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The New Mustang 2010 Gets Bad

The new Mustang is on its way and this time it might not be that disappointment that you always get with pony cars that look muscular.

Its new front grille means serious business. They used to say that the bad guys in movies drove Chargers, but I think that this time the 'stang does the trick. It's mean. If you see one of those coming at you on the street, with that thundering V8 and serial killer looks, you will wet your pants.

It still caries that 60s styling (all cars of this type do) and it wins your heart instantly. Ford assumes that all its customers will do road trips with it, and listen to the sound of a 4.6 Liter V8. The problem isn't that, it's the power. All I know about a such a car is that it should be powerful. This one, in its top of the line form, only chucks out 315 HP, which is less than a Mitsubishi Evo IX FQ420. And that only has a 4 cylinder engine. This makes the Mustang a bit of a pony.

The interior has been heavily upgraded. In terms of quality, it seems to be a lot better. Plastic things on the dash almost disappeared, the lighting looks premium and the seats look better built. In fact the whole car looks like it's built with quality in mind. We can still recognize the gear knob from the Ford Focus, and the rear window heating system looks like the one on an old '69 Renault 12.

The suspension has always been the Achilles' heel of the Mustang, and guess what? It still is. Ford decided to lift the suspension from the old one and fit it into the new one. Despite being built on an all new platform, this car has its dad's faults.

So, to sum up, the new Mustang has 15 more HP, new lights and dash, but the same live rear axle suspension that killed the last one. So, would we buy one of these cars? Of course we would. This is motoring history, it has killer looks, and a soundtrack capable of spinning heads 10 times faster than it accelerates.

So what if the two back wheels are connected by a metal bar? And it can't take corners properly? It is still a Mustang, and wherever the pony goes, it receives respect.
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