2011 Mustang V6

Jez said:
Snap :) Glad you had a good time!

The car is quite poor, very low quality, typically american, why anybody would buy one over here is utterly beyond me when we have cheap cars from the likes of BMW and Mercedes. Even so, great rental. I'd get one again.

Looked cool in white, too;
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I bought one and loved my four years of ownership. :D

Fox mine had similar quality interior to my M3 CSL, which was quite a bit cut down from a normal M3 even though same plastics I suspect were used. But my Mustang after 4 years did not rattle and by the time I sold it I had put 55,000 miles on the clock.

Do remember though as good as the new 3.7l V6 is that its still no V8 and you got the AUTOFAIL version.

The V6 is like the old V8, Ford have made a platform for others to modify, I can see some rather sorted V6 cars coming based on the 2011.

The V8 however Ford offer it pretty good out the box, manual with 3.73 rear-end, Sports suspension, 19" wheels with summer tyres, Brembo package and that amazing V8. Ford pretty much offer on the V8 now what I spent so much time creating with my Saleen, except the new V8 is just so much better than the old engine, but for those who want too its still possible to improve the suspension and throw superchargers at the engine in the form of bolt-on kits that you can do yourself in your driveway.

Still for me I really can't see another car thats a similar age to the new Mustang that gives you a V8, great tunability, amazing looks and the ability to turn more heads than a Ferrari for less than 30k with an amazing V8 burble.
 
We are going to have to agree to disagree on interior quality Gibbo - the dashboard etc on a CSL is regular E46 just with bits missing and it was leagues ahead of this improved 2011 car.
 
Enjoyed reading that as I'm planning to do similar next summer.

Just out of interest, which Android app did you use to calculate your figures?
 
The colour. :eek: I agree about the interior we don't have leather seats in ours but they are seriously wearing out. Stitches coming out, fraying, etc it's actually getting to the point where I'm worried that the rental company are going to charge us. The car has only done 11k miles.

You're right the gearbox is crap. Even when I was using the 1,2,3 gears I couldn't get anywhere near the same performance as my S2K. Going up hill was horrendous if you were using cruise control the gearbox didn't know what to do.

Our car didn't get much attention as yours probably because yours was lady boy blue ours was silver. One thing I noticed there doesn't seem to be many people driving decent cars over here even in hollywood, etc. You go to London and there are decent cars everywhere. I've seen two s2ks and if I lived out here I wouldn't have one as the roads are so crap.
 
Thanks for the write up, nice to hear your experiences. I did a similar thing in 2006 and absolutely fell in love with the Mustang, and that was the rubbishy old base spec one!

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Nice write up Fox. One thing I wondered was whether the rentals cars are given a certain gearbox programming to get the most mileage and reliability out of the car rather than performance. Might just be the box was useless of course but makes you wonder when you describe it as getting to top gear asap.

Also that's so true about the amount you see, almost exclusively driven by Europeans doing West Coast driving tours :p
 
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Rich_L said:
Also that's so true about the amount you see, almost exclusively driven by Europeans doing West Coast driving tours :p
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Hey, we ain't Europeans, we're British :p ...I hate being referred to in any way as a European, I know the British Isles are geographically part of Europe, but what can you do.
 
Good review that, enjoyed reading it. Was 16 days enough to do everything you wanted to do, or would an extra week or so have been handy? Also, how did you find doing 2000+ miles whilst on holiday? We're wanting to do the US west coast at some point over the next couple of years but we're not sure whether we'd want to spend quite so much time in a car.
 
Jez said:
Snap :) Glad you had a good time!

The car is quite poor, very low quality, typically american, why anybody would buy one over here is utterly beyond me when we have cheap cars from the likes of BMW and Mercedes. Even so, great rental. I'd get one again.
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Maybe I'm not looking in the right places but I cannot find a decent BMW for the same price as a decent mustang in Canada. I'm not talking 2011 mustang though.

BMWs and the like are more expensive in Canada.
 
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Moeks said:
Hey, we ain't Europeans, we're British :p ...I hate being referred to in any way as a European, I know the British Isles are geographically part of Europe, but what can you do.
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*Brits and Europeans then, the Mustang is popular amongst our funny-speaking friends across the pond, though CruiseAmerica RVs are very popular too :p
 
Trojan said:
Good review that, enjoyed reading it. Was 16 days enough to do everything you wanted to do, or would an extra week or so have been handy? Also, how did you find doing 2000+ miles whilst on holiday? We're wanting to do the US west coast at some point over the next couple of years but we're not sure whether we'd want to spend quite so much time in a car.
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16 days was fine but obviously the longer the better. The driving was no problem at all, really. I did quite a few days of not much driving (3 nights in San Diego, 3 nights in Vegas, 2 nights in San Francisco).
 
JonRohan said:
Maybe I'm not looking in the right places but I cannot find a decent BMW for the same price as a decent mustang in Canada. I'm not talking 2011 mustang though.

BMWs and the like are more expensive in Canada.
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"Over here" = UK :)

Over here we are spoilt with a used car market which makes the rest of the world weep. As such i cannot see why you would buy one of these.

They are "cool" cars when on holiday, but (certainly in rental spec) do not impress. The gearbox is woeful, the interior is woeful, the general build quality of the car in general is very poor, such as metal showing in the boot, the loom connecting to the boot being just a taped collection of wires, etc.

Compared with europe's finest they do not make good cruisers either, i find them pretty uncomfortable over distance. The ride is hard, the steering is heavy, the seats make your bum go to sleep. This is of course unfair as i am comparing out of class with much more expensive metal, but used over here the comparison is valid.

Gibbo's car is/was perhaps a configuration which makes up for the shortcomings, though, a somewhat different kettle of fish with that much power.
 
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Mustang V6 list price starts at $22k, convertible is from $27k so it's important to remember how cheap these types of American cars are over there.
 
Oh indeed, at those prices, and in that market, fantastic! It explains why the build feels cheap, because they ARE cheap cars, i would go as far to say that they represent great value there.

Over here it is a different story. The absolute cheapest low spec ~200bhp model on autotrader, at nearly 5 years old, is £10,000. Its also in scotland, the home of the oddball bottom of the market autotrader example.
 
Fox - I'm going over to Florida for Christmas. Having never driven in the US I'd like to know how you found it? Easy to adapt etc?

For some unknown reason I'm getting myself worked up thinking it's going to be a nightmare.
 
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