5th Jan 2011, 13:13

I think the major issue is that you have a major issue with anyone else's opinions on here, and continually go on about why you own your V6 Mustang. Like I said, I don't care, never have cared and never will care what anyone else drives. I also never claimed a V6 Mustang was not a Mustang. Unfortunately they have even put a 4 cylinder in the Mustang but it was still a Mustang. Ford's choice, not mine... but I still don't care.

The Mustang goes like this. V6 base and premium... then up to a GT and GT premium, and then to the top of the line Shelby. A Mustang GT is a higher end car that offers more than the V6 car. This is a fact, not an opinion. If you don't need the extra HP or features on the V8, that is your preference. However, the GT would not be priced higher than the V6 if this was not true. It wouldn't make sense. All any GT owner is saying is that they would never consider downgrading to a V6.

Your friends... did they trade in current model GT's for the V6 cars? I seriously doubt it. You are the one that had the old Foxbody GT right? Yes, the new V6 performs somewhat close to the old 5.0 and it is newer looking, smoother and more refined so it would be considered an upgrade to buy the newer V6 car. Take someone that owns a 2011 GT. Would they consider ever purchasing a V6 car after owning that car? Only if they are getting three tickets a week, they lost their job and had to take a major pay cut or some other unforeseen economic disaster happened to them. When you bought your old GT back in the Fox days, why didn't you look at the 4 cylinder car and buy that one instead? While you owned the GT, did you wish you had a 4 cylinder instead during any of the years the Foxbody was still around? Most likely not, or you would have bought one. This is the same scenario. What if someone told you that you wasted money on your Foxbody GT because their 4 cylinder was cheaper to insure and cheaper to run. You would have told them to take a hike and mind their own business right? Okay then!

So now you are over the performance, and just want the looks right? Well not everyone is you. Ford surely wouldn't have developed a new 5.0 if people weren't interested in it. SVT would not exist either if this was the case. These are multi billion dollar installations all for the sake of pure performance. You can go on about "no one can tell a V6 form a GT" and this that and the other but you are wrong. Companies like Ford don't invest such an insane amount of money on something that is not going to be noticed by anyone. That makes absolutely no sense. Maybe you and your group of friends just want the looks. I don't have any friends into cars that can't instantly spot a GT, and especially a Shelby Mustang on the road.

People have become defensive because you keep going on about how they are wasting their money, and you pay less insurance and gas and so on. You seem to think you are some kind of authority on how much is too much. This is why people are telling you to go buy a Fusion. It is cheaper to buy and own than your V6 Mustang, so did you spend so much on the Mustang?

I'd like to hear your reasoning for owning a sports car at all if the GT is soooo expensive. You do understand that the Mustang GT is by far the best bang for the buck on the market right? Whether you can use its full potential is irrelevant, as once again your V6 will be over the speed limit in about 8 seconds or so too. To me you have wasted the most money by purchasing a V6 loaded up, and then adding more expense to it in add-ons. I most likely paid less for my GT then you did for your V6. My insurance is a little higher, yes, but look what I've got to play around with!