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Welcome to the episode of jaylen's garage the car featuring today the 2021 ford mustang mach 1. i'm sorry if it looks a little bit dirty let me borrow this and i put 200 miles on it the other day and there's not much tire left the thing that assigned me the most was the steering it's amazing to me how far american manufacturing has come and handling and breaking and saying we've always made fast cars i mean that's been a given since the 60s but almost regardless of the make with the gm ford chrysler american technology and handling and braking this is a true sports car i mean it is truly an amazing automobile uh i've got a gt350 mine's a 2015 and this of course six years later and this has a lot of the quality not as much horsepower as that one this is 480 but it has a 10 speed automatic which boggles my mind because you know the more gears you put in the transmission the smaller they are and literally the stronger they have to be and i was curious to try this because this transmission thinks for you if you're on a track a little adapt and you know if you normally normally you go when you downshift you know you're in fourth or fifth and he come to the corner and downshifts it sequentially this will go it'll learn your style and go like fifth to third or fifth to second depending on how i mean i wanted to try this 10 speed because well it's a 10 speed i mean it's hilarious to need to put your foot in i mean it just keeps shifting you go where am i 7 12 where am i at now i mean it's pretty amazing uh i'm going to bring in the gentleman who's the brand manager for uh shelby and mustang jim jim come on in nice job on this hi jay and they encourage you to beat it up i said uh oh you know the tires are kind of bald and he goes no no that's all right don't worry about it but you know i just had a lot of fun with this i mean like i said american cars are always fast but the europeans always used to make fun of us because you come to a corner and the front end would plow under or whatever this is really a sports car that you can drive every day in there it is the well actually now the world's best-selling sports car oh is that right yeah about that and we have been for the last couple of years but jay you know you remember the 60s fondly right which is the straight line and you mentioned some of the manufacturers but like remember the old amc javelin right back in the day you know it would go very quick straight line uh laterally left and right if you think of the way they used to run like at laguna seca they could they could do well race prepared but the evolution of this sports car specifically on the mustang and everything we have learned from 2015 and that gt350 that you drive is in this today it is the pinnacle of that five-liter performance right of what our engineers have learned over the past six years you know you're tom barnes your del zios all those folks who actually put that engineering in are mustang enthusiasts just like you right and they've been able to give that confidence in this vehicle now this doesn't have the flat plane crank like mine no it's a cross plane crank in the five liter right um you know that that cross-plane crank um obviously does some different things that flat plane that you have in the 350 for your revving and a unique sound and that is just a unique sound this one was based off of the five liter and we wanted to develop that pinnacle of 5-liter performance and the mach 1 is it it's almost as if you they sort of went to the parts bin and took.
Best pieces from the 350 and the other and sort of put them together yeah because uh boy it just drives so nicely i mean there are a lot of folks out there that need four seats no matter how cramped they are yeah yeah you have to have it you know and sometimes that's the case with me too when i got to take my brother-in-law somewhere if nieces and that kind of stuff so oh okay and geez and i i must say i you know i'm a standard shift guy but i just wanted to try this 10 speed just to see the number 10 come up and i'm going 70 and i'm turning on 2100 rpms i go wow that's amazing it is unbelievable and you know um the gt2 500 you've driven right has that tremec dual clutch you know electronically controlled you know kind of like the drag and the ford gt that you have but this is a 10r torque converter transmission that was adapted and this didn't take on you know we weren't going to do the performance and handling package on the automatic right until we got feedback in july from customers that you know we're getting a little bit let's say more seasoned right and maybe not the third pedal that you want but you still want to be able to drive it out on track right um so the development team literally from about july time frame until when we actually brought it out because the pilot sport cup twos we can't produce in the winter in march when it released we developed actually the automatic with the handling package that you felt from july basically till march now you know we took this up to willow springs you know most transmissions you when you you're on the straight and you slow down it'll go five four three two whereas this will when it realizes that you manually yeah put it in third instead of fourth or second instead of fifth it'll do it it doesn't so it's it's through the electronics okay and and it will pop through from fifth to fourth to third to get it into that position um but what it does is it through in the computers that are on this vehicle from the magneride suspension that's in there from the fuel system that's in there plus the anti-lock braking system in the roll control all of that is tied into that transmission as well so it gets that feedback from all of those sensors that allows it to figure out how you are driving and put you in the best position to get back into the accelerator around a road course if it knows when i hit 100 miles an hour and get on the brakes it knows the last three times i did that it went fifth to third or fifth the second it'll do that a little bit and what it does is it adapts as it's going through and it doesn't have like a memory if you will but what it does is like when we're doing the development when you when you buy this car jay you get an opportunity to go to the ford performance racing school and learn how to drive it right when we were out there developing the course the engineers there were telling us that hey we had to put a couple good you know first slow speed laps and then into it so that the transmission can learn how we were doing it at that inside rovel at charlotte tell me about the brakes are just an incredible i mean if you think about it um you know what we learned in the gt500 zero to a hundred to zero on the deck of an aircraft carrier right so the folks that were developing that program worked on this braking system as well those six piston brembo calipers in there places you and i don't want to go at night we want those six pistons on that car the stopping distance is absolutely amazing and repeatable well you know i like that sort of boutique engineering where you make the best thing you make and if somebody else makes a better break let's get there somebody makes a better tire you put the michelin you know.
