Posted by site admin on 10 Sep 2007
The latest Mustang has been a hit, both with buyers and tuners ever since it arrived, and there are plans to create a facelifted Mustang in mid 2009 for the 2010 model year. The big rumour is that the car will have a new V8 with much more power and torque. This would be the new BOSS engine which will probably be available in two displacements, 5.8 and 6.2 liters. Really that’s what the Mustang needs because cars such as the Camaro and Chrysler challenger will have engines in that class, and the Mustang could be left behind.
The entry level engine choice would be the 3.5 265 horsepower Duratec V6 from the Taurus, although there is a 3.7 liter Duratec V6 being developed for future applications
A wild card is the TwinForce V6 engine that appeared under the hood of the Lincoln MK-R concept car – a twin turbo 3.5 litre V6 that produces up to 400 horsepower. That option seems to be fairly popular around the forums, and while we can’t see it replacing the V8 it could be the basis of a special edition.
The new V8 engine is likely to have cylinder deactivation technology for better fuel economy, and is thought to be a bigger version of the overhead cam modular engine family. Ford has denied that the engine will have cylinder deactivation, but the company is working on such a system in certain engines. Cylinder deactivation shuts down up to half the cylinders in a V8 when the engine is not under load, and both Chrysler and GM have been able to achieve fuel savings using this technology.
With Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards about to be raised, it would be stupid of Ford not to be thinking about fuel saving technologies, especially on relatively high volume sellers like the Mustang.
As far as styling goes, the 2010 Mustang will include many features already seen on the Guigiaro Mustang concept that showed up at the 2006 Los Angeles Motor Show last year. Expect a much more sharp edged but sleek appearance to the car, especially since it’s competing with the extremely edgy new Camaro. A couple of spy pics have surfaced that show the nose of the car being remarkably close in styling to that of the concept. It’s expected that the rear of the car will have more ‘muscular’ shoulders to complement the sharp styling of the front end.
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