Nonsense. No one "needs" a muscle car.
Although I happen to have a 2019 GT350, I always like the Bullitt versions. Was in Milan last weekend heading for dinner and happened to come across someone who was loading the trunk in their 2019 Bullitt. Had not seen any Mustangs during last weeks Italian car and motorcycle escapade that I was on last week.Okay, now that I got your attention, I think it's time to discuss the massive misstep that Ford has made with the S650 - which is the new dashboard.
Personally I think it is atrocious. It has completely ruined one of the key elements that makes a Mustang interior a Mustang and makes it look like any other Mercedes, BMW or Korean SUV.
Now I know that it's the industry trend, everyone is doing it, idiot millennial consumers can't live without it, bla di bla. But the fact to the matter is that this is supposed to be a Mustang and a Mustang has very distinctive design characteristics. Characteristics that Ford marketing brass can't stop talking about when it comes to praising the new design. So why in the world did they feel the need to do away with one of the most important of those very characteristics, which is the beautiful symmetric double brow dash? This is completely wrong. It serves no purpose other than cutting costs on HVAC and other switch gear, and one switch at a time it destroys ergonomics and makes the car unsafer to operate.
It is not out of the blue that other brands who started this stupid fad (like Audi) and who were criticized from day one on the ergonomic repercussions are already reversing this policy and bringing physical switches back in their latest releases. Ford however is running at the back of the field and wasting their time on fancy graphics for switching drive modes, instead of designing an even better positioned toggle switch.
No Mustang driver needs a massive tablet in their car. When you drive a Mustang you are concentrating on driving, on the road and your surroundings. The nicely integrated Sync2/3 screen of S550 did the job perfectly well. In the Mach-E they even did a wonderful and creative job on integrating a soundbar in the double brow, a truly innovative piece of design progress. But instead of bringing that into S650 we get this generic dud and now have to live in a world where Mach-E has a more true to Mustang dashboard that the real Mustang.
This is a disaster.
2? old timer. gotta upgrade man! I have 5 pc screens+ my phone in front of me atm, working from home.
I bought my 19' GTCS when I was 67 so us old folks like glass to. Actually anyone that bought a 201A or 401A likes glass and there are plenty of those. Also a lot of "kids" do not want cars period and very few want a gas guzzling V8 2 door coupe.
You do realize that the vast majority of Mustang owners are not hard core enthusiasts. This car is designed for the masses. Who, by the way, will love it.
I foresee a large increase in the purchases of ESP's.
Right, because alot of kids are going to be spending $60k on fancy performance cars. Millennials can barely get out of their parents basement, but they're going to be worried about how much glass their $60k car has?
Where are these kids who can afford impractical $50k+ cars? Most of the millennials I know are too busy saving like Scrooge McDuck because the cost of everything from college to housing to transportation is becoming untenable for those who donāt already have accumulated wealth. The cars they drive are full of rust, have likely been in an accident, and are questionably safe. To put it plainly, they could less about cars.
