callmecobra

they will never make mustang fwd....making it awd would be genius...no more "i didnt get traction off the line" bull****

cldnails

Of course it's easy to say that they will never make a Mustang Front Wheel Drive...but...

You may remember a Front Wheel drive hatch back that Ford released in the mid 90's...The Probe...this little bugger was suppose to replace Mustang!

Thank God it failed, but, nevertheless Ford tried to make the Mustang front wheel drive. Mess with the body all they want and tweak the suspension, but leave the front engine rear wheel drive alone...please...to whom it may concern.

LLADNAR

sounds like that salesman was smokin crack,, i work at a Ford dealer and we have heard nothing of this,,and the people that teach new model training actually know because they actually get the info from the engineers. if the lincoln ls shows up with AWD then it si likely the stang could too,,but as far as the ditchin the body after 2 years that is crap too. why spend 25 years on the same platform to change 2 years after you get a new one.

VertStangGT86

Don't know about anyone else but I was just talking hypothetically, just saying it would be kinda cool to have one just for the traction and stuff. We def need to preserve the RWD V8's as they seem to keep dissapearing. Even if they tried to replace the stang with the probe that's not the same as making a FWD stang, I just can't see that happening, and if they did it wouldn't have a V8.

nhdungeonracer

What they tried to do was to convert the Mustang over to FWD, as that's what all the manufacturers were turning to at the time.
They were going to make the FWD version and still call it a Mustang, but with the letters letters from Mustang fans, Ford decided to rename the FWD "Mustang" to Probe so that they wouldn't waste all the time and money they put into it.
It's a good thing too they listened, because the Mustang really out-sold the Probe. Just goes to show what the performance crowd really wants. I'll bet the big wigs at Ford were glad they listened to the Mustang crowd.

BTW-I still cry whenever I think of how they replaced the Pinto with Escorts [] A Pinto was my 1st car

yellow6

hey guys, new to the site here. just got a stang a few months ago. v6 though, due to insurance. but anyways i was looking up what the probes looked like up in ebay..... and well did this guy waste his $$ or what? what an idiot, and the bigger idiot who buys it.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...474192051&rd=1

mr.marion

Hey, do any of you guys drive any SVOs or Turbo cpupe Thunderbirds? I just got ahold of a 93' LX convertible and I'm trying to decide whether to go with the V8 or to go with an SVO/Turbo coupe setup. I could really care less how loud my car is. I am thinking about practicality and everyday drivability. However, if I can't find any parts for a turbo four stang, then I'm gonna have to go with a V8. If any of you guys happen to know any good places in TX to get SVO components, then please let me know.

VertStangGT86

For practicality a turbo four will probably be better off and from what I've heard you can pick up turbo coupes cheap.

Guest

The USDM Focus is only FWD...unless you take into account those few project Focus' thats been converted to RWD with an 03 cobra motor wedged into it.

The Focus Rally car is AWD, but again USDM Focus' are only FWD.

Guest

Yeah but the Escort was an infinitely better car. ran from 82ish to 2004...Ford finally killed off the ZX2 this year.