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Old Jul 17, 2005 | 08:57 AM
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Re: Mustang facelift for 2008 model year?

Originally Posted by bossco
FIREBIRD.--->insert machine gun emoticon here<--- don't waste the development money on two cars. Camaros will be be much better if they dont have to share the funds.

I like Firebirds, I really do (well Formula birds atleast), but they need to stay dead and buried instead of leeching off of the Camaro.
The problem is then Pontiac which is GM's second biggest selling brand and its street performance division would likely end up being phased out. Pontiac has been so badly managed by GM in the last few years that it's in steep decline. One screw-up was getting rid of the Firebird.

And if the Camaro is based on Pontiac's Solstice platform, then I'd say Chev is leeching off Pontiac. Just like it did with the 1st gen Camaro, which was built on the 1966 Pontiac Tempest platform.

I like Firebird's, obviously because I own two of them. I like Camaros too. But next to a Firebird, a Camaro looks bland.
Old Jul 17, 2005 | 09:23 AM
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Re: Mustang facelift for 2008 model year?

Originally Posted by Dwarf Killer

And if the Camaro is based on Pontiac's Solstice platform, then I'd say Chev is leeching off Pontiac. Just like it did with the 1st gen Camaro, which was built on the 1966 Pontiac Tempest platform.
You really don't know what you are talking about. The Camaro was based off the "new" Chevy II/Nova, not a pontiac. The Firebird was a late "gift" to pontiac after GM killed DeLorean's Banshee, which was basically a Corvette clone.
Old Jul 17, 2005 | 10:19 AM
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Re: Mustang facelift for 2008 model year?

Originally Posted by Dwarf Killer

And if the Camaro is based on Pontiac's Solstice platform, then I'd say Chev is leeching off Pontiac. Just like it did with the 1st gen Camaro, which was built on the 1966 Pontiac Tempest platform.
ummmmmmmmmmmwhaaaat?????????
Old Jul 17, 2005 | 10:56 AM
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Re: Mustang facelift for 2008 model year?

Originally Posted by AronZ28
The reason the Mustang and most newer cars look bigger is the higher roof and waist line. Cars have gotten taller in recent years, a look I really don't care for. Low and wide is how I like my cars.
Agreed X1,000,000...The new Mustang absolutely does not feel sporty. The wierd thing is that even though you sit up so high, the waistline on the car is so high that you can't really put your arm on the window sill w/o it being at eye level, (I'm about 6 ft. tall). It just feels really weird
Old Jul 17, 2005 | 12:26 PM
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Re: Mustang facelift for 2008 model year?

Originally Posted by Dwarf Killer
And if the Camaro is based on Pontiac's Solstice platform, then I'd say Chev is leeching off Pontiac. Just like it did with the 1st gen Camaro, which was built on the 1966 Pontiac Tempest platform.



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Old Jul 17, 2005 | 02:21 PM
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Re: Mustang facelift for 2008 model year?

For those of you that don't know Dwarf Killer, he posts as Black R/A on LS1.com - primarily in the "Fords and Foreign" Forum. LS1.com has been down for a few days, which is likely why you're seeing him here a little extra. He posts solely to get a rise out of folks (and some are dumb enough to fall for it). Judging by some of the stuff he posted above (Firebird, groupie, etc), he's trying to do the same thing in this Forum.

You're wasting your time replying to him/her/it. I wasted a total of about 5 minutes replying to three of his posts already...but I'm used to it...err...him.

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Old Jul 17, 2005 | 03:21 PM
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Re: Mustang facelift for 2008 model year?

Originally Posted by Bob Cosby
For those of you that don't know Dwarf Killer, he posts as Black R/A on LS1.com - primarily in the "Fords and Foreign" Forum. LS1.com has been down for a few days, which is likely why you're seeing him here a little extra. He posts solely to get a rise out of folks (and some are dumb enough to fall for it). Judging by some of the stuff he posted above (Firebird, groupie, etc), he's trying to do the same thing in this Forum.

You're wasting your time replying to him/her/it. I wasted a total of about 5 minutes replying to three of his posts already...but I'm used to it...err...him.
That's a flame Bob. You're just mad because I made fun of your favorite car. And there is no LS1.com anymore. They lost the whole database.

You'll have to excuse Bob. He really hates the way I rubbed his nose in it for so long. I made a fool out of him so many times, he feels compelled to follow me around trying to discredit me. Typical Ford guy. Always pretending he didn't lose.
Old Jul 17, 2005 | 05:56 PM
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Re: Mustang facelift for 2008 model year?

Originally Posted by Z284ever
What about the suspension upgrade that Martens mentioned earlier this year?


Wait, can I be in the winkie club???
Old Jul 17, 2005 | 06:15 PM
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Re: Mustang facelift for 2008 model year?

Originally Posted by Threxx
I'm just waiting for the next complete ground-up makeover and hoping they go back to a modern look. I can't stand this retro crap look they have now... especially in the interior.

Hell...if the Fox Body Mustang is any indicator...the current one will be around another 25 years. By the time they do redesign it, they will be able make a retro version of the Fox Chassis.

With what GM has in the pipline though...I really can't make jokes about Retro
Old Jul 17, 2005 | 06:16 PM
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Re: Mustang facelift for 2008 model year?

Originally Posted by WERM
The 4th gen was anything but a "small and lightweight package". When it was introduced in 1993 (classed as a subcompact) it was 9" longer then the family hauling taurus. When it was discontinued in 2002, it had the longest doors of any car sold in the US.
I was refering to the external dimensions of the engine, not the size of the car itself.

That's what I get for typing faster than I think......My bad.
Old Jul 17, 2005 | 07:14 PM
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Re: Mustang facelift for 2008 model year?

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Wait, can I be in the winkie club???
You are in, my man. Your decoder ring is enroute.
Old Jul 17, 2005 | 08:32 PM
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Re: Mustang facelift for 2008 model year?

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You are in, my man. Your decoder ring is enroute.
Yippee!

Where is Bob so I can torment him.
Old Jul 17, 2005 | 09:53 PM
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Re: Mustang facelift for 2008 model year?

Could I get a clarification, please? Was that "winkie club" or "twinkie club"?

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