The 2001 Mustang Bullitt Edition may look familiar to movie fans and that’s because it harkens back to the 1968 390 fastback Mustang that Steve McQueen drove in the movie Bullitt. The 2001 Mustang Bullitt is based on a Mustang GT but added some special bits to make it drive and perform better including high-flow [...]
The Pagani Zonda is a beautiful car with a stunning price tag but this papercraft version is one anyone can afford. Papercraft is unique for designers in that it gives them the opportunity to create detailed, incredibly accurate representations of real-world objects at a minimal cost. Traditionally, when you think of model-making it conjures images [...]
NAIAS 2013: It is apparent that AMG Engineers cannot be left to their own devices. They turned their voracious appetites on the all-new CLA and turned it into an all-wheel drive rocket: the all-new CLA45 AMG. A hand-built turbocharged four-cylinder produces 355-horsepower and 332 lbs-feet of torque, the CLA45 is good for a 4.5-second 0-60 [...]
The BBC car series Top Gear is rolling on for 2013 with another Top Gear Epic race across Europe in the BBC Top Gear Season 19 Episode 3 below. In this newest episode Jeremy Clarkson races Richard and James from London to Milan in a Shelby Mustang GT500. Of course both Richard and James are [...]
Ford Mustang GT Raw & Unedited Engine Note & Acceleration test. This is the raw video from our Real World Mile High Testing of the Ford Mustang GT. No music & very little commentary. Just the raw and unedited video from the TFLcar drive and test. If you are passionate about cars and if you [...]
The 2013 Ford Mustang GT 5.0 is one of America’s greatest and perhaps most enduring muscle cars. Ford will say that the Mustang is America’s very first muscle car and they might be right. F or 2013 Ford has opted the horsepower of the Mustang GT 5.0 to 420 HP making it one of the [...]
What’s the fastest Mustang you can buy from 0-60 MPH @ 1 mile above sea level. Is it the 2013 V8 Ford Mustang GT or the V6 Mustang? The answer of course is the Mustang GT 5.0 as it has 100 more horsepower. But you already knew that. What we wanted to find out is [...]
The 2013 V6 Ford Mustang is rated by the factory at producing 305 Hp and Torque: 280 ft-lbs. @ 4250 rpm from its 3.7 Liter engine. At Sea Level it will accelerate from 0-60 MPH in about 5.5 seconds. But when we tested the car at about one mile above sea level in Denver we [...]
The 2013 V6 Ford Mustang and the 2013 Scion FR-S don’t compete directly. The Mustang has 2 more cylinders, 105 more horses and weights about 700 more pounds. However, in two important ways they compete: 1) Price and 2) the Fun to drive factor. In fact, we would not be surprised if drivers crossed shopped [...]
The 2013 Ford Mustang isn’t all new but it is substantially tweaked with significant styling improvements. First and foremost the new 2013 Mustang gets a nose job with a much more more-prominent grille, new rocker panels and the revised signature sequential tail lamps get LED light “ropes,” that now surround them. Viewed from the back [...]
CHICAGO — The 2013 Ford Shelby GT500 convertible has a supercharged 5.8-liter V8 that makes 650 horsepower. The monster convertible 2013 Ford Shelby GT500 celebrates the 20th anniversary of Ford’s Special Vehicle Team. Ford engineers built the convertible GT500 to be just as sporty as the hardtop. With an astonishing 650 hp, not only is [...]
Read this very carefully: the 2013 Ford Mustang GT500 will have a 650 horsepower (yes – six hundred and fifty friggin’ horsepower) pumped through a supercharged, 5.8 liter V8. It will make 600 lbs-feet of torque and (please sit for this part… it will have a top speed of at least 200 miles per hour! No, [...]
The 2012 Ford Mustang Boss 302 is a 444 horsepower that makes 380 lbs-feet of torque and can spin up to 7,500 rpm. The additional horsepower over the GT is due, in part, to the forged pistons, connecting rods, short-runner intake manifold, better cams and ported cylinder heads (CNC) among other tweaks. It loses some [...]
Ford has definitely gotten under Chevrolet’s skin. The Chevy folks are sick and tired of magazine aficionados lambasting the Camaro just because of the stellar reviews for the new Mustangs. Yup, for every Camaro out there (and to a lesser extent – Dodge Challengers) Ford has a superior pony. Fortunately for Chevy – the Camaro’s [...]
