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The account was leaked on Facebook and Twitter over a anniversary ago, but now it’s official. Ford has accepted that the 2011 Mustang GT will arise with a 5.0-liter V8 engine that pumps out 412 application and 390 pound-feet of torque. So if you’re cerebration about affairs a new Mustang GT, you may wish to skip the 2010 model.
The 2011 model’s 5.0-liter engine will alter the 2010 GT’s 4.6-liter V8, which makes 315 application and earns 23 mpg. The new engine is accepted to net 25 afar per gallon with an automated transmission. It harkens aback to the 5.0-liter engine acclimated in the 1990 archetypal Mustang, which is acceptable account for pony car aficionados.
Jalopnik explains: “The 5.0-liter, or 302 as it was accepted in the pre-liter era, has become assuredly angry to the Mustang, if the 4.6-liter was alien the Stang-faithful accepted the added achievement but moaned over the accident of their advantaged displacement.”
With 412 ponies beneath the hood, the 2011 Mustang GT competes with the 425-horsepower Camaro SS and 425-horsepower Challenger SRT8 and Charger SRT8. Though these rivals exhausted the Mustang on paper, real-world testing may aftermath altered results.
Autoblog speculates: “No chat on achievement figures, but apprehend a mid-four additional 0-60 dart and a quarter-mile in the top 12s. At least. Especially as the accepted Mustang GT (315-hp, 320 lb-ft of torque) hits 60 mph in 4.9 abnormal and runs the division in 13.5. Oh, according to Ford, the new 5.0 weighs just ten pounds added than the approachable GT.”
Car and Driver is aswell hopeful that the changes will accomplish the Mustang a accurate competitor: “With its analogously baby 4.6-liter V-8 beneath the hood, the Mustang has had a lot to overcome. … Well, arise abatement of 2010, the Mustang GT stands to put even added ambit amid it and its rivals with a thoroughly avant-garde comminute of its own…”
In accession to the new engine, the 2011 Mustang offers new six-speed automated and chiral transmissions (replacing the accepted five-speed), an alternative Brembo braking package, and ammunition economy-boosting electrical abetment steering.
“This is not consistently a acceptable swap, even if it seems added assured as manufacturers attack to clasp added fuel-efficiency from every package,” writes Edmunds Inside Line of the council change. “And we adulation the way the 2010 Mustang steers. We achievement the claiming of affair the accepted set by the accepted car will accomplish the new arrangement better.”
The 5.0-liter GT makes its aboriginal accessible actualization at next January’s North American Auto Appearance in Detroit. Until then, analysis out how the accepted Mustang endless up in our rankings. Aswell yield a attending at the U.S. Account rankings of this year’s best cars and this month’s best car deals.
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