I mean that's it just it's what an instrument in the old days you would buy the mustang and then you would go somewhere and buy and have them put on you know now it all just comes from from one it works with the partners jay and from ford performance where you know we work with not only the recaro the brembo but these michelin pilot sport cup twos you know the four s's are in the base car the handling package car gets the the cup twos um all of those partners work with our engineering development to develop it specifically for the vehicle right so it's not just you grab the thing off the shelf that brembo makes the brembo engineers and and you know and the recaro seat folks will literally work to develop that specifically for this vehicle to maximize that performance and we're really happy with the partners i like this seat it's like a halfway between like when i got my gt350 it had the butter collection you know i said i said give me my stock seats i put my stock seats in because i'm in traffic and i use it a lot and if i'm sitting like this all the time yeah you know whereas this is really a nice compromise it's got it's got enough support but it's still a comfortable chair and you know obviously fmvss compliant so can hold you in while you're doing the lateral turns like you're up at the streets of willow or big willow it'll hold you in there plus then when you're on the five coming south you'll feel comfortable in it yeah i mean it you know it's it's interesting it really is the best of the gt350 with whatever comfort items it's not as hardcore as that it's got enough so the families can think of it as a family car and you can drive it yeah you can drive it right from here right up to the streets of willow yeah literally do the adjustments for your tire pressure adjust the camber plates if you want because it comes with the camber plates on it that you can adjust for track use then flip it out yourself re loosen them re-push them back in and then drive back home again now the mach 1 name has been dorman for what about 30 something years um well we did have one in the 0 304 right it was that it was the the last of the gen 4 mustangs that's right i guess right true yeah it was those last two years um and other than that yeah it was back to the 60s if you think about we did have the little mustang 2 version but if you think about it what mach 1 meant at the time was you know about breaking the speed of sound right it's nice when you think of big willow right up there that's where the sound barrier was broken that was about personalization and arrow if you look at the front splitter on this j that actually puts that down force on there hundreds of iterations to work on that arrow to make it you know the best downforce possible with that front splitter i pulled into a fast food place and i thought well i'm i'll park a little bit behind the thing just in case and i get up and run i was a quarter of an inch from from the curve i mean that really.
