I have faith that the new 2010 Stang will be fine competing with the new Camaro. to be honest, if this Camaro is supossed to have 400 hp etc. I wondering what its price point will be, if its in the low 40's, i think even the stang now will outsell it by quite a bit.
The stang does not have to be faster than the camaro stock to outsell. thats been proven many times over. Thats not to say at least 350 hp out of the 2010 stang to be in the same ballpark wouldnt be prudent. I'm sure Ford will figure it out. They've had too much success and good press with the current stang to piss it all away at this point.
hope I'm not wrong
I think they'll easily meet the price point on the Camaro even with 400 hp. Look at the Pontiac G8 coming up in January. That has 361 hp and it costs about $29k, I think. GM should be able to squeeze 39 hp from somewhere...
Ford is going to need a fresh design on the outside and more power to compete with the Camaro. Personally, I think the Italian design that was in all the magazines not to long ago would work with some changes.
I was riding with my brother yesterday to grandma's house and I was surprised how common the Mustang is on the road nowadays. I'm getting a new hood in a couple of months just to set myself apart from the herd of Mustangs around here.
As nice as I think the S197 looks, I'll be first to acknowledge that a performance car can't get stale and still compete. You can let styling go a little longer in a car that only sells 40k units a year like a Corvette, but when you're selling a 160k vehicles a year then the shelf life is much shorter. If the 2010 refresh is as minor (new bumpers and hood) as the photo posted in this link, then I'll be pretty disappointed.
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so is it 2009 or 2010? Seems like Ford is going to make a change up for th 09' will they turn right around and make the 10' completely different or are they the same?
That's a photoshop job guys.....not the 2010. I've seen the 2010 and believe me, everyone will like the changes.
So without revealing anything "secret," can you give us a subjective opinion? Will it blow us away, or just be a mid redesign? Are you confident it will meet and/or surpass people's expectations, namely the hard-core crowd? Will it be "worth the wait?"
Somehow I don't see people liking a new Mustang design as much as they liked the S197. It has too much old school charm.
I agree to an extent, its a combination of things for me.
I was thinkin when they first came out with the new modles, Why not just make a limited number of classic clones from the 60's (with some cammer blocks ) instead of look-likes. You know they have time to engineer it.
Somehow I don't see people liking a new Mustang design as much as they liked the S197. It has too much old school charm.
They could change things they didn't get quite right in '05 and give it even more old school charm. A reworked rear flank that had some "shoulder" to it like a '67-'68 would be nice... And maybe a trunk lid with an integrated ducktail instead of a tacked on wing.
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ewwww....no bueno. the front end looks wierd. i think the design team should be able to come up with something better than that. unless we're forced to be like chevy and discontinue the mustang for a while just so we don't lose out in the sales.....
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I think ford should worry about what is under the hood as well.
To me, that just looks like a debadged KR. Maybe with a few trim changes.
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Every mustang website now has pictures of the 2010 mustang mule (heavily cladded). The taillights (the large alternating red and white lights) look too hideous to put on a Mustang. Ford should keep the backup lights out of the taillight assembly and keep a simple vertical tribar red configuration. Or if Ford wants to separate the reds, then separate them with chrome like the 1970 Mustang. The nose of 2010 does looks similar to Shelby gt500 but not the same.
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) instead of look-likes. You know they have time to engineer it.
