Originally Posted by Supernaut

I thought long and hard about this, reading everything I could and watching all the YouTube vids. I was Boss obsessed. But then i realized that the Boss motor is designed to rev high. The cam and intake are calibrated to make power at high RPMs, so my conclusion is that the car won't be happy puttering around town. I exist in a largely urban enenvironment, with short highway trips around the city and 20-45 minute runs to different towns for work. For the highway trips, it's possible to open it up, but I've suffered this frustration before.

I have a '87 notch with 410 gears and a big cam 302. The car loves to rip to the redline, and I find it very frustrating to drive. It wants to stretch it's legs and scream. The car isn't happy puttering around at 1000-3000 rpm. At 3000 it's just waking up and chomping at the bit. It's a lot of fun to wind it out, but most people on the road are sleeping at the wheel, and my notch is just too much car for traffic.

So I reluctantly came to the conclusion that a Boss won't make for a good daily driver. I'm getting a GT, which has long runners and cammed for low RPM torque and lower operating speed, where it will spend most of it's daily driven life.

Originally Posted by 2008GT/CSBuckeye

The more and more I look at the boss the more I want to know what I could possible get out of my car on a trade in, I still owe 13k and the car has 26k miles on it but it's in damn near perfect shape other than that but I know the stealerships are not high on aftermarket parts, stripes, and other things. Shane if you don't mind me asking after all the paper work was booked what did that car roll of the lot for?

Originally Posted by Thrashard340

Just going off bluebook trade in it would be around $22k. Minus $13k your about $9k above water. However, I haven't taken your mods into account. Suspension and exhaust parts do not add value...at least in the dealers' eyes. The blower is different. That would be considered a major upgrade. Assuming that kit and labor total up to a $7k investment, the dealer may value about half that. So add about $3.5k since your car is still relatively low mileage. You're going to get a ton of different answers on this and this is really a "best guess" from my days working at a dealership. Again, this varies from dealer to dealer.

Now by using a generic car payment calculator online and assuming you use the base MSRP for the Boss at $40,145 (this is optimistic since most dealers will apply markup for such a brand new performance model), assuming 3.99 (does not qualify for any special ford promos and that rate is for US Bank for a tier one credit score), + 6.5% sales tax in IL (?), $12,500 trade in figure your payment figures to be around $557/mo over 60 months.