Best pieces from the 350 and the other and sort of put them together yeah because uh boy it just drives so nicely i mean there are a lot of folks out there that need four seats no matter how cramped they are yeah yeah you have to have it you know and sometimes that's the case with me too when i got to take my brother-in-law somewhere if nieces and that kind of stuff so oh okay and geez and i i must say i you know i'm a standard shift guy but i just wanted to try this 10 speed just to see the number 10 come up and i'm going 70 and i'm turning on 2100 rpms i go wow that's amazing it is unbelievable and you know um the gt2 500 you've driven right has that tremec dual clutch you know electronically controlled you know kind of like the drag and the ford gt that you have but this is a 10r torque converter transmission that was adapted and this didn't take on you know we weren't going to do the performance and handling package on the automatic right until we got feedback in july from customers that you know we're getting a little bit let's say more seasoned right and maybe not the third pedal that you want but you still want to be able to drive it out on track right um so the development team literally from about july time frame until when we actually brought it out because the pilot sport cup twos we can't produce in the winter in march when it released we developed actually the automatic with the handling package that you felt from july basically till march now you know we took this up to willow springs you know most transmissions you when you you're on the straight and you slow down it'll go five four three two whereas this will when it realizes that you manually yeah put it in third instead of fourth or second instead of fifth it'll do it it doesn't so it's it's through the electronics okay and and it will pop through from fifth to fourth to third to get it into that position um but what it does is it through in the computers that are on this vehicle from the magneride suspension that's in there from the fuel system that's in there plus the anti-lock braking system in the roll control all of that is tied into that transmission as well so it gets that feedback from all of those sensors that allows it to figure out how you are driving and put you in the best position to get back into the accelerator around a road course if it knows when i hit 100 miles an hour and get on the brakes it knows the last three times i did that it went fifth to third or fifth the second it'll do that a little bit and what it does is it adapts as it's going through and it doesn't have like a memory if you will but what it does is like when we're doing the development when you when you buy this car jay you get an opportunity to go to the ford performance racing school and learn how to drive it right when we were out there developing the course the engineers there were telling us that hey we had to put a couple good you know first slow speed laps and then into it so that the transmission can learn how we were doing it at that inside rovel at charlotte tell me about the brakes are just an incredible i mean if you think about it um you know what we learned in the gt500 zero to a hundred to zero on the deck of an aircraft carrier right so the folks that were developing that program worked on this braking system as well those six piston brembo calipers in there places you and i don't want to go at night we want those six pistons on that car the stopping distance is absolutely amazing and repeatable well you know i like that sort of boutique engineering where you make the best thing you make and if somebody else makes a better break let's get there somebody makes a better tire you put the michelin you know.
I mean that's it just it's what an instrument in the old days you would buy the mustang and then you would go somewhere and buy and have them put on you know now it all just comes from from one it works with the partners jay and from ford performance where you know we work with not only the recaro the brembo but these michelin pilot sport cup twos you know the four s's are in the base car the handling package car gets the the cup twos um all of those partners work with our engineering development to develop it specifically for the vehicle right so it's not just you grab the thing off the shelf that brembo makes the brembo engineers and and you know and the recaro seat folks will literally work to develop that specifically for this vehicle to maximize that performance and we're really happy with the partners i like this seat it's like a halfway between like when i got my gt350 it had the butter collection you know i said i said give me my stock seats i put my stock seats in because i'm in traffic and i use it a lot and if i'm sitting like this all the time yeah you know whereas this is really a nice compromise it's got it's got enough support but it's still a comfortable chair and you know obviously fmvss compliant so can hold you in while you're doing the lateral turns like you're up at the streets of willow or big willow it'll hold you in there plus then when you're on the five coming south you'll feel comfortable in it yeah i mean it you know it's it's interesting it really is the best of the gt350 with whatever comfort items it's not as hardcore as that it's got enough so the families can think of it as a family car and you can drive it yeah you can drive it right from here right up to the streets of willow yeah literally do the adjustments for your tire pressure adjust the camber plates if you want because it comes with the camber plates on it that you can adjust for track use then flip it out yourself re loosen them re-push them back in and then drive back home again now the mach 1 name has been dorman for what about 30 something years um well we did have one in the 0 304 right it was that it was the the last of the gen 4 mustangs that's right i guess right true yeah it was those last two years um and other than that yeah it was back to the 60s if you think about we did have the little mustang 2 version but if you think about it what mach 1 meant at the time was you know about breaking the speed of sound right it's nice when you think of big willow right up there that's where the sound barrier was broken that was about personalization and arrow if you look at the front splitter on this j that actually puts that down force on there hundreds of iterations to work on that arrow to make it you know the best downforce possible with that front splitter i pulled into a fast food place and i thought well i'm i'll park a little bit behind the thing just in case and i get up and run i was a quarter of an inch from from the curve i mean that really.
