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“GT” fits this vehicle completely.
Whilst we have nothing at all but praise and admiration for Ford’s decision to spread stick shifts around the new Mustang lineup, the fact is that numerous of you will buy automatics just as your forebears did in the 1960s. Back then, slushboxes had been the gooey, horsepower-gobbling Neanderthal ancestors to today’s computer-linked, electrohydraulic torque-thrusters. The basics of clutched planetary gearsets remain unchanged, but today’s performance is totally various. Congratulations on surviving to the Age of Automatics We Can Reside With.
The new Mustang GT is a strong citizen of this era, partly because the 6-speed automatic transmission is so excellent as to be almost transparent, and partly since Ford has built a vehicle about the lazy-left-foot gearbox that is not attempting to be excessively sporty. The GT is strong and fast, to be confident, but a bit more mellow and refined in this, the new Mustang’s initial V-8 iteration. We already know of 3 more hot Mustangs coming, the Shelby GT350, GT350R, and, in all likelihood, a fresh GT500 these will grind the Mustang to a tougher edge, so this massive-hearted cruiser is for people who do not want their finger in the socket for each and every mile.
The 10Best-winning Mustang GT begins at $ 32,925 with a stick, and for the auto you should check an $ 1195 option box that also brings steering-wheel paddles and remote start off. Do that and you’re locked out of the GT Overall performance Pack, a $ 2495 slew of goodies that includes Brembo brakes, 19-inch rims wrapped in summer season tires, and a 3.73:1 Torsen restricted-slip differential. You can option 19s and a 3.55:1 rear end separately but not the complete shot. So Ford is not positioning the slusher for street racers who just don’t want to shift. It’s for individuals wanting V-8 power but a lot more luxury than go-fast gear. The automatic’s choice cost remains constant up via the GT’s Premium and 50th Anniversary trim levels. (The latter, sold-out limited edition was the only way to get the automatic with the Overall performance Pack.)
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A Very good Self-Shifter
Automatic gearboxes have “long been a millstone around our neck,” one former Ford engineer told us once, but the ghosts of fragile AODs and AXODs have largely been exorcised, especially as Ford has moved to the modern day rear-drive 6R unit based on the ubiquitous and sturdy ZF 6HP26. For the new Mustang, Ford says it redesigned and strengthened the case for enhanced driveline stiffness and decreased shift shock.
Whatever the company is doing, it is operating. Left alone in D, the transmission snaps new ratios into spot with a lubricated, seamless efficiency. Take manage with the paddles and the engine pleasingly matches revs on the downshift. Neither the roar nor the shove of the 4-cam, 435-hp V-8 appears dimmed by its marriage to a torque converter.
Even on the automatic’s loose set of Pirelli P Zero Nero all-season tires, the GT is able to get out of the hole as quick as the stick operating the optional summer time rubber. We saw 60 mph pass in 4.5 seconds and the quarter-mile in 13. seconds at 113 mph, identical to the manual’s times. Still, the low-grip rubber prevented recording something greater than a .83-g skidpad run, far much less than the .95 posted by the final stick-shift vehicle we tested on the summer time Pirelli P Zeros.
The Auto’s for Those on Auto
In comparison to, say, a Camaro SS 1LE, the simple Mustang GT is a floater. Ford has chosen a reasonably mushy suspension tune that makes the GT a serene choice for long highway trips but a slightly squishier steed on the twisty sections. At occasions, such as when crossing onto the varied surfaces of bridge overpasses at 70 mph, the nose develops a distinctly vintage circular bob as the circa-3800-pound vehicle does a slight shimmy and porpoise at the exact same time. Undulations can really perform over the base GT’s springs, while the all-season tires can ruin a very good switchback with some squealing understeer. But the bumps are likewise greater absorbed and the occupants stay largely isolated from the worst. As we mentioned, harder Mustangs are coming, as is a slew of aftermarket filling-looseners for these wanting to starch up the GT’s suspension. Or you could get a manual and order the Overall performance kit.
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Inside, the Mustang is the new kid on the pony-vehicle block and it shows, with the newest and greatest components and electronic frippery, such as blind-spot warning, parking sensors, and a cross-visitors alert that prevents you from backing out of the driveway into an oncoming petroleum tanker. Drop the further $ 4000 for a GT Premium and you are swaddled in soft-touch leather, aluminum trim, and chrome accents. Click the unlock button on the fob and tiny lamps hidden in the side-view mirrors project the galloping Mustang logo on the ground next to the auto, a excellent celebration trick.
The screen in the Mustang’s cluster can be configured to digitally render all types of fascinating gauges you didn’t know you required, such as twitching dial indicators for the air/fuel ratio, intake vacuum, and the inlet-air temperature. It’s with this screen and accompanying buttons that you engage the Track mode for the stability handle and the all-essential line-lock function, which at a standstill enables you to electronically lock just the front brakes and barbecue the rear tires for up to 15 seconds. A toggle in the center stack lets you dial up the steering effort from Comfort to Normal to Sport.
Greatness with Room Overhead
None of the foregoing is to say that the automatic-transmission Mustang GT is a negative handler it’s just set on the soft side on its base suspension, and it is a best pleasure to drive at 6-tenths provided its direct steering and reassuring brakes. Ford’s engineers certainly left overhead clearance in the suspension for the Efficiency pack and future models. That frees up the GT automatic to be what its name implies: a comfortable, each day-usable gran turismo.
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