2.0L 4-pot to 5.0L V8

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I think I might be having an early midlife crisis. Our first child is barely 6 months old and I just agreed to part-ex this:



for this:




It's a MY18 Mustang GT 10 speed auto with magneride and custom pack 2 (Nav/climate seats). I think this is the most excited I've been about getting a car since my first car! I've loved the Mustang ever since I drove the previous generation on a USA road trip, but I lay the blame firmly at the new Grand Tour season

There is some logic. I've always had the main family car and my wife the run-around, however we swapped her mini for an XC60 which is now the family car.

I'll be using it a lot in the week for work so will be doing circa 20k miles per year in it!

 

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Thanks everyone. At least I'll finally have something worthwhile to bring to the next motors meet!

Was researching into the active exhaust last night after reading your post Gibbo. Think it was in standard when I test drove it so can't wait to try it in track mode.

The car seat fits, just means moving the passenger seat forward. Fortunately my wife is fairly short!

The plan currently is to keep it standard other than maybe some minor cosmetic changes. Watch this space!

You're more than welcome to a shotgun ride Raymond Lin

Not got any interior pics currently, I was that excited I almost forgot external pics!! Picking it up on Thursday and will post better pics as soon as I have it.

I feel like a big kid

 

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Mustangs must have roomy back seats, my son’s rear facing seat takes up all of the space in the back of my CLS. I had to tilt my seat up almost to the point where it’s uncomfortable.

Good luck getting a kid in the back when they’re in a fixed rear facing seat

It is very nice though

Cheers. Car seat in the back was ok, it reduces leg room for the passenger seat but my wife is fairly short! It's a rotating car seat so when not in use I can spin it sideways and put the passenger seat further back.

What's the fuel economy like in one of those? Pushing 30mpg?

There seems to be lots of different views online and plenty of "you don't buy a Mustang for the MPG", but consensus seems to be 25-28 on a long run and in the teens for short journeys if it's driven sensibly. I got 26 on an extended test drive.

Congrats, you are going to love it.

Same spec as my wife's car other than body paint and stripes.

In regards to your cosmetic changes I can see the side '5.0' badges are missing did you get those removed? Also if you are considering replacing the front emblem with a black version its MUCH easier to re-spray the current one in place. 2015-17 model had a gap that allowed you to unclip it from behind, for the 2018 you have to take the whole front end of the car off.

Internet cookie for anyone that can spot the issue in the above interior pics, you would need to seriously know your Mustangs to notice.

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It looks like the previous owner already removed the 5.0 badges, which is convenient as I was planning to do the same thing. I had already looked at buying a black emblem so really good to know it's easier to rerspray! Might just order some plastidip paint so I can peel it off again, thanks.

I'm assuming you didn't mean doing 20k miles in the family car, that's going to be a pretty hefty fuel bill! and would it not depreciate the car a bit quicker? (again assuming you're keeping her for more than a year).

15k-18k of it will be business mileage with a break-even of 25mpg on fuel, so shouldn't be too horrendous.

Nice Car! So do you have a 2nd car as well at the household?

The wife has an XC60 as the family car that all the baby stuff lives in. Ever since getting it the A4 has become the car I use for work and the odd trip out on my own.

 

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They are fine on fuel, the MY18 also has both direct and port injection, plus with 10-speed it shall be quite economical for a V8 if driven in auto and not a heavy foot.
Mustangs are great because you can drive slow and be that cool person who decided to try something different and listen to that V8 burble along and simply be grinning from ear to ear, or you can plant your foot and experience great acceleration as the MY18 10-speed is no slouch once rolling, the gear box keeps its on the boil as the V8 in the Mustang likes to rev, really wakes up past 5000rpm and will rev out to nearly 8000rpm in the MY18.

Its a fun car, V8 NA, RWD and you can still get a manual too, its why they've done so well, only thing that killed MY18 sales somewhat was the big price increase from MY15-17 cars but in fairness they come with a lot more equipment as standard.

That's the hope Gibbo, that using it for work up and down the A1 the MPG will be acceptable cruising along at 70 with adaptive cruise on, leaving me to properly enjoy the start/finish to the journey and the weekends!

I was really impressed with the kit it comes with, higher than most cars out there.

 

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Ha - I did the same. v8, ingot silver 6spd manual

Do it... they are so much fun. And you get a baby seat in the back no probs!

This could be a load of rubbish, but do i remember you were keywroth based as a kid?

Yes I was, lived in Keyworth until I went to Uni, still living in south Notts villages. I take it you went to South Wolds?

 

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Cheers Gibbo. Getting 30+ for business mileage will be brilliant, it'll actually mean it costs me less than my current car given the HMRC fuel rates!

I did see about the tyres being changed, I've got the same Michelins on the A4 and have been really impressed with them compared with the Contis I had before.

The DSC info is really good to know, thanks. Based on the above I think I will keep it in wet for the time being until I start to get used to the car and how it feels. Particularly given it's forecast to snow the day I pick it up!

