rev up your engines, today I tell you the truth about the Mustang EcoBoost
four-cylinder engine Mustang in this case it's a 2016 I'm gonna show you what
I like about it what I don't like about it we'll start with the likes well it's
a new aggressive Mustang style I like to style it's got a lot of the classic
ideas in it it's a nice looking car there's no arguing that the upgraded
suspension from the all the ones it's a real improvement they really handle well
and under the hood this one that's a four-cylinder engine and you might say
ah the four-cylinder engine well this four-cylinder engine puts out 310
horsepower and to give you a comparison a 66 Mustang v8 stock put out
164 horsepower this puts up a lot more than that 310 and when you go
inside it's a classic Mustang set up for the old fashioned style gauges
they're still digital but they look analog and this particular one has
almost ninety three thousand miles on starts right up now granted it doesn't
make the noise of a v8 one does
but with 301 horsepower it's got pulling here get up and go it is all the modern
conveniences steering column controls now this particular one has a six-speed
automatic transmission I would love the standard myself but this is a 6-speed
automatic but it does have the paddle shifters so you can paddle shift it and
if you're talking to newer one you can get that 10 speed automatic that Ford
and Chevy jointly put together and that of course they fell apart about that
tends to be too automatic I do have to say the ones I've driven I can drive
faster knows then I can manually shift it myself the computers on those have
insane control they have various levels of driving and are all set up to shift
different ways to get more power or better gas mileage it gets about 31
miles a gallon on the highway if you don't dog it so it actually does
get good gas mileage the last time I seriously draw 2016 Mustang they had a
v8 engine I only got about eight miles a gallon driving the thing around because
I drove it really hard four cylinder engines they do get better gas mileage
an interesting thing about this setup is you got 301 horsepower if you run it on
premium gas but if you're running on regular gas it will run perfectly fine
it'll just lose a few of those ponies and be 200 something horsepower you
don't want to buy premium gas that'll run perfectly fine on regular gas it
just won't have as much speed and they're the choice is yours so you're
not stuck with you always have to use regular gas but on the other hand it's
also the negative aspects it's a four-cylinder engine revs higher
it uses a turbocharger to get more power and gasoline direct injection there's a
lot extra pressure now so far this one's got like 90,000 miles not if customers
had no problems with its work perfectly fine it does a lot of highway driving on
it and it's held up quite well but realize as they age a highly stressed
four-cylinder engine with extremely high pressure gasoline direct injection a
turbocharger if you drive it hard yes it is going to wear out faster than a
normal engine especially a v8 engine that doesn't have the strain because yes
as four-cylinder engine does have horsepower and torque
it actually has more torque than it does horsepower but that's done at higher
rpms which of course where's the engine out faster just like the gas mileage you
can get 31 miles again if you drive this thing going 60 miles on a highway just
cruising but not if you're accelerating all the time slam the brakes accelerating
you'll never get that kind of gas mileage now the newer 10 speed
automatics that come with these four cylinder turbos
they get even better gas mileage because out of those 10 speeds three of them are
overdrive speeds so on the highway it gets even better gas mileage than this
one and on the more modern one with that fancy 10 speed automatic that's the same
10 speed automatic they put in their pickup trucks and then the Mustangs it's
the big v8 engines so it has no problem taking the power this four-cylinder
engine you're not gonna over tax it but with this six speed automatic my
customer owns this it's a relatively conservative driver it still shifts
perfectly fine but I've had customers there were much more aggressive drivers
and the 6-speed automatic is the first thing that's gonna wear out if you put
those 301 ponies all the time Flooring it with the 6-speed automatic transmission
but the Newer one with the 10 speed automatic no they can take it I've got
customers the big trucks and the big v8 Mustangs with those ten speed automatics
the only problem they had was originally they're a little software glitch had to
reprogram but the transmissions themselves are really solid units and hooking them up
to a four-cylinder engine is no problem of course they're easier to work on
there's actually working space look at us I get all kinds of room in here for
working on it you do have to work on if you want to modify it there's a lot of
room to do work on because let's face it there's Mustang it was designed to fit a
v8 engine and you put a four-cylinder you're gonna have a lot of working space
it's not all cramped in and really go back years ago when they made the little
Mustangs that had the four-cylinder engine in it man those were terrible
engines they could barely get out of the wrong way they just as far as I was
concerned weren't real Mustangs but with 301 horsepower on this it certainly is a
real mustang big discs on the front and in the back and if you're into
modifications these babies can be modified to the hilt Mustangs have
always been upgradable vehicles you could put whatever you want you want to
put carbon-fiber brakes whatever you want to do off it's a bail wolf
these if you want if you know you can just drive it around close up look the
same as I the other Mustang got the pony's got the aggressive headlights
great-looking car and when you consider the new ones 2020 this is twenty five
thousand dollars starting with the four-cylinder engine it pretty much
started thirty five thousand dollars with the v8 engine in them cuz you'd be
saving almost $10,000 car looks exactly the same
most of the feature the same happy with three hundred some horsepower anyways
go ahead get the four banger you can get it with the same really good ten speed
automatic transmission f4 or 8 either way they still look like Mustangs
and if you're talking about a brand new one the new four-cylinder once put out
330 horsepower if you get the high output four-cylinder engine
plenty enough horsepower just realize like I always warn people you can have insane
power or you can have great gas mileage but you can't combine both if you drive this
conservatively yes you can get 30 something miles a gallon on a highway
but not if you drive really aggressively all the time so now you know the truth
about these four-cylinder EcoBoost Mustangs and here's some bonus questions
and answers here's some breaking news for your Toyota Supra fans or I should
say BMW roadster fans it looks like Toyota is going to
announce during the Daytona race cuz Toyota's a big sponsor there that
they're gonna be able to buy a four-cylinder Toyota Supra also known as
BMW roadster here in the United States now this is no big shocker they already
sell them in Japan it's a course of BMW four-cylinder engine it's in a BMW
builds the cars a fancy one that they sell in Japan four cylinder that has 255
horsepower there's also a smaller version that's 225 and I'm sure they'll
sell only the higher one in the United States to me this is really kind of bizarre
because big thing about the Supra was that they had a six cylinder engine and
now I'm figuring off or a four cylinder version the Supra instead of the BMW six
I'm sure their not going to give them away I saw the price tag on the new supra at the auto
show a couple weeks ago man I was lambasted by what they're asking for
I guess they're too much so now they're gonna sell the force on the version
that's a little bit cheaper just realize as I said before this isn't really a
Toyota it's a BMW it's made by BMW and a BMW factory they are gonna be selling
them how it looks like they're gonna make an announcement in a week or two
PC 36 says scotty I have a 2014 VW GTI it's 40,000 miles about two years ago
use I owe 13,000 on it now the prior owner had the water pump replaced under
warranty and the past summer the turbo went out
but it was covered under the seven-year warranty is gonna be up soon
should I pay it off and keep it or should I sell it waiting cover alone
solid hey come on let's use our heads people I tell you what garbage
Volkswagen is making look at that you having it as 40,000 miles now and before
it had 40,000 miles the water pump point out that turbocharger went out they are
just making these things like crap they market the heck out of them and they
sell a lot of them but you ask any honest mechanic like myself they'll tell you
the truth that they are endless money pits and not just when I'm saying
here my own customers every single customer of mine in the last 20 years
whoever bought a Volkswagen said Scotty I'll never buy another Volkswagen again
it was a rolling pile of crap as it aged now yeah they're fun to drive when
they're new with a turbo and everything but they fall apart and it
cost a fortune to fix get rid of that Volkswagen now
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