Well, the Cobra may be having indigestion and gas problems due to it's iron lung right now, but I just read a couple articles about the NA modular wonder coming to life.

An article on Mustang Weekly shows the Mach I actually coming off the line. These are pre-production for line testing and will likely go to journalistic duties, but the actual production begins November 11th according to same source.

Maybe the NA car will come off without any glitches... I hope so!

 

Hmmm, I'll have to see the car in person but god I have always thought the front end on the current mustang is so ugly.

 

hope there are no glitches they built the same car in 96.

 

Hehehe... Not quite, but almost.

I really like the Mach 1. I might even get one if they decide to make it a drop-top.

 

Hehehe... Not quite, but almost.

close enough that they shouldn't have any glitches.

 

I hope Ford doesn't make a drop top Mach 1... there were no original Mach 1 convt. so why should they make a new one?

 

Have you ever looked at the front of your car? Most camaro's look like ***.

 

Let's hope they test them thoroughly this time! Even before the current (and mysterious) 03 Cobra production stoppage, I had read of chronic front end misalignments, plugged cats, internal failures and so on with the new Cobra. Couple this with the 1999 over-rating fiasco, and Ford now has a serious credibility gap to overcome.

Big Daddy - I happen to agree with the other poster about the Mustang front end. In fact, this is the first time I have seen the Mach I hood from the front, and I frankly do not like it. It's way to "overinflated"... much more so even than my T/A. And I cannot warm up to the Mach I's wheels... so flat they seem to belong on a FWD Focus. The styling of LS1 Camaros and Firebirds are head and shoulders above the current Mustang herd in my book....

 

I like that hood.

 

I think the shaker scoop is cool (until you open the hood and see the goofy black-snake inlet tunnel). But it's the puffed-up-on-steroids curvature of the hood itself that looks goofy to me. Don't ask me though... I also think the fake scoop on the GT's hood is lame, but the GT is a success for Ford. Just one person's opinion.

 

I think the Mach I is a nice, clean package. Only thing that gets me about the hood scoop is that it looks too small. Maybe its just the angle of the pictures I've seen.

 

Too bad they didnt just have the shaker sticking out of the basically stock hood without having 3 different levels.

 

Ah, it'll only be a while before issues and recalls start for this 1.

 

Good One!

 

Actually the Cobras production halt was planned and is NORMAL. BON took things out of prespective and made it seem like it was due to a quality issue or problem with the new Cobras when it wasn't.