Csrt4to5.0gt

The dealer that tried to make me over pay had 10 new mustangs on their lot. That was about a month ago. I went on their website, they STILL have 10 mustangs yet, all discounted a whopping $500 lol. The place I bought mine had 4, including mine. They are all sold, and that was since last Tuesday. Nobody wants to buy a mustang in the winter. The more successful dealers don't need to mark up their vehicles.

Csrt4to5.0gt

Then that's a dealership you don't need to be associating with! Even though the new mustang is amazing...it's still a mustang. Wait til they've been out longer than a month or two, when they become a "dime a dozen" again, that dealer is going to regret treating customers like that. Just go somewhere else. I had no problem driving the two different '15s I looked at, even though the one wanted a lot more than sticker.

heslekrants

My wife & I went on a Ford dealership marathon the other day, went to 5 of them. Plenty of Mustangs to choose from & no issues being able to drive them. The Mustang I plan on driving today is parked in their showroom and they were going to pull it out for me the other day even though it was raining. I told them no & that I would come back when it wasn't raining.

I've seen ads for $2,000 off MSRP on the 2015 Mustang. I should find out today what the X-plan price is for the $45,000 MSRP yellow 2015 GT Premium 50th auto that my wife wants.

audioAl

Port Lavaca Ford dealer will let some people drive the new 2015, but if it's a stick and you don't know how to drive one, they are wary. I talked to my salesperson yesterday & he said he'd sold three and one guy is coming from Corpus Christi to trade in two DIB's 14's for 2 15's.

JIM5.0

Good points; I too am holding off buying an S550 for similar reasons.
The ride and handling are an improvement as numerous magazines have discovered from first hand testing.

But for me, I too will wait for the prices to come down. I have not see many mark-ups, but the dealers are not willing to drop the price during negotiations.
Also, despite the S550 platform being a better ride and handling improvement, it is still a new platform for Mustang use.
I have faith in the Coyote engine and the MT82 which have both been in Mustang production for 5 years and thus improved during that time, but I want to see more people going out and putting their S550 Mustangs to their paces and see if common problems arise amongst everyone's experiences.

Hopefully, the findings will be that the S550 is just too solid to destroy.

heslekrants

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I finally drove a 2015 GT Premium auto today with thoughts of bringing it home. It was a yellow 50th trim. MSRP $45,000. Asked for X plan discount but the dealer said the 2015 is too new to give x plan pricing.

1st impression - the seats are awesome & visibility is a little better than my 2013 GT.

The brakes are awesome, the turning radius felt like I was driving a big truck, I wasn't overly impressed with the handling & I had some curvy back roads to really test it out, the 2015 is slower than my 2013 GT but the biggest thing I felt was how heavy the 2015 GT drives. My 2010 Challenger SRT8, 2012 Camaro SS/RS & my 2014 SS Sedan all feel & drive like much lighter cars than the 2015 Mustang GT. I left feeling a little bummed because I really thought I was going to bring that shiny yellow 2015 home.

Mr. D

After driving the 2015 GT I'm rethinking whether or not to put a Roush Supercharger on one when I buy it especially since I'm going with an automatic this time around. The 2015 5.0L runs pretty nice stock! My supercharged 4.6L (above) was running 460 HP, but I suspect after the all the tuners & CAI's are out for the 2015 they will be running about that HP with a lot more usable torque. I might just put a tuner & CAI on it & leave it right there. Of course it will be a lot less HP than a supercharged 5.0L, but the stock 5.0L is really all the power you can actually use 95% of the time. It also looks like it will be a while before Roush OK's a supercharger for a 2015 5.0L "Automatic".... if it ever does!

So why an automatic this time around? I want to use it more for trips & in city traffic, & an automatic is more relaxing in heavy traffic driving. My wife can drive a stick shift with a heavy foot, but she'll use it more with an automatic. With myself at 72 & her at 71 we'll likely use it more with an automatic. In reality I suspect I could do faster times (0 to 80) with an automatic, & surprisingly the paddle shifters are pretty good if you want to run around the curves & backshift (if you can find a place safe to do so since they won't close off mountains roads for me they way they do for TV car shows, & I just as soon not kill somebody...including myself!). Oh decisions, decisions!!! Smile

pascal

Well, they didn't shave any weight off with this new platform so you're impressions aren't surprising to me.

As for bringing one home, wait till next year and see how reliable that IRS is.
Maybe the SGT 350 or a Boss, will be the catch for guys that like cornering...

Genxer

Double post.

Genxer

I've seen a few dealers selling base GTs at a tick over $32k. Very few under $32k. Most are more than that but I filter them out of search results. Someday they too will come back to Earth. The fact that the Mustang had the best sales month since '06 doesn't help but this too will pass.

My local dealer had 12 on the lot when I checked a week ago. Most were Ecoboost and V6 models. Maybe 3 were GTs. Looks like Ford is jumping in with both feet for the 4 cyl model.