It does stick out a bit it it is proud but functional yeah so when we ship it to the dealer that actually comes in the car itself right because on the shipping piece in there but that is actually functional not only on the street but for the arrow when you're on the track and that pretty much snaps i mean and you're gonna you're gonna scrape it and it's but it's easy enough to replace yeah it's it's literally you and i could do it right from underneath here that's what i love about the mclaren p1 it has the same thing if you uh crack the splitter you can either get a new splitter or a z06 corvette they're the same carbon fiber they're about the same price but you know that's what i like about american manufacturing this is the equal the bmw embassy or any of those cars i mean it really is a people yeah mr luna like that girl but you know something if don't knock it till you tried it because it's really good i mean i i was just stunned at how well it handled how much fun it was at willow and how easy it was to maneuver and then just drive home again yeah carol was into the if you remember the democratization of performance right he just didn't want it to happen to be that high end and our engineering team whether it's on the shelby gt500s or 350s or the ford performance team we want to take those learnings from the gt350 and 500 and then bring them into the five-liter version of it and so all those learnings basically democratizes performance so that as we learn and it gets less expensive to do we can put them in a car like this let's open up the hood let's see what's in the same spot there we go and those are functional vents aren't they yep change the pressure vents well that's what i like there's no more phony yeah you know drawn on vents or any other kind of nonsense you know everything is there for a reason now and this almost looks aftermarket it's a big cold air kit yeah no that's great that's fabulous you know i never realized how much under under hood temperatures affect things because i did that seven liter ford a while back yep and that has the big roush 427 in it blah blah blah and one day i'm on the freeway and just i just go oh no what's this i pull over and i open the hood and the wave of heat i mean it literally whoa like that and then we used the 3d printer we made a cold air package and brought it in over here and it was like a night and day night and day i mean it was but i mean how hot it was under that hood it was just and then you realize the engine isn't pulling and all that it's like you breathe in hot air you're not going to run less efficient exactly exactly and so the sensors that are in there now sense what the ambient temperature is of the air inlet and adjusts the calibration for it you talk about the 427 roush back on the gen 5 mustang they used to put in the back i don't know if you've ever saw like the the 427rs that they used to do they had an ice pack back here all right but you could literally pour ice into on the track so that the air was coming through again just changing that air temperature to make the engine more efficient kids always laugh me because i call this the monte carlo bar because because my 63 falcon that's..jpg)
I think that was the first kai ever saw had that brace yep and they would put it on to do the rallies and it was the monte carlo rally at once so that became the one bar and people come on talking about monte carlo and then i explained like when was that 1963 what how long ago was that i just forget about it so i just call it a brace all right yeah it's a strut tower brace and what it does is it improves the torsional rigidity under stress right right well cool let's shut this again let's move around to the back of the vehicle i like the new design too you know i love i love this is the full window the thing drives me nuts about the newer camaro was it was yeah you know just a wendy single padding and that's all you know where's this you can put you know it's just a little more greenhouse i like a lot of green and a little bit better vision right when you're on the track that's what you're looking for and on the streets here obviously with the freeways being so crowded that does give you more of a vision and then it does change the greenhouse so that you can get that sloping all the way back from the windshield back the mustang ever have a sunroof i'm trying to remember yeah there were some of the old topsy and sunrooms i know yeah um we don't do that anymore no no we did have the glass roof remember 08 i think probably through 10 we had the glass roof that you could put on there with a little sun shade but yeah we haven't done we haven't done the moon roof in a while but you know you can see some of the things in here from the from the back jay that is this is the handling package right this is the gurney flap right and the gurney flap you literally put on you know you don't want to be necessarily running that on when you're running on the 405 but it improves the downforce so the arrow with the front splitter and the gurney flap in the back changes the downforce so that it is better going through the air on the track cool let's open the trunk let me get the key the key the fob let's see you got here there you go all right you got some room in there you do have the room in there and and i mean it's not something that you're going to be you know packing and moving when your friends ask you to ask you to help move but it does fit the stuff in there from a track standpoint that you need the jack's the tool the equipment um if you want to take a golfing you can still fit a set of golf clubs no but this would be the one where you want to put the replacement calipers and rotors in here and a sheet of plywood you can't buy plywood anymore it's too expensive so forget it you just buy a couple of two by fours and put that in there from the back one of the things that we're really proud of jay and i'm sure you heard the noise the visceral experience of mustang um these are four and a half inch pipes right so these are about the same size pipes that you have on your gt500 right but.
