This thing just revs all day. 7400 rpm redline.
All right it's post Labor Day here at Monticello Motor Club but summer is not
over yet and today we've got Muscle Beach in the form of the 2019 Ford
Mustang Bullitt
famously named after a very bad Steve McQueen movie but with a very awesome
car chase. The motor again is the star and it's the 5 liter coyote engine and
it is a dandy 480 horsepower up from 460 in a standard Mustang GT
figure about 4.2 seconds zero-to-sixty about twelve point four seconds in a
quarter mile and 163 mile an hour top-end
listen to that V8. Hear it rev. That's the rev-matching feature -- that throttle
blip between gears. It was the car doing that, not me. Heading out under the long
straight here demonstrate the very tall gearing of
this car. I'm still at third gear 112 miles an hour in third now the tall
gearing maybe is an ideal for a track. Might be a couple times where you prefer
a little bit shorter gearing to keep the engine in its sweet spot, but man this
motor. I just can't believe this is an American V8.
Now what is the bullet? It's a two-year model run 2019 and 2020 and you're
basically looking at a Mustang GT premium package with the Level 1
Performance Package, and then a few extra goodies so we're looking at a Torsen
limited slip differential we're looking at six piston Brembo front brakes those
torque thrust style wheels -- vintage looking wheels -- you have all the
things on this new Mustang front end maybe is the thing that's sparking a
little bit of debate it's probably the weakest angle of the car. Now, front end
aside, this is a good-looking Mustang. Really looks great on the street. Really
modern clean great lines. A round Bullitt badge on the back is about the only clue
to the identity of this car. Very very subtle badge treatment inside. You get
this full aluminum trim, the cueball shifter green stitching on the seats,
nice gauge package. Manual only of course, as God intended.
Shifter's nice. The throws are a touch long maybe for some people, but hey
yeah it's a muscle car it's about a nice mechanical feel. Quite good.
Steering, pretty good decent weighting. this engine is a little bit bigger, actually,
in all Mustangs GT's for 2019. Where it was actually just a little bit under
five liters like forty nine hundred fifty three CC's. Now it's almost I think
it's 5149 cc. The Camaro has definitely got some advantage. The old
adage, "no replacement for displacement." At 6.2 liters the Camaro just feels like
it's got torque all the time everywhere, especially down low. This engine you
gotta rev to get the most out of it, but I love revving it, so I just can't get enough
of this Mustang Coyote motor. $51,000. That's a pretty penny for a Mustang but
this is a lot of Mustang style, all around performance, desirability, 480
horsepower, if I failed to mention that, and a great, great versatile 5-liter V8.
The 2019 Ford Mustang Bullitt