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35 more parts will be available for your new Mustang, none of which will make it faster. We at Roush are proud of our floormats, though. When we finally get the bugs worked out of the supercharger you can spend another few thousand dollars to compete with a new Camaro.
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...Here at Roush we have found that the public's desire for tuner Mustangs is recession proof as we set a record last year for Roush-logoed e-brake covers.
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Also, seeing as the engine didn't really change, I don't forsee many bugs. ;)
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Historically, Shelby. Nowadays, probably a fair tie between Shelby and Saleen. Roush produces cars that are the match of Shelbys and Saleens, but isn't quite as well-known; kind of like the confident old guy that sits at the back of bar, whose is so confident in himself and kicked so much ass that he really has nothing left to prove.
That being said, I am not much of a fan of any of them.
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@pauljones: Interesting views,as you probably know it's not a car that's really sold in the U.K.,the only Mustangs i've seen here are generally owned by flash types with bad haircuts & big egos that think they own the best car in the world. They're not a favourie of mine as i prefer the look of the older,classic Mustangs.
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I am not a huge Mustang guy either, for the same reason that yo pointed out about their stereotypical owners. They are also still a little behind in the tech category, too.
But at the same time, part of what makes Mustangs so great isn't how much they have evolved over the past 40 years, but rather how little they have evolved. They started out as sporting little machines that were simple and had tons of potential. And, rather than going through monumental revolutions from model to model, they have simply undergone evolutionary changes to suit the time that they are being sold.
And, after all these years, that hasn't changed. It can be argued that they have been hampered by added weight and options, but there isn't much that can be done about that. Some of the weight has to do with meeting US safety standards, and you can still order a stripper version without all the options.
When it comes down to it, each progressive Mustang, while not revolutionary, has done one thing and one thing well: offer more of the same, only better. And for the Mustangs target audience, that's all they really want.
So, from that standpoint, I may not care as much for Mustangs, and I may not care for their stereotypical owners at all, but I do respect them, and I do respect the big tuners like Roush, Saleen, and Shelby that tinker with them.
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I have heard that 99% of all Mustangs are immediately shipped to Roush, Saleen, Shelby and Yemen.
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Seriously. Good one you for being original and keeping it original. The only other person I know with an original, stock, completely unmodified Mustang is my young cousin, as she doesn't care about going all that fast, just about having something that looks cool. It, too is a V6, but has an auto.
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And then I stopped and pulled my head out of my ass.
The Mustang was originally a sporty, fun, reasonably-priced car. Yes, it can be modified about a million different ways to make it perform better. But that's not really why I bought it.
I bought it because I like the styling and I needed something with better fuel mileage than my F150.
I don't want it to be riced out. I don't want it to be faster than it is. I want it to be pure Mustang.