Gadgetory

I'm gonna show you three things I think you need to know about the Mustang when you boil it all the way down first of all the styling very different still a Mustang the interior a lot more tech and then finally a new engine when they said really he doesn't belong it a Mustang but well find out it actually does what makes a Mustang look like one so beginning at the front end we've got this grille that kind of tips forward and and pushes down the road that really gives it this assertive look we call the sharkbite grill and we were looking at how that was on the original which slightly tilts forward and sticks out in the middle it does and then as you move down the body side we've got these lines through the bodies yet here that really help to lengthen out the body so if it pulls your eye through the body it helps to compress the car visually takes a lot of visual mass out of the car here wider you're lowering it the car seems a little more compact in terms of its its mass it looks less chunky yeah so a couple things we did with our with our partners in crime our engineering community we we lowered the roof by almost an inch and a quarter in overall height and that's just at the centerline of the roof right you move to the rear decklid there's about 70 millimetres of heights taken out of that so that's almost three inches of height yeah this intrigues me because most cars we see today have an ever-rising rump than up here and why is that and why isn't this design trends design trends of you know kind of pushed more design wedge into the car you know the original Mustangs or very linear very stable in their sideview appearance so if you look at this car compared to the outgoing car this has a lot of stability visually inside you we pulled the wheels out on the rear 70 millimeters in total that allows us to get a lot more what we call muscularity are the haunch the rear muscle the whole vehicle the current car has what we call a body colour b-pillar so it's integrated body into the sheet metal here but we took that out we call it a unified diello graphic stands for daylight opening that complements what we call the fastback profile if there is one thing the have to do when you design a Mustang to keep it a must what one thing could you not do without and make this car if I can follow me the tri-bar tail lamps are quintessential Mustang design Q of course and without tri-bar tail lamps it's not a Mustang this is raising some eyebrows is raising some eyebrows but this is a brand new 2.3 liter EcoBoost it's new to not only Mustang but it's actually new to the EcoBoost family more horsepower torque definitely than outgoing v6 for folks that don't know and ego boosters having a turbocharger and direct injection that's correct on an engine that typically is a Ford they can act like a six that's right the power of a six a fuel economy over four now these are not technologies that are new to you guys direct injection and turbo charging what can you do to tell people that no you're wrong when you say there's no replacement for displacement that's the old mantra especially among Mustang lovers well look I mean it depends on what you're shooting for right when you want fuel efficiency and power and and and this is the technology this is where it's at and this is where the future is at don't you find modern buyers especially younger modern buyers are less aware of how many cylinders they've got and what configuration they're in no they could almost care less how many cylinders they have yeah they want a good performing car that's still true yeah but they definitely want to be more responsible they want to be more green right because the Mustang needs good crack of the throttle response that's one of that kind of car what have you done to minimize turbo lag well that's what sets this EcoBoost apart from our other EcoBoost engines we have a twin-scroll turbo in here that's new for you guys right so instead of one single scroll you got two to it you know to school yeah and then we're also there's an in the exhaust manifold there's an integrated three port exhaust manifold and what that means is we're taking the four-cylinder cylinder number one yeah and we're putting it out through one port cylinders two and three through another port and cylinder four through another port so that turbo is always exposed to the pulses it needs to spool up absolutely for the first time you have an independent rear suspension in the main production Mustang what's the big deal there for the consumer says I don't know it seemed to ride fine before that integral linked rear suspension is gonna allow us to continue to tie down the performance of the must they get it even tighter and better performing but give you better ride primary and secondary ride so when you want to ride to work on Monday and I'm looking to maybe go around the racetrack yeah you're gonna get a better ride I heard some Auto code primary and secondary ride does that mean so prime it's it's the primary ride you know when you're the bumps that you hit when you're going down there and then secondary ride is sort of what happens after you hit that bump so oh interesting yeah so it's the way that we handle the impacts and then how we handle it after these waves that go through the car that's correct from the crummy roads we all drive on that's right and when you have a solid beam back there you can excite the car much differently than when you have an excited elegant word yeah so again we're taking Mustang higher performance but also improving the refinement as well all right well you said there are four key things that make the inside of a Mustang the inside of a Mustang very much so looking at a Mustang talking to the customer we knew it had to be a symmetrical instrument panel we knew it had to have the double brow they're looking for a specific thing in a Mustang they want the big analog gauges in front of the driver goes back to year one exactly and one of the things we heard time and time again honest premium materials Ford's taken something of a beating over its myford touch interface now Mustang gets the technology for the first time but also for the first time Ford has moved several the most used functions out of the touch interface and back on the traditional knobs and buttons clustered below it everything in this this interior is tied into you know the aircraft feel we've got toggle switches push button starters new push-button starter that that start is on it that like is like that on every Mustang now we've got a storage space here at the base of the center so you know we heard that from the customer there's a power port there there's a USB port so there's a place to put your phone here yeah look where the shift lever is look where the cupholders are they're shifted to the side you clear towards the passenger so there you have your weight you're clear you're not fighting these things while you're driving then I see them symmetrically dropped in here sometimes right down the midline but it's right where your wants to go to grab that shift you shifted them over so they're out of the way when you're driving the other thing is the steering wheel is actually a little smaller than today's wheel and if you notice the the metal on today's wheel actually wraps all the way around the outside well we heard time and time again in a hot climate in a cold climate that's not great to put your hands on interesting so we redesigned this so your hands are right here and it's nice and soft and you're feeling the leather when you're driving the car paddles for the first time two paddles for the first time yes great great feature and just you know it's all about this visceral experience with with flying an airplane if this feels like the cockpit of a plane metallized surfaces here for the controls also well all the mustangs said that is that a trim level thing no no all the mustangs will have this it's a nice touch yeah the only thing that changes actually you know sometimes you'll get a smaller screen with with different controls different technology in the head but pretty much it's all the same like this when someone gets in this car who's got a current generation car we the first thing is they're gonna notice oh they're gonna notice that no way out it out yeah you love this way just I just think this is going to make a huge statement for us the glove box itself is actually we cut we call this an active glove box it's it's a first for Ford yeah the airbag module is actually encapsulated in the glove box so we were able to eliminate a hundred millimeters off of the face of the instrument panel which gave us this beautiful form and we kind of keyed it so this would have been real chunky up here exactly real heavy across this surface area right here which you'll see in today's car the speaker's used to be these big jutting things that came out yes I always hated them yes now I'm not calling anybody out but you got them nice and flat here you didn't have to do that why did you do that that was all about making the interior a little bit bigger for the occupant look what we've done here we pushed the speakers in we push this forward 100 millimeters it actually tapers down off this a little bit we've tapered this instead of you know we made the best use of the space that we possibly could yeah to really make it a more room a big car no it's not but I think you really feel the difference when you get in this with what we've done you