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Ford introduced the Mustang in 1964 that's 50 years of continuous production for this model only handful of cars can claim that kind of longevity and if we ignore the Mustang - from the mid 70s pretty much every generation has been good and this newest generation is really amazing this is the 2015 Ford Mustang GT now GT means we have a 5 liter v8 under the hood and that's similar in size to the 302 cubic inch v8 engine that Ford introduced in 1968 so there's a lot of history in this car of course with this generation Ford dropped some of their retro looks from the past 10 years we have a smoother rear-end but we still have this really brawny hood we also have the GT performance pack on this car so that means these 19-inch black wheels and six piston Brembo brakes up front you really need that stopping power with this piece we've got these optional Recaro seats in the cabin here they have these big bolsters on the side that makes getting in and out a little difficult and if you're anything more than an average build these are gonna be uncomfortable you're not really gonna fit very well you'll want the standard seats these are also manually adjustable not power adjustable on the stack here we have the switch gear which looks metal it's plastic but it looks good it fits the performance character this car we also have a white engine start button that also looks pretty cool plus the 6-speed manual shifter really brawny shifter very mechanical feeling and looking for it emphasizes the performance character of this car even on the speedometer it says ground speed is if this car is gonna take flight you don't want it to do that and in the center display we have what's called track apps amongst all the trip computer options and stuff like that I can control the track apps with these buttons on the left side of the steering wheel that gives us things like acceleration timers ticking measure 0 to 60 braking performance can even activate launch control from this panel here it says track only on here in red so Ford doesn't want you to use these on public roads keep that in mind in the center - here we have this big touchscreen this shows the MyFord Touch infotainment system we got hands-free phone navigation digital audio sources it's not a great system we review this a hundred times the response is pretty slow but it'll get job done but it'll frustrate you too we also have on this card the optional 12 speaker shaker audio system that comes with an equipment package which also has blind spot monitoring system I like the cider system it's a good package to get especially with that blind spot monitoring system that's kind of the point of getting the GT this v8 sounds really good and it just got burbles along all day when you're cruising and gets a nice controlled growl when you get up the revs puts that port in thirty five horsepower 400 pound-feet of torque but with the six-speed manual even with that kind of power it's really controllable it's easy to control the power modulate the power and nets to my mind the mark of a really good car something you can keep in control of and that doesn't just translate to city traffic and stuff like that that also translates to track time with this new Mustang Ford actually got rid of those solid rear axle that used to use in this model through a rear independent suspension and this is just really fine actually it handles amazingly well it just keeps good grip in the corners you can feel it shift around a little bit but it's nice and contained the suspension is pretty stiff in this car which is great for performance stuff for taking the corners fast and that's so much for ride comfort we've got an electric power steering rig here and because of that I can actually change my steering modes with one of these toggle switches I showed you earlier and I've been keeping it on sport mode it feels just fine it's easy enough to turn Ford also included a definite lose control on this particular example not a great thing to have with a manual transmission because as soon as you get the clutch it disengages cruise control and then you're back controlling the speed yourself so that's really something that works much better with an automatic transmission which we don't have with this car all right let's price out our 2015 ford mustang GT face price for this GP premium model like we have here is thirty six thousand three hundred dollars we have that GP performance package that's twenty four ninety five and we also add the 401 a equipment package seventeen ninety five that gives us the shaker audio blind spot detection a couple of other things we leave off the Recaro seats and we leave off the adaptive cruise control we don't really need those or want those so we end up with twenty one thousand four and fifteen dollars total with destination if you want a Ford Mustang then you know you'll want one it's pretty easy to figure out you go for the GT if you want a muscle car but if you just want a cruiser get the four-cylinder turbo EcoBoost engine cuz that's pretty good too you