 

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I have the pzeros on mine still. Utterly horribly things in the wet and cold. Just be sensible and use wetmode until you have them changed

Fortunately they've moved away from the P Zeros and now come with Michelin Pilot Sport 4S as standard which are very highly rated.

Black wheels though!

I'm still not sure how I feel about black alloys and might change them. The car was such a bargain versus anything else that was available the colour was somewhat an afterthought!

I've been mulling over the last few days changing the alloys to gunmetal and fitting matching stripes down the centre

Edit: A bit like this https://www.autographicspro.com/201...ory-OEM-Style-Vinyl-Decal-Graphics_p_637.html

 

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Ditto, but then I own the the same car

@Abyss was it the 190ps or 252ps?

190ps. It's been a lovely car but I've done 50k miles in it over 2 years and got bored of being in it.
Spec was epic though and included tech pack, virtual cockpit, comfort and sound pack (B&O sound system/electric seats/gesture boot), touring pack (adaptive cruise, lane assist etc), matrix LED headlights, full leather and boot storage system.

 

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It is a Mustang, you can do whatever stripes you want, as loud of colour as you want, do what makes you happy.

Wheels are your choice, people on this forum moan a lot about black wheels and though I agree with their thoughts, it is getting a bit boring now reading it everytime someone post a car with black wheels. Changing colour of wheels typically cost £200-£300 a set so its hardly end of the world or a deal breaker.

I changed my stock Mustang wheels from the nickel silver colour to more a sparkle/stainless steel colour, reckon would work great on black car:

From this stock colour:

The stainles steel definitely looks better, where did you get them done? Once I get it on the drive I'm going to mull over a few options then probably wait until the weather is better and the alloys are getting caked in salt. I think in your situation I'd have been tempted to keep the original colour if it meant having a model stood next to the car at all times

 

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Hadn't realised it was used, whoever had it before couldn't have had it long. If you don't mind me asking (an understand if you don't want to say) but what did you give for it? Would be interesting to know how much we have already lost on ours.

Bought it for the asking price of £33,850 . It was traded in via the Sytner Group against a Ferrari, and Volvo Sytner Select in Warwick bought it through the group to resell. From what I was told the guy who runs the dealership in Warwick is a big petrol head so probably just wanted to play with the new Mustang. The deal was conditional that it had to be off their books before month end.

I was lucky, literally saw it appear on Autotrader and reserved it straight away. Between me reserving and viewing it they had dozens of enquiries including from other dealers / specialists apparently (although this could be sales patter!).

The car was new in June '18, so 7 months old.

I took a bit of a hit on the part-ex of mine (£1k below Glasses / CAP HPI) but there was no interest in negotiating and I'm not one for selling privately.

 

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A few examples of the sort of cars that are being sold through a Sytner Volvo dealer:

2013(63) Bentley Continental GT 4.0 V8 Mulliner
2013 Audi R8 5.2 FSI V10 Quattro 2dr S Tronic
2010(60) Porsche 911 2dr PDK Coupe
2017(17) Mercedes-Benz C Class C63 S Premium 4dr Auto
2017(17) Ford Focus Rs 2.3 EcoBoost 5dr

Felt a bit odd sitting in a Volvo dealership buying a Mustang!

 

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How much part ex did you get?

£15k, same as WBAC.

Cracking price that, fact its a 10-speed with mag ridge, assuming it does have mag ride, you could probably sell trade for 34-35k and 37-39k in retail if you got lucky, so enjoy it, you've bought truly at bottom of market price there, so you will probably still get 28-30k for it in a couple of years time as long as you don't hyper mile it.

For the money nothing beats these cars.

Cheers, yes it's got Mag ride (or at least it was listed in the advertised spec). How will I tell on the car itself when I pick it up?

The price was what convinced me, I'd always wanted one but couldn't justify the cost. When I saw it advertised I did some man maths though stuff it this is going to be the cheapest I will get to have a Mustang and lose less depreciation than buying one of the ex-demo new shape A6s I was looking at.

 

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The ride comfort will change:
Wet: Normal, could be softer not sure, lazy throttle response, light steering, traction full on.
Normal: Normal suspension, normal throttle response, medium steering, traction less on.
Sport: Firmer, you will feel it, heavier steering, quick throttle response, traction even less.
Track: Firmer again, same steering as sport, quick more linear throttle response, traction is off, stability dialled way back.
Drag: Soft front, firm rear


Quite noticeable between the modes and you can set stuff like steering and exhaust independently and enjoy that digital dash its still the best digital dash I've seen on any car, Ford nailed that, better than what I've seen in Lamborghini which says something it is properly focused around driving and it is really customiseable with rev lights, gear change lights, colours, rev counter layouts, you will be amazed by it.

Cheers Gibbo. Good to hear the digital dash is great. I've got used to the Audi virtual cockpit so was expecting it to be a downgrade but sounds like that won't be the case! I will miss the google maps directly in front of me a bit on the Audi though.


Does anyone have a view on normal unleaded versus the higher octane options? At work there's a petrol station on the campus with Tesco Momentum price matched to normal unleadeds o I will be using Tesco Momentum when I fill up there, but realistically won't always be able to time it to just fill up at the office.

