Ford in a long time. I also sat in both the new Camaro and Challenger, and I'm betting that for the Big 3, this car will be the car to beat.

Mr. D

Hope they make the new Mustang in sky blue! The color fits many people's personalities!

pascal

That shot here, is pure sex IMO... The wheels, roofline blending in the trunk with the tilted tail lamp flows real good.
I just don't know what to make of the front end yet, looks too busy so far but again, seeing it in person might change that and aftermarket bumpers or the GT500 treatment could be just what's needed...

The most radical change in body style for me was from 93 to 94.
When they came out with the 94 with its butt ugly tail lights (to me anyway) I was scratching my head. Lol.
Same platform from 79 to 93 rendered people to want a new fresh look after that and Ford sure delivered with the SN95.

nathansmith50

which is still on the same fox platform right up through 2004.

needmorespeed

Same platform yeah, but heavily modified.

Now onto the thread. I was at the Denver Auto Show that DillonInCO shows in the pics. I like the front end. A little busy, yeah maybe. A high nose, yeah not a huge fan but it's okay. I thought the tail lights and rear bumper were terrible in the pictures posted online. In person I feel it is much better. I see some Aston Martin (those cars are just pure sex btw) in the side profile. And I am a big fan of that. I think they should have tapered the nose a bit and truncated the rear bumper a bit more. Overall I like it alot. I just want to see if a GT350 will be revealed this week at the New York Auto Show. Come on flat plane V-8.

Now to fuel the retro fire. Personally, I hate retro. Can't stand it. Kill it with fire. The S197 did nothing for me and the '10 update wasn't much better. Retro is a dead end from a design stand point. I want a car that looks new and fresh and not a rehash of a 50 year old design. Classics have there place, and maybe I don't get it because I wasn't there for the "golden" days of the muscle car. To me right now is the golden days of horsepower. 662hp from the factory is nuts............Okay a little off topic.

Yeah, I'm getting one. Now which color?

Mr. D

The 2015 Mustang is not a bad looking car! It is just becoming slowly more run of the mill in styling with homogenized to look like the rest of the Ford line and new cars in general. I think the Mustang should stand out or it will go the way of other cars that once had a strong, personality in styling! I don't want the Mustang to go the way of other cars we have loved like the Thunderbird plus a long list of Chevy models that are now ugly little cars with a name that was on a cool car decades ago! The issue isn't going retro, it is retaining a strong, separate personality that makes us smile when we see a Mustang go by because it is immediately recognizable as a very, cool car rather than saying, "Was that a Mustang or that other car Ford makes that looks a lot the same?"