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PTU will smell like propane when it is failing. Fluid should be 75W140 synthetic gear oil. RDU is 80W90.

Lincoln defibrillator?

One of the reasons I got an automatic and the stuff like adaptive cruise and memory seats was so my wife would feel comfortable driving the Mustang on road trips. Unfortunately, she was scared to death of it. You would have thought I brought a loaded AR15 into the house. Eventually, after some cajoling, I got her to drive it. She was super cautious and drove it very gently. Finally, I got her to pull onto a lightly traveled county blacktop road and asked her to stop, set the exhaust to "track," the drive mode to "dragstrip," and to punch it. She did. Her eyes got as big as silver dollars and her response was, "You need to get me a helmet so I can drive when we go to the strip."

If my wife took it in complaining that it was too loud, I doubt if they would put on a new resonator under warranty. ?

Akirby perfectly clarified the difference between "voiding the warranty" and denying coverage for a specific failure due to a modification. I see this terminology confused constantly on the Mustang forums and on Facebook. I have had aftermarket tunes on 3 different vehicles. Between the 3, warranty has covered caliper brackets/ brake pads, transmission range sensor, new instrument cluster, new power seat module and an update to my telematics communication unit. The only car I haven't tuned is my current Mustang. All I have done so far is a resonator delete but it will be getting an E85 tune in the spring.

I don't claim to speak for all of the straight liners. However, in chatting with guys at my local drag strips, I think most guys prefer to mod their cars rather than just buy a drag special. It is not all financial either. I see guys with modified Mustangs who I KNOW have the resources to buy Hellcats, GT500s, Corvettes or whatever. It is really more about the pride of having something special that they...or their money....created. As others have said, it is mostly the internet or magazine racers who complain about this or that.

Yeah, the straight line guys have plenty of options.

From C & D Ford says the GT500 will do zero to 60 in the mid-three-second range, which we think might be a bit conservative (an automatic ZL1 will do a 3.4). The company further claims a quarter-mile run of less than 11 seconds, a good half-second quicker than the ZL1. In both performance parameters, the GT500 should trounce the Hellcat. Yes, even the 797-hp Hellcat Redeye Widebody. Advantage: Ford.

Hmmm......If someone wants to buy me the car, I will take it but I will need to whack off that wing and rip off the white stripes along the rocker panel. I love the mechanical aspects of it, the interior and even the front end (to a degree) but that wing and side stripes are a bit much for my delicate tastes.

I am not sure that I can think of a time in history when Ford was more competitive in terms of performance. Certainly the so called "total performance" days of the 60s saw Ford winning races but it didn't really carry over to the street.

I could go either way on the shifter but I would like to see them use a rotary dial for the drive modes instead of a toggle.....or at least make the toggle bi-directional.

That displacement disadvantage is more than made up for by the DOHC 4 valve per cylinder configuration compared to the pushrod 2 valve competition. Camaro SS owners learn that when they line up against a 2018+ 10A Mustang GT.

I don't understand the desire for a manual in this car. I totally understand and agree with the fun factor of a manual. Thankfully, one is available on a GT350 or regular Mustang. However, the GT500 is the all-out performance model. Replacing the DCT with a manual would dilute that performance. I love the car but it will be too rich for my blood.

That level of power would seem to be adequate. ?

Those Internet/Motor Trend/C&D racers might just have their cake and eat it, too. The GT500 is not a one trick pony but I suspect it will be one QUICK pony.

Looks to be a magnificent well rounded package. Answers the Camaro ZL1 in a big way.

Not sure why the drag racers would be disappointed or even care very much. They are much more likely to mod their cars than expect a factory drag special. Take a GT A10, add a blower kit/tune, of which there are many choices. Add suspension mods and drag radials in the back and skinnies up front and you have a straight line machine. I don't think many drag racers would be willing to pay the dealer markups that are likely with a GT500 when they can scratch their itch for much less and have the enjoyment of doing mods specific to what they want.

Exactly. Even though the GT350 is not designed for drag racing, there are always a couple of them running at the street legal drags where I participate. It is fun to hear them run but they are sort of a fish out of water. I look forward to seeing a 2020 GT500 at the strip. I think it is too bad that the Bullitt is manual only. Even with 20 more HP, they won't run with an A10.

Very true. Also, it takes a pretty good pilot in a 2013-2014 GT500 to beat a new Mustang GT. I have seen them run at my tracks and while they turn a higher trap speed, they don't always turn quicker ETs. Another interesting thing is that our 10 speed auto mustangs are quicker on the dragstrip than new GT350s with their voodoo engines and manual transmissions. Those Voodoo engines sound exotic once wound up but they don't have low end torque and the manual makes them difficult to launch without bogging.

I know...just kidding..... responding to the reference to Johnny Cash's song, "One piece at a time." You are probably too young to remember it.

Fuzzy will need to be patient if he plans on taking out all the pieces one at a time....and will need a big lunch box and a friend with a mobile home. ?

If it were all about fun on the street, I would have gotten the manual in my Mustang. To be more accurate, I would have just kept my 2016 GT with the manual. However, there is a sizable difference in quarter mile times between the manual and 10 speed auto. I like to drag race so it was the 10 speed for me. With the various driving modes, configurable instrumentation and active exhaust, there is still plenty to play with. With the various drive modes, the 10 speed is almost like having 4 different transmissions - smooth and polite in normal mode up to raise hell hooligan in drag mode with sport+ and track along the way. There is also the snow/wet mode but that basically changes the throttle mapping.

I don't know how widespread the issues are. I suspect potential Mustang GT buyers as well as owners are much more active on forums and social media than many other types of buyers. Unfortunately, some are quite easily influenced. There doesn't seem to be a specific batch of engines or build dates that have "problems." The so called "typewriter tick" has been around for years. The "rattle" or "knock" seems to be confined to some 2018 and 2019 models. Mine was built in December of 2017 and is fine. There have been shortblock and longblock replacements done for engines built sooner as well as later than that.