If you see in there there's that perforation through there yeah in the back that changes its sound characteristics the sound and the feel of mustang is extremely important and they spend a ton of time because it doesn't have that flat plane right so it doesn't have that high revving throaty sound but it has a unique burble right on four and a half inch tips that come out that just is just a sec and what does this weigh um it's just under 4000 minutes right so it's still under that four thousand pounds see that's an honest answer thank you yeah i mean you know it's not a lightweight vehicle but the you know the pony cars have never really been uh but it is an efficient balance of weight well there really are no lightweight vehicles anymore not what we think of you know we think of under 20 under 2 500 pounds yeah you know and of course you've got all the safety protections you've got the door guard beam in here and and you and you've got how many airbags on these i don't know the exact number you've got the side front and then the dash panel piece as well as the side air curtain i don't know how many actual bags that comes with it but again like when you said on the recaro's even if you got those recaros the fully functional airbag system in there which makes it really safe is that a new horse uh no it's not the new horse no it's not a new horse um you know we came out with the mustang maki right that one has a little bit different horse on it than more aerodynamic this one um and it was a hungarian cavalry master who did the design of the first pony i learned this from from jack telneck he spoke i don't learn much about mustang anymore but.
I'll tell you about that guy i know who you mean his name is begin with a k and he was an olympian yes and he was in the olympics in the 1930s he was hungarian yes when the olympics were canceled since he was an equestrian olympian he was he was uh inducted into the service and he was put in the calvary division and his commander was killed and since he was an olympian he was made the chief of the head guy captain whatever you wanna call it and he led the last charge in modern warfare of men on horseback against tanks oh my gosh and got they all got blown out but here's the part they don't tell you he was on the other side he wasn't hard he wasn't ours so i couldn't care later but then like america we forgive and forget he emigrated to america he went to work and he designed that horse yeah yeah but it's a great service i mean imagine charging with a sword against tanks firing i mean i'd rather have this horse we're riding on back in the day and you know why the horse goes this direction and not that direction no because when lee iacocca when the mustang came out the designers in detroit he said no no go west young man that's who was that not horatio yeah but the idea of go west for new thinking yeah i want the horse to be facing west california where all the young people the young muslims would yeah yeah and that's why it goes that way but that's that's kind of interesting but yeah that you're the only other guy i've met that knows the story of the horse so telnet told us the story you know the design chief from ford who retired right and we were up at the hall of fame in the automotive hall of fame and we started doing you know a storytelling and told us how he carved it out of wood instead of sketched it it was an homage to his horse yeah it was an homage to the to his horse that he wrote in that battle yeah.
Which is cool yeah cool stories on it yeah always mustang stories always have a lot of spam i like the new shape it was starting for a while it's looking a little bulbous to me now it seems more muscular and i this is always my the rear quarter panel on almost every car is my favorite part these rear haunches right here i like this crease line here you know it gives it a sense of gives it that athletic like you know when you're in that haunch is up in your stance right you get that that powerful please don't do that again i get it it's great well can we uh can we take it for a while i'd love to take it for a ride once you get behind the driver's seat and this is for you this is our antenna now that's the serious satellite yeah uh puck in there and based off of how we had to do it to be aerodynamic it looks slightly like a shark fin in there yeah but to get the service and the satellite service that comes standard with the car uh that's where the position of the puck had to be so remember they used to be the old flat puck oh yeah and and now based actually yeah and ten remember the antenna was the dealer would take a drill and they would drill and put a hole right here with the antenna and then it would rust all around right around the outside yeah we used to do the photo shoots we'd actually have to take the antenna off because it ruined the line of the picture also i'm glad they intended because i remember a kid walking down the streets in new york and some gang guys who ripped the antenna off and just started listening whip you in jesus horrible it's hard to beat a guy with that let's see what she does here.
Great sound and this has electric power steering correct yeah he passed yep you know something it is excellent it's really very good because that an america that you see me my thing i always felt like i was it was a high spot you know i go what's that weird now it just feels very go-kart like very dark and you can adjust it can't you yep and in the steer in the modes it actually does adjust that e-pass so the modes do calibration for your engine the magneride suspension the exhaust and the e-pass and roll stability control too yeah something i like about all-american manufacturing is they're keeping the same body style longer just refining it smoothing out the rough edges i mean you know everybody whether it i mean dodgers use that challenger body since 2008 but this latest version is tight it doesn't creak yeah you know same thing like mustang i mean i can remember used to get a little bit of hood flex back in the 60s and all the kind whereas this just feels like like a solid billet piece and the engineers are enthusiasts like us right right and you know if you take an engineer who's an enthusiast you give them tools you give them track time and the you know the time to learn so they've been learning since the 2015. they're going to continue to refine that to make it more fun to drive you know the funny part or it's almost discouraging is you learn all about cams and timing and then electric cars come in you realize you know nothing you know you need the laptop to plug in well that needs to work just to understand what makes the between a high performance electric motor i mean we all know you know uh bigger display you know what okay different carburation headers injection whatever whereas with electric i don't know what it is bigger magnets whatever you know it's just funny to be a novice again and start all over yeah it's fun to learn because that performance i mean even if you think of like the old you know wheel curs based engines right that add 100 horsepower to it that's all you know new fun stuff for enthusiasts to learn and what is the epa mileage thing on this it's it is in tier one gas guzzler.
