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@oddfish: Hey, at least MT rewrites their press releases…
camp6ell
@Ray Wert: Okay, well, I didn’t see anything so bad in this article? And also, I think it’s worth giving this V6 a solid shake before declaring it the Jersey Shore gals ride of choice. It’s got a solid shot, even more so in the rumored by Jalopnik itself, V6 Sports Pack trim. It’s hard not to love (or at least dare to love, with all hope) a 300 hp 6 speed car with a factory LSD. Maybe I won’t pay $25k for it vs the $30k competitors out there, but I’ll be overjoyed in 5 years to pay well under $10k for one to hoon around in!
For now though, let’s see the V6 mustang Sport Pack go against the Genesis 2.0T GT, you guys set that one up please, I know the buff books will set up the standard big 3 ‘Merican lead-sled shoot out, but these oddball comparisons don’t happen too much, and they turn out to be the ones that matter the most in my mind. That’s where I see the awesomeness that could be brought back to Jalopnik.
mec011
I’m going to go on the record as predicting that this car (v6 and all) will be THE car to beat in the 2025 24 Hours of Lemons series.
hypo
@chowderseal: I don’t think anyone here (commenter or jalop-uber-writer) is jealous of a *ride* in a V6 mustang. Seriously, rewriting Ford’s spec sheet after a sit in the passenger seat of a car is lameness, pure and simple.
hypo
@philibuster: that would work well for me =]
CahbonFiabah
@HideyoshiJP: Oh, you thought I meant the girls’ silk panties?
RäcinG73™
maybe i’m an unintelligent sheep but i liked watching that.
CahbonFiabah
This exemplifies why I don’t think you can properly import Top Gear and have American presenters.
HideyoshiJP
Arthur St. Antoine needs to have the parenthesis keys pried off his keyboard. His abuse of the novelty feature makes that article completely unreadable.
wohho
@RäcinG73™: It’s got the word “Mustang” on the back. I’ve found that’s all you need if they’re going to be impressed by something like that.
HideyoshiJP
@pauljones: I propose a new Jalopnik feature: Jalopniks drive Jalopies. Commenters get to drive a press car, and the writers write about it. Yeah, I’m lazy.
philibuster
@Jeb_Hoge: I agree sir, this doesn’t strike me as a hairdresser’s V6. This might be near the top of the list for my next car now. Figure in that the mustang after-market is enormous and therefore relatively cheap, and I am damn near sold.
Engineerman
@Ray Wert: I’m wanting for press cars.
pauljones
@Engineerman: I think it’ll be pretty awesome regardless of how the reviews go. The Duratec, when coupled to a manual transmission and especially with proper pipes, has always been a nice, snarly powerplant, and Ford has shown they can build a great chassis, so I’d save the money over the V8 (for the first time ever).
Jeb_Hoge
@Jude Butler: I actually think C&D has started to reverse its slide, though.
Jeb_Hoge
@philibuster: Thus, the worst.
Ray Wert
@chowderseal: I’ve had a CTS-V, a Mercedes S400 and a Ford Taurus SHO this month. I don’t think I’m wanting for press cars. Neither is the rest of the team.
Almost all of us have turned down jobs at the buff books.
Ray Wert
I’d rather watch a comparison like this on a car I might actually purchase than watch the most extensive review of an outrageously overpriced car I’ll never own from Italy or Germany.
usa1
Y’all didn’t like the use of “Stinky Cologne?”
DonLuc
Since none of you are driving press cars on a daily basis, it’s easy to get jealous at major magazines. MT isn’t perfect in its reviews, and neither is Jalopnik. But please. Any of you would take a job at a place like MT in a second. But like the author you’d rather bitch at these print publications on a blog, instead of understanding what it takes to actually achieve something in this industry. And I’m not a mag staffer but an aspiring one. And I read Jalopnik almost daily.
chowderseal
@Bret: I subscribe to Automobile. In my opinion, it’s the least biased and best writing.
Motor Trend is by far the worst. Terrible writing. Frequently dead-wrong on historical facts and current specs.
Their pencil sketch-heavy future cars section is usually so laughably delusional that I’m not sure they’ve been even close to reality in years.
MT is a profoundly ridiculous mess of a publication. C/D’s quality has dropped, as well.
Jude Butler
Ray seems a little disheartend at this.
Don’t worry now Ray, it’s going to feel worse when they do an actual comparo.
PowerTryp Reply Master
I can’t wait until they compare the ’11 GT with the Camaro and bitch about gas mileage.
oddfish
I saw two sentences of comparison.
philibuster
Ummm, it’s not a ‘comparo’ if only one car is involved.
Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
So the new V6 will have dual exhaust, eh? And it’ll reach 7,000 screamin’ RPM’s? But how will it help you remove the silk panties?
RäcinG73™
Thanks for linking that. I had forgotten just how bad the “buff books” are.
They really are that bad.
Bret
Maybe I am not Jalop enough, but that’s a pretty damn potent powerplant, and that starts low 20s. it will be a pretty awesome car (what’s the weight on these things nowadays?). That said, the article was damn near a Ford press release.
Engineerman
It must be nice to be paid by the word.
rovingardener
What, you don’t think a comparison involving a car they never drove is valid? In the words of the immortal Dean Martin in Back to School, “It was a really big check.”
token_liberal
Ford, winner of Motor Trend’s Advertiser of the Month.
xmdfmk7x
I understand why you’d be upset Ray, but you have to admit, not just anybody could write a complete regurgitation of the Ford spec sheet like that.
oddfish