New 2015 mustang looks like a aston martin wannabe

[olds442]

Seems like ford is going to kill the mustang once in for all. Not only does it look like a aston martin now but you can get it with a 4 cylinder turbo charged engine as a option.

RIP in mustang, RIP.




Ill be sticking to




Discuss

[GScholz]

How can "it looks like an Aston Martin" be construed as a bad thing? 

[68ZooM]

kind of finding the grill design to be close to the same of the Ford focus, as far as the 4 cylinder turbo being a joke dont count it out as a POS yet. my son has a Scion with a turbocharged four-cylinder that thing is scary fast all he did was just do a little programming change in the chip.

[skorpx1]

That turbo'd 4 banger is producing more horsepower than the earlier V6 Camaros and Mustangs. 4 banger tech is getting better and better.


Not to mention Ford and Aston Martin teamed up for the design of some cars, and Aston Martin was also a subsidiary of Ford.. Do a bit of research and you wont look like a fool when you say "Mustang looks like a Aston Martin wannabe" because it really isn't.




If you want a real knock-off car look at the JDM cars and then look at European cars. Some of them are strangely familiar in appearances.

[Reaper90]

One of the best looking mustangs, well, ever.

<--- not a Ford guy either.

[Triton28]

Don't get all upset about the motor option.  Ford did this in '79 and '80 too.  History repeating itself maybe. 

[Rich46yo]

I'd have done a different headlight but otherwise a fine looking automobile.

[Saxman]

I'm not a particular fan of the look. For one the front end, particularly the lights, is starting to look like pretty much everything else on the road, with only the grill setting it apart. My biggest complaint with the current gen is that they tend to look bulkier than they really are, especially the back end. The low roof here seems to exacerbate it.

[GScholz]

Pedestrian protection... Expect all cars in the future to have tall fronts and lots of headroom under the hood (crumple zone for the pedestrian). Government regulation and guidelines are more and more determining how cars look.

[caldera]

Blech.  What's wrong with keeping the old (good) style and tweaking it from time to time?  Seems to work just fine for the 911.  Ford should try an updated 67 Mustang look, similar to the way the Challenger was done.  Nothing wrong with 4 cylinder turbos (it will make almost double the HP that my 1983 Mustang GT 5.0 made from the factory) but they have no business in a Mustang.  The V-8 is part of it's personality.  If you want a fast turbo motor, buy an STI. 

[TheCrazyOrange]

It looks so bland. Chevrolet definitely wins in the looks department. Now if only they could lighten the Camaro up a bit.

[Xavier]

Lexus called, they want their headlights back! 

[skorpx1]

Nothing wrong with 4 cylinder turbos (it will make almost double the HP that my 1983 Mustang GT 5.0 made from the factory) but they have no business in a Mustang.  The V-8 is part of it's personality.  If you want a fast turbo motor, buy an STI. 

If you ask me, doing the 4 banger with turbos was the right thing to do. You can fine tune it even further and squeeze more power out of it and do it for a cheaper price than just buying a V6 or a V8.

It looks so bland. Chevrolet definitely wins in the looks department. Now if only they could lighten the Camaro up a bit.

Chevrolet lightened up their 2014 Camaro Z/28 Nurburgring car in order to beat the 2014 Shelby GT500, but they took out stereos, A/C, power windows, ect... and still only beat the Mustang by 2 seconds. Its going to take a bit of craftiness to get the Camaro as light and as powerful as the Mustangs. Both have the potential to be stupidly fast cars but they'll need some work.


Koenigsegg also has that 5.0L V8 they use in their Agera that does 280 something on the runway, and its a production car. If only Ford could figure out how to do that with their 5.0's.

[TheCrazyOrange]

Even if Ford were to push 960hp from their 5.0, it still wouldn't hit even 250. Just too heavy and dragy compared to the Agera-R.

[skorpx1]

Even if Ford were to push 960hp from their 5.0, it still wouldn't hit even 250. Just too heavy and dragy compared to the Agera-R.

If it had even 800WHP i'm sure it'd break at least 220 considering the weight and size of the car.