Oh it is a guest for the manual transmission okay for the automatic it's not okay um the manual yeah it's and i'll get the actual label in it but it's terrible i'll say this let me put it there now this one even with 480 horsepower this doesn't pay a gas cut yes this exact one does not right yeah the manual transmission one does that tremec box you know um before the manual transmissions used to get the best gas mileage right but the way you know we're gearing that traffic box it's more for performance than fuel economy fuel economy is not one of the top 10 reasons why you buy a mustang is this a tremec uh no this is our 10r this is the 10r that you know that this developed in-house uh this is the 10r was jointly developed between gm and ford and then they each manufacture their own versions of it i forget what year that was but like maybe 2016. look but yeah this is our own internal transmission and then yeah it's drop on it and it'll hold that rpm in that mode because we're in sport plus mode now right um so it's gonna hold the shifting points longer um and then it adapts over time to hold it even longer if you keep driving it that aggressively and what's the between sport plus and track so best way to describe it is um it's going to catch you a little bit quicker when you're in the sport plus mode right um it's the more fun way around a racetrack as opposed to the fastest way oh you mean this bar so your back end your backhand will slide out a little bit yeah yeah um but the track mode is the best for actually getting the best track times sport plus will give you maybe not the perfect calibration for the track but a good combination between street fun and legal street fun and yeah track driving it's like real life the show offers stuff looks better but it actually doesn't do anything it's not a formula drift no it's it yeah it's not the rtr mustang from vaughan hanging its back end out tell the burbank and la streets are getting back to normal the traffic was getting awful yeah kind of missed the corona virus the shorter commute times yeah it showed a commute you just walk into the kitchen to the bedroom yeah it's nice though to get into the events again you know the the enthusiasts who love doing this stuff that pent up demand for people who want to be around cars together well the thing i find amazing is the base motors are now more powerful than the most powerful version.
When i was a kid you know when i was a kid i've had that 65 shelby for 35 years at least 35 almost 40. almost 40 years and with 306 horsepower that was the most powerful thing you can get and then you buy the turbo four-cylinder which is pretty much the space and that's 306 i mean it's like oh yeah and then the hypo version of it is horsepower yeah that's funny a little bit different than the the ones that you were at working at wilmington forward back well you know it's funny i drove they dropped off two mustangs a couple of years ago yeah that's a while ago and the high performance v8 and the four-cylinder turbo and i drove the v8 everywhere and i said to myself well you know i better put some miles on the four symbols yeah they're gonna think i'm not yeah and you know something i loved it i loved it better than the v8 because in the hills it really handled it was lighter i mean i was stunned at how what a nice driving car was and it wasn't as fast if you had a car pretty close pretty close i mean a little bit different exhaust note but yeah like the so the high performance package of the ecoboost where we took the focus rs motor yeah and you know turned it sideways so that it was rear-wheel drive configuration and it's 332 horsepower it's 200 plus pounds lighter on the front end right so on a short road course yeah that where that weight really makes a difference those cars i'm a knife gear now it drops it down a third you know it's interesting i i guess only in uh when you're in normal or touring mode you get the 10th speed yeah you don't get that in sports it does eventually i think if you're on the highway and you set the cruise control off of it it might go up into 10th i don't know the exact strategy on there but yeah normal it'll try to do it for most fuel efficient in sport plus it's going to give you that shifting for that fun to drive aspect of it yeah we're talking about when i launched the 05 right i was on so i went from you know the svt 0304 terminator and i did the product marketing job on the on the gen 5. our v8 our 4.6 liter had 300 horsepower right now out of you know the displacement of the supercharger on the gt500 is 2.65 liters right it's bigger than our engine that's producing 300 horsepower it's really the golden age of supercars it is and you know and nobody wants to be the first second place car you know so our engineers want to build the best car and the camaro engineers want to build the best one and not you guys want it to go in a straight line really fast and you know they everybody's competing against each other so you have that technology you have the enthusiasts that want to work on it and you know that is what's giving you this technological performance advancement i you know i'm so proud of american engineering i remember the 80s when you couldn't even get a car with a back window to roll down remember oh no now the back windows don't roll down really we don't have that technology we can walk on the moon but we can't it has evolved so much and you know the 60s everybody remembers it fondly and they were great performance vehicles for their day but it's evolved to get to the point where i know it's funny you said that but we did a thing tim allen in the show tim got a 67 gto tri-power everything and we just went and rented out one of those v6 four-door and and it won it was faster it was quicker off the line you know the gto sounded great but it went oh oh anyway okay that's that's the you realize 50 years is a long time in engineering you know six or seven years i mean the parts that i like about this over my 350. but the steering is so sharp and so smart and.
