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LiquidZ 03-31-2010 11:45 AM

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Originally Posted by WICKED_GRIN (Post 474500)
more food for thought.....or fuel for the fire.....enjoy


Review: 2011 Ford Mustang GT | The Truth About Cars

Kona Blue is my favorite color for the Mustang. Gorgeous.

m4a1mustang 03-31-2010 11:51 AM

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Originally Posted by LiquidZ (Post 474527)
Kona Blue is my favorite color for the Mustang. Gorgeous.

+1 Wish I could have that color on the Z.

m4a1mustang 03-31-2010 11:52 AM

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Originally Posted by WICKED_GRIN (Post 474500)
more food for thought.....or fuel for the fire.....enjoy


Review: 2011 Ford Mustang GT | The Truth About Cars

Good read. The people that bash this car have never driven one in anger.

WICKED_GRIN 03-31-2010 12:06 PM

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Originally Posted by m4a1mustang (Post 474539)
Good read. The people that bash this car have never driven one in anger.





I hope a friend buys one so we can swap cars for a day!

Pharmacist 03-31-2010 12:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Zsteve (Post 474515)
faster is nice but for me the real decision is the looks inside and out. The stang by design is bland to me inside and out. I like the new high tech looking insides and the exterior of the Z is way cool. They should have changed the body style and interioe of the 2011 stang to make it more modern. Retro interiors are out. If Nissan ever makes a V8 Z then it will have tons of power but they probably wont cuz it would enter the GTRs area.

won't happen unfortunately. but hey maybe nissan can drop the v8 into the gt-r and give us instead a slightly detuned version of the current gtr turbo v6. then we can go hunting m3 and 911 carrera :yum::driving: mustang what?

m4a1mustang 03-31-2010 12:34 PM

FWIW the Z is a retro design, albeit a more progressive one than the Mustang.

Matt 03-31-2010 12:42 PM

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Originally Posted by LiquidZ (Post 474527)
Kona Blue is my favorite color for the Mustang. Gorgeous.


Grabber Orange is SO sexy to me. But it would look terrible on my Nismo. :(

The Kona Blue isn't far from Daytona Blue for the 350z. Monterey Blue pales in comparison to those 2 shades, imo.

rednek01 03-31-2010 12:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Matt (Post 474676)
Grabber Orange is SO sexy to me. But it would look terrible on my Nismo. :(

The Kona Blue isn't far from Daytona Blue for the 350z. Monterey Blue pales in comparison to those 2 shades, imo.

did someone say Grabber Orange? I'll have another one up in a few minutes with my newly painted hood. :tup:

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y15...e/IMG_0187.jpg

Newer picture with my painted hood partially shown (need to take some new pics)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y15...1/731a6687.jpg

Pharmacist 03-31-2010 12:49 PM

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Originally Posted by m4a1mustang (Post 474645)
FWIW the Z is a retro design, albeit a more progressive one than the Mustang.

the big difference though is that the z borrows styling cues from the old 240z but adds a lot of modern touches to it. the mustang is essentially a carbon copy of the older model, both inside and out. it gives more of an impression of lack of creativity than a tribute to its lineage. the ford gt at least mixed retro with modernity pretty good. speaking of which, that ford gt was a pretty nice car, the only modern ford i would have loved to own one day. too bad they killed it and instead kept making those outdated mustangs. and yes, they are outdated. a solid rear axle has no place whatsoever on a 21st century car. i can tolerate anything and everything else on a car, but that solid axle needs to die, get buried, and never be resurrected again.

m4a1mustang 03-31-2010 01:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Pharmacist (Post 474704)
the big difference though is that the z borrows styling cues from the old 240z but adds a lot of modern touches to it. the mustang is essentially a carbon copy of the older model, both inside and out. it gives more of an impression of lack of creativity than a tribute to its lineage. the ford gt at least mixed retro with modernity pretty good. speaking of which, that ford gt was a pretty nice car, the only modern ford i would have loved to own one day. too bad they killed it and instead kept making those outdated mustangs. and yes, they are outdated. a solid rear axle has no place whatsoever on a 21st century car. i can tolerate anything and everything else on a car, but that solid axle needs to die, get buried, and never be resurrected again.

Solid rear axles schmolid rear axle... it gets the job done. Granted they will be going IRS eventually... it's an inevitability. When that day comes, however, I can see a lot of purists (of the drag racing variety) getting pissed off. Though a 2010 Track Pack GT with IRS would no doubt put up better numbers than the current live axle. It's actually scary to think about how good that car would be all around.

I do agree about the styling and how it lacks imagination. I wish they progressed from the 99-04 design instead of going back to 1964.5 and taking that entire design. That said, I do think Ford did a really good job with it, I just wish they had gone a different route.

My biggest gripe has always been the size. The 99-04s were sized right. My 03 GT weighed a little over 3200 lbs and was more comparable in size to a 370 than a 2005+ Mustang. Wish they had kept the dimension (and weight) in smaller.

Red370 03-31-2010 01:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Matt (Post 474676)
Grabber Orange is SO sexy to me. But it would look terrible on my Nismo. :(

The Kona Blue isn't far from Daytona Blue for the 350z. Monterey Blue pales in comparison to those 2 shades, imo.

I thought that was yellow...

theDreamer 03-31-2010 01:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Red370 (Post 474737)
I thought that was yellow...

On the Mustang or the Z?
The Mustang has Grabber Orange and Screaming Yellow, in certain light the orange can have a hint of yellow.

m4a1mustang 03-31-2010 01:16 PM

Damnit I want a Kona Blue Z!!!

Red370 03-31-2010 01:16 PM

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Originally Posted by theDreamer (Post 474743)
On the Mustang or the Z?
The Mustang has Grabber Orange and Screaming Yellow, in certain light the orange can have a hint of yellow.

Theres a guy that i work with that has a GT500, thought it was a ugly shade of yellow, but looking at the color of rednecks, i guess its orange...

rednek01 03-31-2010 01:21 PM

Screaming yellow...
http://bradbarnett.net/mustangs/comp...mingYellow.jpg

Grabber orange...

http://www.unique-export.com/res/Def...gemustang1.jpg


slightly color blind?


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