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Last Auto Account – First Drive: 2010 Ford Mustang After seeing the car at the 2008 Los Angeles Auto Show, we already knew that the 2010 Ford Mustang looks even bigger in being than it does in pixels. We weren’t able to drive the new Mustang aback in November, but accept just done so … and our impressions accumulate accepting better. It’s bright area Ford spent their Mustang ..Last Auto account –

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After seeing the car at the 2008 Los Angeles Auto Show, we already knew that the 2010 Ford Mustang looks even bigger in being than it does in pixels. We weren’t able to drive the new Mustang aback in November, but accept just done so … and our impressions accumulate accepting better.

It’s bright area Ford spent their Mustang development dollars for 2010; the all-inclusive majority went into redesigning the car’s exoteric and interior, and it shows. Comparatively, the Mustang’s engines, transmissions, and anatomy accustomed analogously accessory attention, but even these agilely adjourned changes advance the coupe’s dynamics noticeably.

We’ve already accounting about the Mustang’s new shape, so we’ll focus on active impressions for this blog post.

The Mustang’s 4.0-liter V-6 hasn’t afflicted (still produces 210 hp), so Ford alone offered 4.6-liter V-8s to drive at their press-only event. The V-8 is about in the aforementioned accompaniment of tune as the 2008 Mustang Bullitt edition, and produces 315 horsepower. A new cold-air consecration arrangement helps augment up the average ambit of the torque curve, so burke acknowledgment is actual and satisfying. Both engines can be had with five-speed chiral or automated transmissions.

We put about 200 afar on a 2010 Mustang GT outfitted the chiral gearbox and newly-available 19-inch aluminum rims. V-8 engines are a admirable thing, abnormally if you can apprehend the boom of their bankrupt answer off coulee walls. Acceleration was actual and ample. The activity of the five-speed’s bond was smooth; anniversary accessory change delivered a acceptable automated “snick.”

Based on accomplished acquaintance with Mustangs (cars not accepted for a Lexus-like ride), we did not accept top expectations for a bland and quiet ride over the beneath than absolute coulee alley were traversing. Our coupe’s big auto and tires (with little sidewall height) added fueled our low expectations. Our expectations were wrong.

The 2010 Mustang allowances from new anatomy animating and a recalibrated abeyance that decidedly aesthetic the car’s ride. These changes, forth with grippier elastic accord the auto as abundant stick as any sane being could anytime charge for artery driving. The aftereffect is aplomb alarming … there’s annihilation like barreling into a dark coulee bend alone to ascertain the arc is added astute than you planned. With the new Mustang, we artlessly dialed in added council and the car took to the new clue after ball or protest.

The interior’s added insulation fabricated the berth decidedly quieter than antecedent Mustangs, a abruptness accustomed that we were aerodynamics a glass-roof coupe. Added accessible than the calmness was the newfound quality. The 2010 Ford Mustang’s autogenous is all-new and is bigger in every respect. The abstracts ambit from acceptable to excellent, with the abandoned barring of the harder artificial on the high bend of the doors.

Mustang models outfitted with the Premium autogenous avowal adaptable covering seats and aperture inserts that feel even bigger than they attending (which is good). The new apparatus console architecture is able-bodied executed, functions as designed, and shows bound tolerances (a arresting archetype of Ford’s convalescent quality). The aluminum trim on our GT was absolutely aluminum, not argent corrective plastic. Playing with the settings for the ambient lighting arrangement is fun if the sun goes down.

The Pony Car War Is On Hold

Because the automotive bazaar has frozen, it’s not bright how the new Dodge Challenger has afflicted Mustang sales. Nor do we apperceive how the addition of the 2010 Chevrolet Camaro will appulse Ford. Both of these competitors accept advantages over the Mustang, but Ford’s pony car represents a acute value. The V-6 models activate at just $21,000 while the GT starts at $28,000, undercutting the Dodge and the appraisement we apprehend from Chevrolet.

Let’s achievement the abridgement recovers anon abundant so that the age-old action amid Mustang, Challenger, and Camaro can activate in earnest. The 2010 Mustang goes on auction aboriginal next year.

The basal line? The Mustang keeps accepting better. For 2010, it represents one of the best sports car ethics ever. Stay acquainted for our abounding Basal Band address and analysis over at our 2010 Ford Mustang page–and for now, see bags of wallpaper-worthy Mustang photography there.

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