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Originally Posted by shaffe
Again, can someone point me to where straight from Ford, they said the car was going to lose weight?
I remember the rumor mills stating it, I remember a lot of sites posting 200# weight loss, I for the life of me can not remember Ford ever saying it directly.
I found one article that said "insider sources say mustang to lose 400#"...but it also said it would be 15 inches shorter too and we know how that turned out.
Because if Ford never sated it outright I don't see it as a fail. They came right out and said the 15 F-150 can be up to 700 pounds lighter, I don't remember them ever saying anything officially on Mustang weight
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Ford's new-for-2015 Mustang is months away from hitting the road, but already the automaker is hyping up its ponycar's improved performance.
Speaking with Automotive.com, Ford representative Brian Cotter indicated that the standard Mustang GT will best the outgoing track-oriented Boss 302 Laguna Seca. A short-run special edition, the Laguna Seca lapped its namesake race track - Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in California - in a hair under 1:40.
The new Mustang GT, says Cotter, will lap the course in even less time. The site says that Ford benchmarked the Porsche 911 and BMW M3 when it was developing the car's on-track performance.
Ford has indicated that the new Mustang will weigh somewhere around 200 lbs. less than its predecessor, which will help its power-to-weight ratio. Although exact performance specifications haven't been announced, a small power boost for the brand's 5.0-liter V8-powered GT is expected.
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What they dont say is whether or not the weight loss is with the use of the new 2.3 or with the 5.0? Even with the weight loss coming strictly from the use of the 2.3L, the 5.0 is only about 100 lbs heavier so to me it seems the GT should see a minimum of 100 lbs lost.