I'm just astounded how nice this is something i do like is the uh the chassis plate on the dash there i have it in my 350s mine is number 36 because they built 36 and 15. and what number is this one so this one is 130 and what we do is the chassis badge can be different than the vin badge but the chassis is what the number that's assigned to it as it's going down the assembly line so it's unique and specific to this vehicle right and the build timing and we've done it on all of our performance derivatives so the hypo mustang the high performance package mustang the four cylinder has it gt 350 has it gt500 has it bullet had it um and now we're doing it kind of recognizes you know kind of gives it that old like like the old carol shelby mustang badge right right it kind of ties it specifically to the vehicle i just like how planted it feels all four wheels are on the ground no flexing no squeaking nope no pushing squeak no nothing i'll tell you the sound of the engine and the mustang exhaust note is important yeah yeah like when we did the gen 5 um we literally had you know members of the ford family come in and listen to what it was coming off the 4-6 because when we went from the 5-liter back to the 46 to get you know in the gen five that exhaust note is important and it's important to us i like these toggle switches i like toggles as well as you know that was kind of um more originally from that uh when we were doing the the gen 6 the design in 15 the you know the plane type mustang tie-in the toggle switches that were on the planes that you have right or the toggle switches here but they're functional and they're they're easy you know tactile wise when you're driving to be able to flip it you know without having to move your head off the road wheels are nice size i like the steering wheel yeah it doesn't have the flat spot like the gt350 that you have on the bottom right um but it still has that tactile feel in the grip for when you're on when you're on a track it's not the alcantara but the leather wrap..jpg)
I mean but you're still talking 7 400 rpm redline now your gt350 was 82.50 yeah i mean but that's still high up there to me that's the craziest thing to me because whenever i hit five grand i got better i've got another three thousand and it's again it's not the dual clutch like on the on the gt500 or flying but it still has the ability for you to be able to do the shifting if i mean it really handles terrific so when you buy the gt350 or gt500 or mach 1 you get the class the ford performance racing school class that we call track attack right and so we give you know lead follow on the on the inside roll hole we do some of the drag strip exercises and then at the end of the day we give them a hot lap right from a professional instructor right and what the fun thing is is to see their faces uh you know because they thought they were pushing the car hard all right yeah and then they actually get to see how it operates in the hand of the professional and their faces just light up and it kind of shows how they can go from that basic you know beginning driver all the way to the professionals and make you feel like you were enjoying it and driving it well right and you almost can't break it and then on the manual now on the tremec we have rev matching put in so you don't even have to do the heel toe anymore i mean you still can and a lot of us still do it but literally the electronic rev matching in that tremec box puts that in the rpm that you need to be to be back in you know smoothly back into the accelerator well jim thanks for bringing it i normally ask for a stick i just wanted to see what 10 speeds of the mustang was like and it's fascinating and you don't pay a gas because of tax you get pretty good gas mileage and of course you got your paddles here so this has been a great weekend thanks let me put 250 something miles on this thing.
So i appreciate it those are 250 good miles that ford motor company appreciates you doing that we're glad you had fun that's when you know your life is good when they appreciate you putting miles on that car thanks you guys see you next week uh. #Americanmonster #FORDMUSTANG #MUSACLECAR #MACH1 
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