 

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Hey. Sorry everyone, its been a manic week or so at work with redundancies announced so I haven't had time to breathe.

Absolutely loving the car. I'll be back home later this afternoon and will upload some pics and a video of the digital dash in action.

I'm still getting used to the car but it's everything I imagained and better. Getting 30-31mpg when driving it for work and averaged 25 since picking it up so can't complain about the mpg! The digital dash is excellent and really easy to use / read.

I'll do a more detailed overview later today.

 

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Finally uploaded some pictures! I haven't cleaned it myself properly yet but went via the local hand car washers before taking some photos. The 5.0 badges have also magically re-appeared even though I didn't add them...!

Engine starting:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/jhz49g0qb5kfi0s/MVI_3284.MOV?dl=0

Digital dash:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/up64cg2pqlmxeu5/MVI_3283.MOV?dl=0

I've been really pleasantly suprised how easy the car is to drive. I've done about 800 miles in it so far and find it extremely comfortable and handles bumps really well. it's equally an absolute animal when I want it to be

Highlights so far:

• Attracts a lot of attention but in a good way, not had any agro so far which I was a bit worried about but plenty of people wanting to have a look at the car, ask me about it etc. Even on the road people seem to slow down to see it, or flash to let me out
  
• MPG is way better than i expected. a 200 mile round trip up and down the A1 with a bit of spirited driving either end and I easily get 30 mpg
• The sounds - Put the active exhaust into sport/track and it sounds epic! Equally I can set it to automatically start in quiet mode at certain times of the day to look after the neighbours!
• The speed that it climbs up to 70 is scary! It has twice the BHP of the most powerful car I've owned before this and it certainly feels like it! Just leaving it wet mode and D on the gear box is quick, but changing to S and it's certainly cabable of accellerating quicker than my limits!
  
• Android Auto works great, and now I have Waze installed I don't miss the Audi MMI

The things that aren't as great:

• The adaptive cruise / lane assist isn't a patch on Audi's touring pack, no traffic jam assist and the steering assist on the Audi would drive for you, the Mustang it just randomly jerks the wheel back into the lane
• The built in entertainment system works fine, has everything you need but it isn't a patch on the Audi MMI in terms of ease of use. I'm glad I'm using Android Auto mainly.
• Paint - Theres a paint defect just inside the boot (on the rear arch panel), a couple of sections of paint have lifted back to bare metal so I need to get this sorted under the warranty
• Dashcam location - Because the windscreen is so angled, the dash cam I have looks ridiculous. I am looking at getting one with a far slimmer mount

On an unrelated highlight my wife's XC60 was picked up last week for a non-fault insurance repair and the third parties insurer who use Enterprise decided that an equivalent SUV with a large boot was this:

A brand new Range Rover Autobiography

I think we got the neighbours talking!!! I was hoping to get some decent pics of the cars together but the Range Rover was picked up on Friday before I had chance.

 

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My other half did ask me why we were even bothering looking at other cars when she saw my grin getting into the car! Apparently I don't often look that excited

Do it! The grin on my face was what convinced me to get the Mustang. It made me feel like a 7 year old again going into Toys R Us to buy the 1:18 scale Ferrari F40 I'd been saving for. I grin ear to ear every time I even look at the car.

 

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Looks great and welcome to the club. Strange about the badges as in your original pic they definitely aren't fitted, unless its a photoshop.

Cheers. It is odd and something I only just noticed! When I saw them on the car I assumed I just hadn't noticed them in the first pics, but then I scrolled back to page 1 and checked. I took both sets of pictures so they definitely weren't there when I test drove it (I have pictures of both sides). Also they were originally silver with a red dot when the car was new so the black ones aren't the factory originals.

 

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I'm sorry... But did I read that correctly? You had the local hand car wash clean that? Are you totally mad? What the hell is wrong with you?!

Lol hand car wash place big nooooo..

Shame about the local hand wash! Two bucket method only please!

The days of having time to always hand wash my car are well behind me unfortunately. I've got a rack full of car cleaning stuff in the garage from the days when I used to wash the cars most weekends but only gets used twice a year now when I wax the cars! I'd love the Mustang to always be hand washed but not when doing 20k-25k miles a year, I've done 800 miles in the car in a week.

 

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Lol hand car wash place big nooooo..

Lovely sound, will do a vid of mine, however my iPhone xs max cuts the mic when recording it.

Digital dash is very nice, i honestly thought i wouldn't like it... but i do

Now get onto Facebook (if you haven't already) and join the Mustangs Unleashed and Simply Mustangs groups

Santa Pod meet on the 28th June, mustangs only day.

Re: the Black badges, they are available from the dealers, they come as standard on the Shadow Edition cars.

Cheers will look into the groups on Facebook. Still seems odd that a Volvo garage went to the effort of fitting badges unless they were fitted by the previous owner and just temporarily removed for cleaning or something.

 

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Thought I should try and redeem myself slightly with a wash followed by a Collinite wax.





Also my MPG to date is 28.3 over 1305 miles


and on a run (with a heavy foot before joining and after leaving the A1 but driven econimically in between) it's 32.5