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JANUARY 13 - 19
| 2017
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MR MUSCLE: New Mustang looks exactly the way it should - an excellent blast from the past.
Mighty Mustang sounds great, goes hard
UNTIL now Aussies have had to bring in secondhand Mustangs from the US of A, or perhaps some other intermediate country. While there were some imports by Ford Australia back in the mid 60s then again in 2001, these were overpriced and the local conversion to right-hand driver should have been visually better, though PHFKDQLFDOO\ WKH\ ZHUH ² QH 7KH )RUG 0XVWDQJ ² QDOO\ UHDFKHG Australia in full factory format in 2015 and has been a huge sales success. Order one now and your chances of getting it this year are slim. We couldn’t believe our luck when we scored a road test of a Mustang V8 GT for the two-week Christmas/New Year period.
By EWAN KENNEDY Normally we only get cars for one week, so this was a real bonus. Even better it was coloured in a brilliant red. (Thanks also to whoever crashed the one we should have been road testing for a single week a few months back‌) Mustang comes as a coupe (called Fastback by Ford) and convertible, ours had the hardtop, maybe we can score an open-top one next time. Ideally in winter when the weather is more suited to topdown motoring in our home area on the Gold Coast. Prices start at a ridiculously low $45,990 for the Mustang EcoBoost coupe with a
manual gearbox. Ours was an auto V8, at just $59,990. Long bonnet, short tail, styling geniuses at Ford came up with this stunning theme way back in 1964. There were some shockers in the 1970s and ‘80s before a return to normality in the mid ‘90s. The current model, released in 2014, takes us right back to the styling genius stage. Inside there’s a neat and simple design for instruments and controls that works beautifully. Mustang is powered by either a 5.0-litre, twin-cam, four-valve V8 or a 2.3-litre EcoBoost engine. The V8 has had many upgrades in recent years, with lessons learnt in developing the special-edition
2012 Mustang Boss 302. These let it breathe better, especially at higher revs. The result is power of 306 kW and 530 Nm of torque. The 2.3-litre EcoBoost turbo-petrol engine reaches 233 kW and 432 Nm and isn’t to be sneezed at. So far we’ve only tested it at the Ford Proving Ground and it’s both quick and nimble. A six-speed manual gearbox or a sixspeed automatic with paddle shifters FDQ EH VSHFL² HG 2XUV KDG WKH DXWR WR be honest this is probably the pick of the pair for real-life driving. Though we can understand the purists who prefer a do-ityourself gearbox.
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