rev up your engines, today I'm going to show you why the 2018 Mustang g/t is
worth the $38,000 price tag that this model has, now first and foremost is the
engine, it's a venerable 5 liter v8 but it's got some interesting stuff under
all this plastic, it has a GDI gasoline direct injection, I know a lot of people
are going to say, all those engines they build up carbon in the valves, but not
this engine because it's been redesigned, sure the earlier GDI engines and most
manufacturers, the intake valves would carbon up because the PCV valve all that
air and oil mixture would get on the intake valves, and they would carbon up
over time, because there was no fuel coming in to clean them like in an old
car, like my old Celica, the fuel injectors are on the intake manifold, so
when they spray gas, they spray gas in the intake, it get sucked in over the intake
valves, which cleans them and keeps carbon from building up, so the
older-style GDI's they just spray gas directly into the combustion chamber and
the intake valves who get clogged up with carbon, which was a real mess, but
not in this Mustang, when you take this beauty cover off, you can see that Ford
has figured that problem out, what they've done is they put regular fuel
injectors eight of them on the intake to spray gas on the intake valve, then deep
inside the engine they have eight GDI injectors for the gasoline direct
injection system, so what you have here is a combo, to keep the valve from
getting carboned up, sometimes the fuel injectors on the intakes spray to clean them up
and then when you need the best power and gas mileage, it uses the GDI
injectors, all run by computers, so you end up getting the best gas mileage, the
best power, and the cleanest engine all rolled into one, or I should say all
rolled up into 460 horsepower, now this model has the optional 10 speed
automatic transmission, and you might say automatic transmission in a Mustang ahh,
well if you have a road tested one of these you'd stop saying ahhh, this baby
is computer-controlled, and its various mode you can set on it
and even though you might think you really know how to drive a stick-shift, the
computer that runs thing, if you put it in track mode, it is
going to shift and drive a lot faster than you can, the computer is much faster
and smarter than you are, but if you don't think this automatic has power
check this out, if you don't believe me, look it's got paddle shifters, minus on this side
and plus on this side, so you can shift it yourself if you feel like trying to
beat the computer, me I just use the drive mode, normal, sport +, track, that's only
for the track, it's even got a drag strip mode for
doing burnouts, and the snow wet in case it's snowing or raining, so you can drive
normal as fast as you want, and realize that in a normal mode, it has three
overdrive gears, so it's going to get decent gas mileage I drove this thing on
the highway going to speed limit 65, and it got like 24 miles a gallon, which for a
460 horsepower engine is decent gas mileage, and it's got a nice pony
interior, hey my wife usually doesn't like sports cars, but we took the drive
down to Galveston, she loved these comfy seats, she said they were one of the most
comfortable seats she's ever had in a car, it's been updated look it's got
independent suspension now, and CV driveshafts, and some of the purists are going to say, oh I
want that solid rear axle, Hey once you've driven one of these they
handle better, the computers control the drive better, it really is a better
system, sometimes it's good to get out of the dinosaur ages
now that's a classic Mustang sound on this one, but there are available other
engines and other models that have what are flat cranks like a Ferrari
and they make an even more aggressive sound, but this is the classic sound and
I like the classic sound, hey they make a really good sound, they're loud but
they're not outrageous, they're not like one of those guys in a Porsche or
Ferrari where they're backfiring while they're down shifting and just sound
like all the racket in the world's coming loose, these make a nice throaty sound
and it has really good suspension system that's also run by computers, say you go
to the drag strip mode and you're doing a burnout going down the drag strip, it
sets it so the suspension goes right so it doesn't pull up too high, I was
really impressed by how it went on the track and then how nice it rode on the
road, just an all-round car, a car that can do all things really well, sure you could
put a supercharger on it and put more horsepower and stuff like that, but
really, 460 horsepower is quite a bit of power as it stands, and the looks, hey
classic Mustang, nothing is exactly the same as a Mustang, they always got that
little bit of something that the other cars don't have, so now you know what
you get for $38,000, and if you're willing to spend that price, ah odds are
your going to be happy, so if you never want to miss another one
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