2011 Ford Mustang GT
Hi, I’m Joe Wiesenfelder with Cars.com. Recently I had the opportunity to drive just about every version of the 2011 Ford Mustang just behind me here. Now for 2010, Ford made a number of updates, 2011 came along they said they’re adding a couple of new engines. We thought small change, right? It’s actually a big change and it doesn’t stop with the engines.
This is a Mustang GT convertible. As a GT it has a new 5 Liter V8 engines up from 4.6 Liter. It adds almost a hundred horsepower over the previous GT up to 412. And the torque is up to 390 pound-feet. It also happens to look really good. Now that’s a lot of power but the V6 engine is probably more impressive. It’s now a 3.7 Liter instead of a 4. It is up 95 horsepower to 305. That’s roughly what the 2010 V8 produced. More powers definitely better but half of a mileage but it actually goes up to and the V8 it’s up 1 mile gallon city to highway. In the V6 it can be automatic, 3 miles per gallon city, 7 miles per gallon on the highway.
Now there are two new transmissions; manual and automatic, both 60. It’s now the previous standard manual transmission with the 5-speed. This one feels really good, short brows, kind of low knob. Now because this is a premium trim level it has this aluminum ball shifter which is nice but even the standard ones is quite good.
Now Ford made even more improvements with noise treatments to the hood, the fenders, the ceiling, the transmission tunnels, the pillars, pretty much all over the place to help keep road noise, tire noise, wind noise out and one positive aspect of that aside from the fact that it’s quiet not just for a sports car but for any car is that you can hear the engines better and the new engines sound terrific even the V6 sounds like a Mustang.
Well, a lot of nice options both package and standalone including some performance ones. There’s a Brembo Brake Package for the GT, you can get similar packages for the V6 including 19-inch wheels etcetera, summer tires, and there probably about three or four different Spoilers you can get now. One of the best options is the Spoiler Delete which I think looks the best.
Now Ford is offering a number of different rear axle ratios for quicker launches of the line. Now, if you consider, you can get a V6 Mustang for just over $22,000.00 and you can get things like a rear axle ration, performance package etcetera. Even on a base version that’s a lot of performance car for not a lot of money.
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